"Bill Gates has donated more than $5 billion to improve U.S. schools. But he sees little bang for all those bucks.
Grantmakers in the Arts
September 26, 2011 by Steve
The Dodge Foundation’s 2012 guidelines reflect a continuing evolution of grantmaking in the areas of the Arts, Education, Environment and Media. For the Arts:
Pursue and demonstrate the highest standards of artistic excellence in the performing and visual arts; enhance the cultural health and richness of communities; inspire learning and understanding; and contribute to New Jersey’s creative economy.
September 22, 2011 by Steve
PBS Newshour interviews the authors of the book Give Smart: Philanthropy That Gets Results:
Even in a sluggish economy, Americans still give away billions of dollars to charitable causes. With this in mind, Judy Woodruff spoke with the authors of a new book aimed at making charitable giving more effective. Titled Give Smart: Philanthropy That Gets Results, the book is motivated by new thinking about the urgency of getting the most out of every dollar given away.
One author is Tom Tierney, co-founder of the Bridgespan Group, a nonprofit focused on helping donors and nonprofit leaders to act in ways that accelerate social change. The other is Joel Fleishman, a Duke University professor of law and public policy, and a long-time expert on philanthropy.
September 21, 2011 by Steve
California has 11,000 arts and culture nonprofits, a number that places the state ahead of most nations in the world. Californians are more likely to participate than other Americans — but arts involvement and nonprofit organizations are unevenly spread across California’s geographic and demographic communities.
New findings generated by Markusen Economic Research and commissioned by The James Irvine Foundation offer fresh illustrations of the California nonprofit arts sector and the people who take part in it. Released today, California’s Arts and Cultural Ecology details the research and its findings.
September 21, 2011 by Steve
From John M. Eger at Huffington Post:
...the ArtPlace idea is big, certainly bigger than anything ever done before, and has the potential to be a "game changer" if—and it's still an if in many cities—ArtPlace not only gets artists and art and cultural organizations and community leaders to think differently about renewing their downtowns, but acts as the catalyst America so badly needs to awaken to the challenges of working, playing and living in a new economy—a creative and innovative economy.
September 21, 2011 by Steve
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment (TCFHE) and the National Association for Music Education (NAfME) on September 9 announced GLEE Give a Note, a campaign to donate $1 million to school arts programs across the country. Eligible high schools are invited to submit videos about why their school deserves a grant at www.GleeGiveANote.com. In December 2011, after two rounds of voting, Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment will name the 73 schools that will receive grants ranging from $10,000 to $50,000.
September 21, 2011 by Steve
From Gail Johnson at The Globe and Mail:
Increasingly, demographic diversity—ethnic, gender, sexual, religious and so on—is proving crucial to the success of local economies. In other words, it’s no longer enough for cities to subscribe to the “if you build it, they will come” theory to attract top talent. Rather, they need to roll out the welcome mat to one and all.
“There’s no question about it any more; one of the greatest competitive advantages for any city is tolerance,” says Tom Jones, director of Smart City Consulting in Memphis, Tenn.
September 21, 2011 by Steve
The Metropolitan Museum’s concurrent presentation of four acclaimed and widely attended exhibitions in the summer 2011 season generated $908 million in spending by regional, national, and international tourists to New York, according to a visitor survey the Museum released on September 12. Using the industry standard for calculating tax revenue impact, the study found that the direct tax benefit to the City and State from out-of-town visitors to the Museum totaled some $90.8 million.