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The Blogroll Revealed: Part II
Here’s the second in my series of posts giving you a little introduction to each site on my blogroll. For this go-round, we’ll look at some blogs that got added to my RSS reader in the early days of Createquity. As one might expect, these start to move beyond the music focus to include a [...]
Thoughts on “Thoughts on Effective Philanthropy”: Lessons from my Summer Internship
As the twenty or so regular readers of this blog will note, I debuted Createquity last October with a rather brash six-episode litany of “Thoughts on Effective Philanthropy” in the realm of the arts. I say brash because, at the time, I had no experience running a philanthropic program; all I had were my outsider [...]
Thoughts on Effective Philanthropy: Part VI – The Philanthropist as Speculator, Not Gatekeeper
For this sixth and final post in this series, I’m going to wax philosophical for a bit here and talk about values. Everybody knows that philanthropy in the nonprofit sector, and the arts in particular, is a big deal. Leaders of most nonprofit organizations spend the bulk of their professional lives worrying about where (figuratively [...]
Thoughts on Effective Philanthropy: Part V – Meeting the Artists Where They Are
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One of the memes that’s been coming out of the “best practices” camp for philanthropists the last few years is that organizations need more general operating support, rather than the project support that many funding entities are accustomed to providing. The advantage of general operating support (or [...]
Thoughts on Effective Philanthropy: Part IV – Funding Activity, Not Individuals
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For years, artists have complained about the National Endowment for the Arts’s 1996 decision, under pressure from Congress, to eliminate individual artist fellowships (except for literature). Nevertheless, it seems that a number of local and private arts agencies and foundations have instituted programs in the past 25 [...]
Thoughts on Effective Philanthropy: Part III – (Dis-)Economies of Scale in the Arts
Note: This is the third of a multipart series on the arts and philanthropy. I hope these ideas are of interest and welcome suggestions and feedback. To view the rest of this series, click here.
When we left off last time, I was advocating for funding agencies to adopt a spirit of experimentation in their [...]
Thoughts on Effective Philanthropy: Part II – Philanthropy and Experimentation
Note: This is the second of a multipart series on the arts and philanthropy. I hope these ideas are of interest and welcome suggestions and feedback. To view the rest of this series, click here.
When we left off last week, I noted that it’s hard to measure the effectiveness of the arts when we don’t [...]
Thoughts on Effective Philanthropy: Part I – The Nature of the Arts and their Impact
Note: This is the first of a multipart series on the arts and philanthropy. I hope these ideas are of interest and welcome suggestions and feedback. To view the rest of this series, click here.
Measuring impact is a hot topic in the nonprofit world right now, if the title of the 3rd Annual SOM Philanthropy [...]
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