Why Arts? Making the Case

2008, 171 pages. WolfBrown, Red Maple Court, 10627 Jones Street, Suite 301A, Fairfax, VA, 22030, (703) 591-3661, www.wolfbrown.com

http://www.wolfbrown.com/images/books/ImpactStudyFinalVersionFullReport.pdf

2008, 49 pages. Bush Foundation, 332 Minnesota Street, Suite E-900, Saint Paul, MN, 55101, (651) 227-0891, www.bushfoundation.org

http://www.bushfoundation.org/publications/BushFellowsReport.pdf

2008, 265 pages. Center for Cultural Innovation, 244 S. San Pedro Street, Suite 401, Los Angeles, CA, 90012, (213) 687-8577, www.cciarts.org

This resource guide is written for working artists across the U.S, providing information and advice for the "self-employed creative entrepreneur." Included are basic principles behind career and business planning, marketing and promotions, budgeting and money management, legal issues relevant to artists, and financing for creative work.

2007, 235 pages. National Guild of Community Schools of the Arts, 520 8th Avenue, Suite 302, New York NY, 10018, (212) 268-3337, www.nationalguild.org

2008, 33 pages. Grantcraft, The Ford Foundation, 320 East 43rd Street, New York, NY, 10017,
(212) 573-4879, www.grantcraft.org

http://www.grantcraft.org/pdfs/guide_gti.pdf

2007, 103 pages. University of New South Wales Press Ltd, Sydney, Australia www.unswpress.com.au (publisher); Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, Paddington NSW (sponsor). Available through Hopkins Fulfillment Services, University of Washington Press, (800) 537-5487

2008, 328 pages. Published by University of California Press

2007, 86 pages. The Center for Arts Education, 14 Penn Plaza, 225 West 34th Street, NY, NY 10122, www.cae-nyc.org

2008, 141 pages. Council on Foundations, 2121 Crystal Drive, Suite 700, Arlington, VA 22202 (703) 879-0600, www.cof.org

This robust report features a series of essays on aspects of rural philanthropy from a diverse range of perspectives. The conclusion, by Sherece Y. West, alone is worth the price of admission. The report concludes with a summary of funding recommendations from the Council on Foundations Conference on Philanthropy and Rural America: A 21st Century Agenda, held in August 2007 in Montana.

Arts and education grantmakers at an historic gathering in Santa Fe in October of 2007 agreed on the need to forge a new vision for public education in the United States and to collectively explore how the arts can help shape and realize that vision.

Convened by Grantmakers in the Arts and Grantmakers for Education, more than 100 foundation representatives met formally for the first time under the aegis of their two affinity organizations to debate and discuss the role of the arts in education.