Advocacy and Public Policy

November 12, 2009 by Steve

Independent Sector and the Foundation Center have partnered in developing this research, resulting in a quantitative study of social justice funding by 1,000 of the largest private and community foundations in the U.S.

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April 30, 2009 by admin

2008, 237 pages. Wiley, 10475 Crosspoint Boulevard, Indianapolis, IN, 46256, 877-762-2974, http://www.wiley.com

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April 30, 2009 by admin

2008, 51 pages. SRI International, 333 Ravenswood Avenue, Menlo Park, CA, 94025, 650-859-2000, www.sri.com

http://policyweb.sri.com/cep/publications/AnUnfinishedCanvasDistrictCapacityAndNewFunds.pdf

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April 30, 2009 by admin
The headline and subhead above were not written by an arts grantmaker making a case to a board for the value of the arts in a foundation's portfolio or by an arts advocate speaking to a legislature about why the arts belong in a state budget. The headings come directly from The Guardian and Guardian Weekly of London, and Larry Elliott is The Guardian's economics editor. In the article that follows, Elliott refers to a new book, t by Richard Bronk of the London School of Economics and Political Science, published by Cambridge University Press.
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April 30, 2009 by admin
All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.
—Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Strength to Love, 1963
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April 30, 2009 by admin
Bill Ivey chaired the National Endowment for the Arts from 1998 through 2001, directed the Country Music Foundation from 1971 to 1998, and was twice elected chairman of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. He presently serves as founding director of the Curb Center for Art, Enterprise, and Public Policy at Vanderbilt University.
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April 30, 2009 by admin
Claudine Brown wants us to shore ourselves up with knowledge and examples of how much arts and culture are linked to everything we do. With this in mind, she offers us her own kit bag of reasons for sustaining arts and culture programs—and it's a big bag.
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April 30, 2009 by admin
Historical data do not mean anything in this situation. There is no blueprint and there is no network. We are doing the best we can with a combination of hard facts and intuition. Every line item is up for grabs; every $1,000 is material. How we feel about it all depends on which newspaper we read that morning.
—Managing Director, large performing arts group

Introduction

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April 30, 2009 by admin
The following piece is excerpted from the second of a two-part article written for the Community Arts Network, “The New New Deal.” Part one, published in December 2008, was titled, “the New New Deal: Public Service Jobs for Artists.” It described some of the things artists could do with public-service jobs. This excerpt is from part two, published February 24, 2009, “A New WPA for Artists: How and Why.” In this excerpt, Goldbard takes up the question of “why,” what are all the good reasons to support a new WPA for artists.
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April 30, 2009 by admin

2007, 56 pages. Urban Institute, 2100 M Street NW, Washington, D.C., 20037, 202-833-7200, www.urban.org

http://www.urban.org/UploadedPDF/1001176_asd_case.pdf

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