This one will have to be quick because I’m leaving on a plane to California in a few hours. Busy, busy, busy! The Hewlett Foundation has finally released phase two of its Youth in the Arts report, conducted by Barry Hessenius. This edition used focus groups of young arts professionals to explore the implications of [...]
My first encounter with Richard Florida’s work took place, ironically, mere hours after I delivered a presentation on economic development and the arts to an audience of business school students one year ago as part of Yale SOM’s Organizational Effectiveness Seminar. For the initial slides, without realizing it, I had employed a classic Florida trope [...]
Here are this week’s newly added blogs….enjoy! Carolyn JackCarolyn Jack is principal of Cleveland-based consulting firm The Genius Group and former arts editor for the Cleveland Plain Dealer. There are some really interesting creative-economy-related doings taking place in the Cleveland area right now, and Ms. Jack is right in the middle of it. Her blog [...]
I’m submitting a proposal to organize two panels at the 2009 Net Impact National Conference at Cornell University in November. This event draws thousands of students and professionals annually (last year’s edition in Philadelphia attracted 2400!) and it’s a major driver of the national conversation about business and social impact. I’ve made it my mission [...]
Last weekend, I visited NYC and checked out some new music concerts for the first time in a while. The first, on Friday night, was the first-ever New Music Bake Sale presented by Newspeak and Ensemble de Sade, a raucous affair with five hours of music, well over a hundred attendees, tables for different organizations [...]
It’s true: I participated in the infamous unfinished performance of Nathan Currier’s Gaian Variations at Avery Fisher Hall exactly five years ago today. I was there, on stage, when Harold Rosenbaum calmly closed his music folder, turned around, bowed to the confused audience, and walked off stage, four movements before the piece was supposed to [...]
Here’s this week’s crop of newly added blogs….enjoy!Creative Class ExchangeIf you’re reading Createquity and don’t know the name of Richard Florida, then you have some catching up to do. The celebrity professor is the originator of so-called “creative class theory” and now teaches at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management. This is the [...]
This week, the philanthropy world was abuzz with the announcement of the Ford Foundation’s new program priorities, culminating a two-year self-assessment led by new President Luis Ubiñas. Back on March 31, Ubiñas spoke at a Leaders Forum event at the Yale School of Management. I was fortunate enough to attend both that talk and a [...]
I realized late last week that I haven’t yet posted about the classes I’m taking in this, my final half-semester at Yale School of Management. Two are carrying over from earlier in the semester: my Recording Arts class in the Sound Design program at the Drama School, and my nonprofit law clinic in which we [...]
In the week since I posted my thoughts on compensation of support employees in the nonprofit sector, the entry has been Facebooked, LinkedIn, Twittered, re-blogged, and emailed to the point that it is now the second-most-viewed Createquity post of all time (and fast gaining on the leader, Got Milk?). It’s no coincidence, I suspect, that [...]
Hello Scott, thank you for the question! These issues are addressed several times in the report, mainly in the section...
Hi, Ian! Just curious: did this study address anything regarding geography or age issues?
Thanks for putting this up on the web. I’d like to get the thesis if you don’t mind sending it. I want to...
I am pursuing music full time. all or nothing i guess.
Katherine what an in depth article. Thank you so much for writing this. The arts community needs something like this!