Mission + Values
We believe that everyone has the right to create, experience, and cultivate the arts in our communities.
What We Do and How We Get There
Values
BFF supports the Arts & our Community through Advocacy, Education, Inclusion, Opportunity, and Unique Experiences. AEIOU! (We’d like to buy a vowel!)
Vision
While continuing to build community in Benson and Omaha, BFF envisions using our 10-year history as a guiding template to expand the mission to build community through arts engagement in other neighborhoods and cities.
Belief
We believe that everyone has the right to create, experience, and cultivate the arts in our communities.
BFF Core Values
Here at BFF, we'd like to buy a vowel! Because AEIOU! stands for: Advocacy, Education, Inclusion, Opportunity, and Unique Experiences.
Advocacy
BFF encourages advocating for social justice, positive progression, artist support and retention, and an overall more cohesive and collaborative community.
Education
BFF strives to provide education through workshops, youth engagement, interactive elements, intern programs, and by working with emerging artists, curators, and community activists.
Inclusion
BFF invites all communities and peoples to join in and engage in our projects and programming. Diversity, equity, accessibility and inclusion for all keeps BFF vibrant and flourishing.
Opportunity
BFF gives opportunities to artists, businesses, volunteers, youth, communities and organizations by bringing them together and providing an arena for engagement and interaction.
Unique Experiences
Keepin’ “Benson Bent” & “Good Weird,” BFF encourages originality, novelties, and perhaps unconventional ideas and strategies to support the arts and the neighborhood.
BFF Code of Conduct
The BFF Code of Conduct reflects our daily operations, core values, and overall culture.We expect all volunteers, employees, guests, artists, partners, other representatives,and associated members to abide by this code. Download the BFF Code of Conduct below.
Guiding Principles
When interacting with or under BFF, keep these key principles in mind as guidance for action.
Help Others
Help others through action, interaction, and compassion. Strive to be inclusive and help educate.
Be Creative
Creativity cannot be or come from normalcy and shouldn’t be treated as such.
By opening up our minds and tapping into creativity, we provide unique experiences for the community.
Have Integrity
Work in a dignified and serious manner, throughout all actions - and no matter how unique the action, integrity keeps it relative to the mission. Do unto others...
Be Respectful
We are all in this together, and cannot progress without respect for each other, our surroundings, our belongings, and the community at large.
Enjoy Yourself
Life is too short and it’s later than you think. If you are genuinely enjoying your actions and involvement with BFF, then you are doing the right thing, in the right place, at the right time.
Land Acknowledgment
BFF Omaha acknowledges the historical legacy of colonialism by honoring and paying respect to the land, which was taken by conquest, along with the domination of the people who inhabited the land, and the imposition of white supremacy. We do it to raise greater public consciousness of Native sovereignty and cultural rights as a small step toward equitable relationship and reconciliation.
We acknowledge the historical legacy of colonialism and non-western ways of knowing that holistically link mind, body, spirit, and the human and non-human.
We acknowledge that the space we are in, and the land we are on, are part of who we are and how we know the world. Here in Omaha we are on native UmoHo (Omaha) and Ochethi Sakowin land.
“Ni Bthaska” is the UmoHo term for “flat water.”
Take Our Feedback Survey
You're feedback is VERY important to us. Please take our short survey