Posting has been light around here lately because I am in the midst of another move. I am coming to the end of my official residence in Rhode Island, where I have been plying my trade and generally causing trouble for the last year or so. I’m moving back to New York to join the [...]
Short and sweet, this time: Philanthropy News Digest highlights a few examples of non-profit newspaper models around the country. Cool story about Lower Manhattan arts organizations banding together to improve their joint situation, to the point of actually sharing audience and financial figures with each other. Well done, and hope it yields results. Leonard Jacobs [...]
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 with [...]
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote up a Stanford case on the San Francisco Symphony for my Nonprofits class. The project was timely, given the recent release of the controversial Flanagan report (pdf) commissioned by the Mellon Foundation that studied the economic environment of symphony orchestras. The Flanagan report has gotten a lot of [...]
Hello Scott, thank you for the question! These issues are addressed several times in the report, mainly in the section...
Hi, Ian! Just curious: did this study address anything regarding geography or age issues?
Thanks for putting this up on the web. I’d like to get the thesis if you don’t mind sending it. I want to...
I am pursuing music full time. all or nothing i guess.
Katherine what an in depth article. Thank you so much for writing this. The arts community needs something like this!