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Thursday, December 10, the National Endowment for the Arts will release the full report of the 2008 Survey of Public Participation in the Arts, the nation’s largest and most representative study of adults’ arts participation habits. As part of the … Continue reading →

A new $100,000 prize for artists under the age of 35 is being announced on Tuesday by the Victor Pinchuk Foundation, a nonprofit organization founded in 2006 by its namesake Ukrainian billionaire and art collector. The $100,000 award comes with … Continue reading →

Draft 2.0 of the paper Disrupting Philanthropy by Lucy Bernholz with Edward Skloot and Barry Valera is now available online, and the authors are soliciting feedback and comments. Comments can go to via email to lucy [at] blueprintrd [dot] com, … Continue reading →

Ian David Moss dissects the minor kerfluffle around GiveWell and the notorious Charity Navigator rating system for rating charities on their overhead ratio. Read More

ArtsJournal founder and editor Doug McLennan talks with Andrew Taylor, director of the Bolz Center for Arts Administration at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Business. Subjects are community, conversation, and connection around the arts, and the emerging need for … Continue reading →

This week my colleague and friend John McCann reminded me that leadership is a critical element to successful sustainability for organizations. I couldn’t agree with him more. I’ve always been fascinated by the study of leadership. I even wrote an “almost” dissertation on the subject. I say “almost” because it was a master’s program that required a final paper and not an official dissertation. It was still really long with lots of footnotes. The title was “Characteristics of Excellence in Nonprofit Leadership.”

A year ago the Maine Community Foundation, one of the state’s largest philanthropic enterprises, was preparing for hard times ahead. With the stock market crashing and a global recession strengthening its grip, Henry Schmeltzer, who was then the executive director, … Continue reading →

The video archive of the NEA’s Cultural Workforce Forum, a day-long presentation of research by primarily East-coast academics, and short on front-line practitioners, is now available in its entirety. – Tommer Here’s the link to the archive

Craft Emergency Relief Fund has published Studio Protector: An Artist’s Guide to Emergencies. The fun-to-use, indispensable wall guide and companion web site, www.studioprotector.org, is for artists who want to cover their A’s (their art, assets and archives, that is) in … Continue reading →

Through their private foundations, many notable individuals have made significant contributions to help underserved populations and provide support for medical research, green technology, and countless other causes they care about. This new directory, in downloadable PDF format, includes detailed descriptions … Continue reading →