My lesson for this week: sometimes, taking four and a half classes off of your schedule doesn’t necessarily make your life any less busy. Not sure if that says more about my classes or about me. Either way, here’s your roundup for the first week of June:
- On the heels of my income-sensitive ticket proposal, I found this interesting: ticket scalping for charity?
- Color me shocked, just shocked: those with the least are the ones who give the most. But it seems some people aren’t getting hit so hard from the recession…or at least are in a better position to absorb the pain. Namely, foundation and orchestra executives, respectively. Increases for both categories in FY2008 outpaced those of the rest of us substantially. Are we surprised?
- What is the more salient fact in this story: the fact that 20% of Harvard Business School students have signed a new ethics pledge, or the fact that 80% of Harvard Business School students declined to sign an ethics pledge?
- Looks like the Massachusetts Cultural Council is going to avoid that 57% cut after all. Thank goodness. In other Massachusetts news, it turns out that MASS MoCA, darling of the creative economy literature though it may be, was hanging onto the edge of the financial abyss until this year.
- Experts to the rescue: Clara Miller from the Nonprofit Finance Fund did a Chronicle of Philanthropy chat last week on recession strategies for the arts. Check it out here. Meanwhile, Doug McLennan from ArtsJournal offers some thoughts on social networking and the arts.
- Craving comparative financial data for your performing arts center, or performing arts centers in general? This resource from AMS Planning & Research may be what you’re looking for.
- Americans for the Arts has released the recommendations from its third annual National Arts Policy Roundtable.
- Building community through the arts: in Russia, in Minnesota, in Seattle.
- Been wondering what the plans are for the new White House Office of Social Innovation? Here’s an interview with two of the people involved.
- Next big thing alert: this week’s version is Google Wave, a new way to integrate email, social networking, blogging, and wiki-style collaboration into one Killer App. Check out the promotional video here.
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