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Rewarding Sustained Attention (from Arts Watch)
Merit, Aesthetic and Ethical by Marcia Muelder Eaton “Great art rewards sustained attention.” This simple theory comes from philosopher Marcia Muelder Eaton, professor emeritus at the University of...
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Are You Worried About Your Arts Education Program’s Future?
Mary-Helen Rossi Anyone with their eyes open today can’t help but wonder if those “gloom and doomers” might at least be partly right — should we be worried for our organizations’ survival? And if so,...
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Stop the Patchwork (from Arts Watch)
Kristen Engebretsen Our patchwork approach to providing arts education has gotta stop! I recently read an article about a school that won a $25,000 contest by HGTV to redesign their arts room, and it...
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Kickstarter Isn’t an NEA Substitute, It’s Another Part of the Arts Funding...
Tim Mikulski TalkingPointsMemo.com’s IdeaLab recently posted an article that included an interview with Kickstarter co-founder Yancey Strickler. In the piece, Strickler is quoted as stating,”It is...
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Creative Financial Approaches Support the Creative Economy
Max Donner Government budget deficits and budget limits of charitable foundations have made alternatives for financing arts projects more important. Five programs in Los Angeles this February showed...
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Corporate Giving is an Investment in the Community (from The pARTnership...
Joanne Riley The new pARTnership Movement has really resonated with the Cultural Alliance of York County (PA). Though we solicit individuals now, we started, and mostly still are, a corporate campaign...
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Keeping It Simple in a Jargon-Filled World
Chavon D. Carroll Have you ever tried to explain why the mirror fogs up in the bathroom when the shower is on to an inquisitive five-year-old? If so, you’ll quickly realize it’s not as easy as you’d...
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Sparking Business Support of Arts & Culture One Community at a Time (from The...
Laura Adlers It is no surprise to anyone working in the arts and culture sector that arts organizations all around the world are consistently challenged with the task of securing new and diverse...
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Documenting the Return On Our Investments
Robert Bush We love data at the Arts & Science Council (ASC). We are fortunate to have access to resources, but we also have to make choices about how we direct them to support the sector, and...
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Local Arts Classroom: Stepping Outside of Your Bubble
Jenna Hartzell When the call for applicants went out for the first ever Local Arts Classroom (LAC) program with Americans for the Arts I didn’t hesitate to apply. I had attended the Americans for the...
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Telling Your Story. No, Really.
Deb Vaughn We get asked to “tell our story” all the time in the arts. Who are you? Why do you value this work? What is it that you hope to accomplish? How will you get there? Funders demand it from...
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What’s better than a list? A list of lists! (from The pARTnership Movement)
Emily Peck The latest CECP (Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy) Giving in Numbers study, conducted in association with The Conference Board, shows that giving to the arts continues to receive...
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Has Endowment Become a Dirty Word?
Leah Hamilton Endowment. Much like the word “elite” or “patronize,” the term “endowment” seems to have acquired a negative connotation. The traditional endowment model was sold as a core strategy of...
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Technology Driving Arts Attendance, Engagement, & Fundraising
John Eger In the last decade alone, any business without a web presence—without an online, interactive website—was simply, not in business. Or wouldn’t be for long. The government and nonprofit sector...
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But I Hate Asking for Money… (An EALS Post)
Steven Dawson Regardless of the organizations mission, values, programs, etc., what is the ONE common factor that is needed to execute an organization’s purpose? Money! As much as we dislike connecting...
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From Creative Capital’s Artist’s Tools Handbook: 10 Fundraising Tips for Artists
Aaron Landsman This is a repost from Creative Capital’s Blog, The Lab, featuring tips straight from their Professional Development Program’s Artist’s Tools Handbook, a 200+ page resource, written by...
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Champion Your Cause
Nora Orphanides In this age of rapid technological change, it seems that the number of worthy causes known to people around the country and indeed the world is also growing at an exponential rate. Take...
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Giving Time & Treasure to the Arts Makes All the Difference
Jordan Shue Megan Bell Throughout the blog salon this week during National Arts and Humanities Month (and Pro Bono Week!), we hope these posts have demonstrated the value of giving your time and...
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Reflections for the New Year…
Ken Busby “Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful.” ~ Margaret J. Wheatley As we approach the final days of 2014,...
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Making Major Asks to Private Donors
John Bryan There is a gigantic, come-and-have-some, boatload of private sector money available to all arts organizations. New research from Richmond, Virginia confirms that most don’t ask for it....
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