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Early in 2004, the Graduate Center of the City of New York convened ten small to mid-sized arts organizations to talk about what had happened to them in an experimental, internet-based project funded by the Ford Foundation. The ten, from across the country, are community-based cultural organizations; they share a commitment to emerging and experimental artists and art forms, and a commitment—equally firm—to their local or nearby communities. Despite their similarities of mission, the ten were not familiar with each other's work.

2004, 25 pages. Published by Day, Berry & Howard Foundation, CityPlace I, Hartford, CT, 06103-3499, www.dbhfoundation.org

Download pdf: http://www.independentsector.org/PDFs/counterterrorism.pdf

2004, 80 pages. Published by New Visions Philanthropic Research and Development, 322 LaVerne Avenue, Mill Valley, CA, 94941, 415-388-1222, info@newvisionsprd, www.newvisionsprd.org

Download pdf: http://www.newvisionsprd.org/Downloads/form.asp

2004, 77 pages. Published by Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees, PO Box 1100, Sebastopol, CA, 95473-1100, 707-824-4374, info@gcir.org, www.gcir.org

2002, 125 pages, ISBN 0-89843-353-3. Published by Aspen Institute, One Dupont Circle NW, Washington, DC, 20036-1133, publications@aspeninstitute.org

Download pdf: http://www.aspeninstitute.org/site/apps/ka/ec/product.asp?c=huLWJeMRKpH&b=667387&ProductID=180723

December 2003, 11 pages. Published by Americans for the Arts, 1000 Vermont Avenue NW, 6th floor, Washington, DC, 20005, 202-371-2830, info@artsusa.org, www.AmericansForTheArts.org

This monograph describes variations on the united arts fund model of providing arts support and provides a number of statistics from 2002 on arts fund fundraising and grantmaking.

June 2004, 16 pages. Published by Performing Arts Research Coalition, 1156 15th Street, Suite 810, Washington, DC, 20005, 202-293-4466 x214, parc@operaamerica.org, www.operaamerica.org/parc

Download pdf: http://www.operaamerica.org/parc/PARCSummaryRpt.pdf

May 2004, 53 pages. Published by Battelle Memorial Institute

Download pdf: http://www.flinn.org/docs/Vibrant_Culture-Thriving_Economy_full_213.pdf

The product of a multi-disciplinary task force in the greater Phoenix metropolitan area, this report makes the case, from an economic development point of view, for a central role for arts and culture in the region's future planning initiatives.

http://www.culturalpolicy.org/index.cfm

The Center provides a variety of publications on cultural policy, their own as well as others, news links and online discussion forums in the "cultural commons."

http://www.culturalpolicy.arts.gla.ac.uk/

The Center's own research and publications focus on the UK, but the searchable database of cultural policy resources and links is international in scope.