Around the horn: Waziristan edition

All you folks out on the West Coast are missing some spectacular weather acrobatics this fall/winter. On Thursday morning we had heavy rain and winds so fierce that a tree branch got knocked off the trunk, bounced onto the garage and finally came to rest on the hood of my girlfriend’s car (which miraculously escapedRead More

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 GiveWellRead More

Around the horn: leftovers edition

Last week’s haul o’ links was a bit on the light side, due to mysterious other priorities that many fellow posters seemingly shared during the second half. But by all means, help yourself to these bits and pieces I carved up for you. On the heels of the NEA’s Cultural Workforce Forum on November 20,Read More

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 philanthropyRead More

Around the horn: Monday night karaoke edition

This week’s BLOGGER ON FIRE award indisputably goes to Phil Buchanan, founder and CEO of the Center for Effective Philanthropy, for a tour-de-force series of posts on the new Intrepid Philanthropist blog hosted by the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University. Buchanan, whose CEP is very much at the forefront of the nationalRead More

Around the horn: Net Impact edition

This Friday, I’m excited to be moderating and presenting at a panel at the Net Impact North America Conference at Cornell University’s Johnson School. (For those of you who have been following Createquity since the spring, this is the result of the Creative Economy proposal I submitted back in April.) If you happen to beRead More

Justice for Jazz Artists?

(Image by Flickr user hitchica, Creative Commons license) A while back, an intrepid reader of this blog got in touch to inform me of the American Federation of Musicians Local 802’s Justice for Jazz Artists! campaign, which seeks to establish pension payments for jazz musicians who play at venues in New York City. The campaignRead More

Around the horn: fall back edition

Whose brilliant idea was it to put the end of daylight saving time in the middle of Halloween night? Can we do that every year? NEA Chair Rocco Landesman’s Art Works blog is shaping up to be the must-read of the holiday season. Not just because of what he writes there, but because of theRead More

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 ofRead More

Live from GIA: Day IV – Brunch with Rocco

(crossposted at the Grantmakers in the Arts Conference Blog) Wednesday morning, a crush of arts funders, news media, and video crew crowded along with your friendly blogger host for the final GIA Conference event: a speech by Rocco Landesman, the recently appointed chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts. Other than a talk atRead More