Public Agency

Public Agency

April 30, 2009 by admin
Historical data do not mean anything in this situation. There is no blueprint and there is no network. We are doing the best we can with a combination of hard facts and intuition. Every line item is up for grabs; every $1,000 is material. How we feel about it all depends on which newspaper we read that morning.
—Managing Director, large performing arts group

Introduction

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April 30, 2009 by admin

2008, 110 pages. Western States Arts Federation, 1743 Wazee Street, Suite 300, Denver, Colorado, 80202, 303-629-1166, www.westaaf.org

http://www.taac.com/open-dialogue/open-dialogue-xi

Complete proceedings of the WESTAF-sponsored symposium, Open Dialogue XI, held in Denver, Colorado July 12-15, 2007. Presenters included Doudou Diène, A.B. Spellman, Louis LeRoy, Tatiana Reinoza Perkins, Maria-Rosario Jackson, and many more.


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April 30, 2009 by admin

Many of the feature articles in this issue offer tools for responding to GIA Executive Director Janet Brown's call to speak up, to not sit silently in the back but to stand up and illustrate or make the case for why arts and culture matters.

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2009, 238 pages. Wiley, 10475 Crosspoint Boulevard, Indianapolis, IN, 46256, 877-762-2974, www.wiley.com

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In The Place of the Arts in Multi-focus Foundations, Bruce Sievers writes that the rationale for supporting both the arts and the nonprofit sector as a whole is integrally linked to their capacity to advance pluralism, promote voluntary action, accommodate diversity, and champion individual visions of the public good. “Civil society,” Sievers notes, is increasingly the accepted concept to describe this sphere of social action.
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September 30, 2008 by admin

The Federal Communications Commission formally voted Friday (August 1, 2008) to uphold the complaint against Comcast, the nation's largest cable company, saying that it had illegally inhibited users of its high-speed Internet service from using popular file-sharing software. The decision, which imposes no fine, requires Comcast to end such blocking this year.

—Saul Hansell, The New York Times, August 2, 2008

What was at stake

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September 30, 2008 by admin

2008, 100 pages. Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305,
(650) 723-2146, www.gsb.stanford.edu

www.gsb.stanford.edu/news/packages/pdf/Flanagan.pdf

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September 30, 2008 by admin

2005, 11 pages. TCC Group, 31 West 27th Street, 4th Floor, New York, NY 10001, (212) 949-0990

http://www.tccgrp.com/pdfs/per_brief_impact.pdf

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