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Recently, while sitting in a coffee shop in Chicago, I overheard a language that sounded familiar. Being a folklorist I'm sensitive to occupational language. You can blindfold me in front of conversations of cowboys or farmers and I will be able to pick out a number of things that distinguish their talk. And having a private language is not bad, it's a reality.

June 2004. 66 pages. Published by California Tomorrow, 1904 Franklin St. Suite 300, Oakland, CA, 94612, 510-496-0220. Coalition of Community Foundations for Youth, 15639 Leavenworth Road, Basehor, KS, 66007, 800-292-6149

"Leading by Example" is a methodology originally developed by California Tomorrow to promote diversity in educational institutions and school systems. This report chronicles this process as it was undertaken by four community foundations to address diversity both within the organizations and in their programs.

Alternate ROOTS is a coalition of artists and cultural workers in the Southeastern USA; addressing racism and other oppressions has been integral to our mission for a long time. At our 2004 Annual Meeting this past August a panel of ROOTS' founding members discussed the function of ROOTS as a cultural continuation of the civil rights movement - beginning with our founding at the legendary Highlander Center in New Market, Tennessee.

2004, 222 pages, ISBN 0-9746383-0-7. Published by National Arts Journalism Program, 2950 Broadway, M.C. 7200, New York, NY, 10027, www.najp.org

This book expands on a 2002 conference of the same name and includes additional essays and material. The collection addresses how recent social, political, legal, economic and technological developments are placing fresh, and sometimes unintentional, constraints on the way art is created and distributed.

May 2002, Published by Public Knowledge, 1875 Connecticut Ave, NW, Suite 650, Washington, DC, 20009, 202-518-0020, publicknowledge.org, and New America Foundation, 1630 Connecticut Ave, NW, 7th floor, Washington, DC, 20009, 202- 986-2700, www.newamerica.net

Download pdf: http://www.publicknowledge.org/pdf/why_the_public_domain_matters.pdf

2004, 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 provides descriptions and examples of a range of local tax and revenue generating mechanisms that can be used to restore, sustain and increase public support for the arts.

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

October 2003, 146 pages. Published by The Western States Arts Federation, 1743 Wazee St, Suite 300, Denver, CO, 80202, 303-607-9019, www.westaf.org

This book contains the proceedings from a symposium of the same name convened by WESTAF in October, 2003 that brought together practitioners, artists, and academics to discuss the opportunities and challenges facing state arts agencies.

2002, 77 pages, ISBN 0-9718102-0-6. Published by National Performance Network, PO Box 70435, New Orleans, LA, 70172, 504-595-8008, info@npnweb.org

Download pdf: http://www.npnweb.org/files/public/NAAMP_all.pdf

The final report of the National Arts Administration Mentorship Program includes overall documentation of the project, case studies, analysis of lessons learned, and recommendations for future development.

Through the ages artists with disabilities have been important to our history and culture. Beethoven was deaf, Van Gogh was mentally ill, El Greco was visually impaired. For the most part we do not associate them with their disability. We celebrate their lives for the gifts of music and art that they left in our midst.