For the first time, the National Endowment for the Arts looks at future job prospects for a variety of artist occupations in Artist Employment Projections through 2018. This report examines the projected growth rate for artist occupations through 2018, over which time artist occupations will increase by 11 percent, compared with an overall increase in the labor force of 10 percent.
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Posted on June 30, 2011 by Steve
Posted on June 30, 2011 by Steve
The latest from Craft Emergency Relief Fund Artists' Emergency Resources:
As flooding in Minot, North Dakota becomes the latest focus of our nation’s attention, those of us at CERF+ are taking a moment to reflect on our emergency relief assistance for the first half of 2011. From our view, the floods, tornadoes, wildfires and other natural disasters that have affected much of the country are being felt very deeply by artists. In a typical year natural disasters account for 20% of our assistance to craft artists, but so far this year 34% of our assistance has been for natural disasters.
Posted on June 30, 2011 by Steve
Philanthropic Initiative for Racial Equity will host a webinar on July 27 titled Marking Progress: Evaluating Movement Toward Racial Justice.
This webinar will address challenges, offer examples of current evaluative efforts, and share suggestions to help us ask the right questions from various roles of community activist, advocate, researcher, or funder. More importantly, we will conduct an interactive session to ensure that we hear what funders, activists and others are struggling with or learning in their own evaluations.
Posted on June 29, 2011 by Tommer
(Since this article was published, the SC Senate also voted to override the governor.)
The voting board was mostly green Wednesday as members of the South Carolina House of Representatives overrode the majority of Gov. Nikki Haley’s vetoes.
On Tuesday, Haley vetoed 35 items out of the state’s budget. The vetoes accounted for more than $150 million of the $6 billion state budget.
Posted on June 29, 2011 by Tommer
A fine essay on Blue Avocado by former arts and culture program officer at the San Francisco Foundation, John Killacky.
Posted on June 29, 2011 by Tommer
Nathan James, Seattle Awesome Foundation trustee, has just launched a new blog series on mapping philanthropic trends.
Posted on June 28, 2011 by Tommer
This news from Jonathan Katz at NASAA.
Today, South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley issued a line-item veto of the fiscal year 2012 budget for the South Carolina Arts Commission (SCAC). The legislature now can consider an override, for which there is a successful precedent in South Carolina.
Posted on June 28, 2011 by Steve
Emerging Leaders of New York Arts, the New York City-based networking and professional development group, will host a discussion on Wednesday, June 29, at 6pm titled Data = Sexy: Everything You Wanted to Know (But Were Afraid to Ask) About the Arts’ Love Affair with Numbers. Guests include Esther Robinson, Arthome; Ian David Moss, Fractured Atlas; Aaron Schwartzbord, The Pearl Theatre Company; Anne Coates, Alliance for the Arts; and Arin Sullivan of The Pew Charitable Trusts.
Posted on June 28, 2011 by Steve
The James Irvine Foundation has released details of a revamped strategy for the foundations arts funding:
The Foundation remains deeply committed to the arts throughout California. We have spent the past year surveying the arts landscape, gathering input from grantees and other experts and reviewing the latest research. It has become clear to us that the arts sector in California is undergoing major shifts, due largely to demographic and technological changes, and that these shifts pose long-term challenges and opportunities to nonprofit arts organizations. Our new grantmaking strategy is designed to help these organizations adapt and thrive.
Posted on June 28, 2011 by Steve
Flat Earth Direct, an Australia-based agency focused on fundraising and social action, will host a free webinar on Tuesday, July 19 titled Online fundraising is dead… but online prospecting is alive and well. Presenters are Eric Rardin, Director of nonprofit services at Care2.com, and Jonathon Grapsas is the founder and director at Flat Earth Direct.