It’s official. As of 10:17 pm tonight, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act has passed both houses of Congress, and the arts are invited to the party. Quoth Americans from the Arts, by email: We can now confirm that the package DOES include $50 million in direct support for arts jobs through National Endowment forRead More
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How to solve the concert calendar problem
This post by Andrew Taylor intrigued me: …Which brings us to systems like SonicLiving, a live concert database that draws on my iTunes library and Pandora radio stations to suggest upcoming shows in my town. In a few short steps, the system flagged three upcoming concerts by favorite artists that I didn’t know about (becauseRead More
Srsly?
Via Fractured Atlas, it looks like the fabled $50 million NEA stimulus might actually have survived the reconciliation process (pdf, page 4) between the House and Senate packages of the bill…seemingly at the expense of three times that number for the Smithsonian. And on a related note, how many of you knew that the NEARead More
One last chance
Right now, the conference committee is hammering out the final version of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. The goal is to reconcile the House version of the bill with the Senate version of the bill. The House version includes $50 million for the NEA to help keep jobs in the arts intact. The SenateRead More
Around the horn: picking up the pieces edition
Obviously, the big story this week has been the effort to get the NEA funding through the Senate, which as it stands doesn’t look in very good shape with the Coburn amendment having passed. However, Americans for the Arts is taking out a series of full-page ads in several political newspapers and organizing a letter-writingRead More
Ouch.
Me, a couple of days ago: Anyway, it’s not like the arts are in poor company. Big Bad Sen. Tom Coburn also wants to eliminate funding [in the stimulus package] for casinos, aquariums, zoos, local parks, highway beautification, and just about everything else that’s not a tax cut. (Don’t worry, it’ll never pass.) The Senate,Read More
Time to cut the crap: The NEA money should stay
This is what Rep. Jack Kingston (R-GA) has to say about the $50 million for the NEA being included in the stimulus bill: Representative Jack Kingston, a Georgia Republican, wants to transfer the proposed NEA funding to highway construction. He failed to get the House to vote on his proposal, so he is now tryingRead More
Stimulus not getting much of a rise out of Republicans
And so it begins. Now that Republican opposition to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 is solidifying, political conservatives in the Senate are beginning to use the $50 million in NEA funding that was in the original design of the bill (and the version that the House passed) as a pawn for negotiations.Read More
Around the horn: home stretch edition
My fourth and final semester at the Yale School of Management has begun, and classes-wise, it’s looking to be the most interesting yet. I’m taking Endowment Management with the folks from the legendary Yale Investments Office, which has performed in the top one percent of institutional investors over the past two decades; Philanthropic Foundations withRead More
The Blogroll Revealed: Part III
This is the third in my series of posts designed to introduce you to the various wonderful sites on my blogroll. Last spring, I expanded my reading list significantly and added a number of sites that dealt more specifically with arts management and philanthropy. All of the sudden, I was much more informed about theRead More
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