From the Associated Press, as reported on NPR:
The Internal Revenue Service said Wednesday that 275,000 organizations have lost their tax-exempt status because they failed to file required annual reports for three straight years.
Grantmakers in the Arts
June 9, 2011 by Abigail
June 9, 2011 by Steve
The John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation has published a new video that promotes and describes the MacArthur Fellows Program (commonly referred to as genius grants). Take a look at this program and hear from some recipients.
June 7, 2011 by Abigail
Rick Wartzman's latest post for Bloomberg Businessweek, here, is a summary of recent writing on funding nonprofit overhead synthesized with his own outlook on the "charitable challenge." Provocative and opinionated, it is worth a read.
June 7, 2011 by Steve
NEA Chairman Rocco Landesman continued his Art Works tour of the US with a visit to the central valley of California. Apparently it's the first ever such visit by an NEA chair. Rocco's host on the visit was Amy Kitchener, who runs the Alliance for California Traditional Arts, while he met with organizations and artists from Fresno, Merced and Modesto.
June 3, 2011 by Steve
A pair of Harvard mathematicians have leveraged the power of Google's massive effort to digitize the world's published text to begin a quantitative analysis of culture, a study they've termed Culturomics. In this video, Erez Lieberman Aiden and Jean-Baptiste Michel—co-founders of the Cultural Observatory at Harvard and Visiting Faculty at Google—show how Culturomics can provide insights about fields as diverse as lexicography, the evolution of grammar, collective memory, the adoption of technology, the pursuit of fame, censorship, and historical epidemiology.
June 2, 2011 by Abigail
Yet another relevant blog I didn't know I should know about: Nonprofit Tech 2.0: A Social Media Guide for Nonprofits. The linked-to post is a survey of the growing array of fundraising websites available to nonprofits and donors. These sites both facilitate giving and help spread the word about a nonprofit's mission and actions.
June 2, 2011 by Steve
The McKnight Foundation has named Minnesota-based dancer and choreographer Ranee Ramaswamy as the 2011 McKnight Distinguished Artist, in recognition of artistic excellence spanning more than three decades. Now in its 14th year, the annual honor includes a $50,000 cash award and recognizes individual Minnesota artists who have made significant contributions to the quality of the state's cultural life.
June 1, 2011 by Steve
Nonprofit Finance Fund has published a new series on the need for and uses of capital in the arts. The materials convey stories and lessons learned from NFF’s $15 million Leading for the Future Initiative, the first national Initiative to deploy a specific kind of investment – change capital – to help arts organizations adapt their programming, operations and finances to thrive in a changed and changing economic and cultural landscape.