The nonprofit provides evidence of leadership through focusing externally and mobilizing resources for the mission.
This organization mobilizes for mission in the following ways:
What are this organization’s external mobilizaton efforts?
Continuity of artistic engagement with our participants is critical for sustained outcomes around well-being. Therefore, we weave our offerings into local arts ecosystems by delivering the majority of our programs in collaboration with our partners — and we encourage our alumni to participate in partners’ programming.
ASAP conducts research to monitor, evaluate, and improve our programming and to share best practices on community arts initiatives serving veterans. We publicly share the findings of our research so other organizations may learn from our best practices and better serve the military community. Most recently, we published an article on the impact of ASAP’s Comedy Bootcamp in a peer-reviewed academic journal, the International Journal of Humor. The article demonstrated that our comedy graduates experience improvements in self-esteem, social support, depression, and stress, mediated by an increase in self-enhancing humor style.