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Popularity Contest Philanthropy
Recently, JP Morgan Chase & Company gave away $5 million to two hundred charities, including some arts organizations, through its Summer 2010 Chase Community Giving campaign. Pepsi has been sending $1.3 million to nonprofit organizations each month this year as part of its Pepsi Refresh campaign, money that would have otherwise gone to Super Bowl [...]
Interview with National Arts Strategies
While at the Americans for the Arts Half Century Summit in Baltimore last month, Dallas Shelby from National Arts Strategies caught up with me and interviewed me for a video series NAS is doing of “conversations with leaders from inside and outside the field, [which] are meant to inspire and challenge you to take a [...]
We’re all in the same ocean, but not the same boat
Crossposted from the Creative Rights & Artists discussion over at ArtsJournal last week. The prompt for this post was a challenge from ArtsJournal honcho Doug McLennan to nominate “the biggest policy threat or potentially transformative initiative currently facing our culture.” [...] Thanks to all for the stimulating conversation. I think for me, the most exciting [...]
Around the horn: Heat wave edition
As we’ve mentioned here a few times recently, nonprofit organizations are now required to file a 990-N “postcard” form with the IRS every year. The National Center for Charitable Statistics has helpfully compiled a “doomsday list” of nonprofits who have failed to meet the requirement even after multiple warnings and thus risk losing their tax-exempt [...]
ArtsJournal Conversation on Creative Rights & Artists
This week, the venerable ArtsJournal is hosting (with Fractured Atlas, Future of Music Coalition, and the National Alliance for Media Arts + Culture) a discussion about artists’ creative rights and arts policy / advocacy more generally. I’m one of 22 featured bloggers, along with my Fractured Atlas colleague Justin Karr and some other great voices [...]
Look mom, I’m on the radio
Here’s the audio from my appearance on Rosetta Thurman’s “All Nonprofits Considered” talk show with Colleen Dilenschneider earlier today. It was a lot of fun and we covered considerable ground: the justifications for subsidizing the arts, what counts as “art,” audience demographic trends, how arts organizations are faring in the recession, leadership development and transition [...]
Around the horn: Founding Fathers edition
I’m going to be on Rosetta Thurman‘s show on BlogTalk Radio next Monday, July 12 at noon EDT with Colleen Dilenschneider, a graduate student who is the author of a previously-unknown-to-me arts blog called Know Your Own Bone. I’ve been an admirer of Rosetta’s for some time and I’m excited to finally be sort-of meeting [...]
Four Days in Charm City
Whew! I am not sure why seemingly every single arts service organization feels compelled to schedule their annual conferences in June, but it sure makes for a lively travel schedule for schlubs like me. This time around, I was in Baltimore for the Americans for the Arts Half-Century Summit, a much-hyped event indeed. I had [...]
Three Days in Hotlanta
I’m back up North after spending the latter part of last week attending the joint Chorus America/League of American Orchestras conference in Atlanta, GA, part of a bevy of performing arts conferences this month that also included those of TCG, OPERA America, and Dance/USA. In the past when I’ve done conference wrap-ups, I’ve given more [...]
Around the horn: hello NYC edition
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