From John M. Eger at Huffington Post:
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Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment (TCFHE) and the National Association for Music Education (NAfME) on September 9 announced GLEE Give a Note, a campaign to donate $1 million to school arts programs across the country. Eligible high schools are invited to submit videos about why their school deserves a grant at www.GleeGiveANote.com. In December 2011, after two rounds of voting, Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment will name the 73 schools that will receive grants ranging from $10,000 to $50,000.
From Gail Johnson at The Globe and Mail:
“There’s no question about it any more; one of the greatest competitive advantages for any city is tolerance,” says Tom Jones, director of Smart City Consulting in Memphis, Tenn.
The Metropolitan Museum’s concurrent presentation of four acclaimed and widely attended exhibitions in the summer 2011 season generated $908 million in spending by regional, national, and international tourists to New York, according to a visitor survey the Museum released on September 12. Using the industry standard for calculating tax revenue impact, the study found that the direct tax benefit to the City and State from out-of-town visitors to the Museum totaled some $90.8 million.
From Culture Monster at the Los Angeles Times:
Matt Silverman of Mashable holds a Q&A with Kiva CEO Matt Flannery:
Richard Kessler reports in on his blog, Dewey 21C:
Alliance for Justice has released Influencing Public Policy in the Digital Age: The Law of Online Lobbying and Election-related Activities. This publication was created to address the many questions nonprofit organizations have about advocacy in the new environment of the Internet and social media. It aims to help ensure that nonprofit advocates stay within the law and to demonstrate that robust participation in our nation's democratic process is not just possible, but actually enhanced by these new technologies.
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation today named 22 new MacArthur Fellows for 2011. Working across a broad spectrum of endeavors, the Fellows include an architect, a sports medicine researcher, a cellist, a developmental biologist, a radio producer, a neuropathologist, a conservator, a poet, a technologist, and a public historian. All were selected for their creativity, originality, and potential to make important contributions in the future.
From Huffington Post Arts blog: