Economic Turmoil and Change

Only months after the arrest of Shepard Fairey, the Obama “Hope” poster artist who’s battling the Associated Press over copyright issues, another guerilla artist is facing charges – this time for creating a hitchhiking “monster” out of stolen orange traffic … Continue reading →

Enduring Vision Award Winner Kevin Locke. (Photo courtesy of Ixtlan Artists Group) The Bush Foundation on Monday announced $1 million in awards to individual artists in the region, including three $100,000 recipients of its Enduring Vision Award, designed to propel … Continue reading →

The James Irvine Foundation will award $3.35 this year in the form of innovation grants, which CEO James Canales characterizes as “risk capital” to spur a strategic rethinking of the way these organizations deliver art. The grants grew out of … Continue reading →

New data out today from the U.S. Department of Education’s National Assessment of Educational Progress, or NAEP, may make America’s arts instructors kind of blue: In the past decade or so, middle-schoolers have made little progress in how much they … Continue reading →

The Low-profit Limited Liability Company (or L3C), is intended for companies that put their missions before profits. The structure lets them qualify for “program-related investments” from foundations—loans or investments that further a foundation’s goals and also may yield financial returns. … Continue reading →

Two separate national surveys gauging youth and adult participation in the arts reported yesterday that visits to art museums are declining. A study of nearly 4,000 eighth-grade students, part of the National Assessment of Educational Progress, found dwindling field trips … Continue reading →

Nonprofit TechSoup.org received the 2008 ArtsTech Award from Carnegie Mellon University in recognition of product donations enabling the Arts to save over $100 million in expenses to date. TechSoup.org is a 501(c)3 making software donations to nonprofits from 35 major … Continue reading →

In today’s economy, it’s increasingly difficult to elicit donations for charitable causes – but new research from Dr. Anat Bracha of the Eitan Berglas School of Economics at Tel Aviv University can provide fundraising organizations with a potent tool. A … Continue reading →

From the New York Times Support for the arts, in their view, is not simply a matter of cultural philanthropy, it’s also a smart and necessary way to sustain a vibrant urban environment, to keep any city from becoming a … Continue reading →

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