This week has been an interesting one at business school. The suits and industry types have been in a somber mood, sometimes punctuated with gallows humor. There are people in our class whose full-time job offers are now officially kaput, and numerous others who have to wait longer than anticipated to learn their fate. ARead More
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 outsiderRead More
Back in action
The last couple of weeks have been a bit of a whirlwind as I traveled back to the East Coast and almost immediately started my second year of business school. This time around, my diet of classes consists entirely of electives, so I’ve been able to tailor my course schedule more closely to my oft-idiosyncraticRead More
Asset management on $5 a day
I’ve been thinking lately about Sudhir Venkatesh’s experiment in extreme poverty immersion and the lessons it holds for grantmakers. As I mentioned in that post, I’ve known only a tight-budget existence in my personal life thus far, which has been reinforced by four years working for a nonprofit with annual expenses in the $1.5 millionRead More
You Can’t Always Get What You Want
This is amazing. Freakonomics guest blogger Sudhir Venkatesh has been working for the past few months with Michael, a trust-fund baby with $78 million to donate over the next few years. After paying 20 grand to a few consultants to help him direct his funds and getting a lot of hogwash about “embracing the innerRead More
Splashing Around the Pool
A roundup of tasty tidbits for your weekend: Adam Forest Huttler is really smart. The founder of Fractured Atlas delivers a very lengthy, but entirely worth reading analysis of what MBAs can bring to the nonprofit sector, and arts organizations in particular. I am by no means a card-carrying member of the “business skills canRead More
Got Milk?
What is with the arts field’s obsession with the Got Milk? ad campaign? I feel like every time the subject of an ad campaign or slogan comes up, Got Milk is immediately referenced–it’s practically the Godwin’s Law of arts marketing. At NPAC, I apparently wasn’t the only one to groan when I learned that theRead More
Saving Our Cultural Capital
On Saturday I had the privilege of attending Saving Our Cultural Capital: The Challenges Facing Independent Artists and Venues in Manhattan, an event co-sponsored by The Tank, Fractured Atlas, and the New School for Management and Urban Policy. This mini-conference focused on the creative sector’s economic challenges and contributions to urban life, something that I’veRead More
Hit it.
C4 is back with the world premiere of my new piece She Didn’t Mean to Do It, among several other awesome works, this Saturday at St. Joseph’s Church in New York City. Details at the website. I’m actually singing in this concert because the scheduling worked out enough for me to be a part ofRead More
Professionals vs. Amateurs (part 2)
One of the reasons I’ve found it challenging to keep up with Createquity at times is the sheer volume of material that my RSS reader brings me into contact with every day. Knowing that my colleagues in the blogosphere are generating so much high-quality material themselves makes me feel that much more pressure to makeRead More