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Category Archives: emerging leaders
Around the horn: Johnny Weir edition
It is indeed state budget time, and AFTA’s Tim Mikulski has a helpful round-up of some of the early arts advocacy fights on the horizon for this year. So far, Rhode Island’s 58% cut is looming largest, but Louisiana is close behind as Gov. Jindal wants to halve the state’s Department of Culture, Recreation, and [...]
Around the horn: Vancouver edition
Stephen Colbert is ready for the Olympics…are YOU?
Did you know the Olympics used to award medals to artists between 1912 and 1948? Germany led with 24 in all.
Holy moly data gold mine ahead: PeteSearch has been writing a program to scrape the public Facebook profiles off the web and analyze their connections and fan pages. [...]
Looking back: Createquity in Quotes
“What should it matter if one feels truly alive while composing while another does so through nuclear physics or conducting market research or cooking? If the goal is to get the arts to be taken seriously in broader policy discussions, it seems to me that the creativity connection is crucial. And not just in the [...]
In which my moniker is capitaliz’d
I’m happy to report that I’ve been elected to the Americans for the Arts Emerging Leader Council, a national volunteer advisory committee, for a term beginning next month and ending in 2012. I’ve really enjoyed getting to know Americans for the Arts and everybody associated with the Emerging Leader Program in the past year, and [...]
GiveWell Grows Up
Those of you who have been following Createquity for a very long time will remember my utter fascination with a radically transparent donor-advising think tank (and sometime grantmaker) called GiveWell. The organization was founded by two former hedge-fund workers in their twenties with significant financial backing from their coworkers and associates. I’ve posted about GiveWell [...]
Around the horn: Turkey time edition
Podcasts galore! We’ve got Stephanie Evans talking to 20UNDER40 founder Edward Clapp (part I, part II); Rosetta Thurman interviewing a panel of young executive directors, including Springboard for the Arts’s Laura Zabel; NPR talking to Washington Post music critic Anne Midgette about trends in classical music; and Andrew Taylor talking to Bill Ivey.
Some philanthropy news: [...]
Around the horn: Go Phillies edition
Gradually getting back on schedule here, so the regular round-up is on Tuesday this week, then returns to Monday next week. Here’s the goods!
A propos of recent discussions on emerging leaders, the Council on Foundations has released a first-time report looking at Career Pathways to Philanthropic Leadership. Among the highlights:
Nearly four out of five new [...]
An Open-Source Arts Field
(crossposted from the Americans for the Arts Emerging Leaders Salon)
I want to express my appreciation to my fellow Salon bloggers last week and everyone who has commented—you’ve given me a lot to think about. Before I go, though, I want to make what seems to me like an essential point. We’ve spent a lot of [...]
Live (sort of) from GIA: Day IV – Changing the Game
(crossposted at the Grantmakers in the Arts Conference Blog)
My final day at the Grantmakers in the Arts Conference began with a GREAT panel on “new models, new leaders, new ideas” for arts organizations and philanthropy, organized and moderated by Marc Vogl from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. (Disclosure: I worked closely with Marc last [...]
Around the horn: earthquake edition
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