I am done with one of my five classes as of this past Friday, a sign that things are finally winding down here in New Haven. With final projects and/or major hours quotas for all of my other commitments, however, I’m guaranteed to be up against it for at least a couple more weeks. InRead More
New Blogs!
Here are this week’s newly added blogs….enjoy! Arlene GoldbardI first came to know Arlene Goldbard’s work through her two-part series proposing “A New New Deal” from earlier this year, published by Community Arts Network. She has a blog at her own website that deals with “culture, politics, and spirituality.” Goldbard has been writing on theseRead More
Around the horn: redeye edition
This one will have to be quick because I’m leaving on a plane to California in a few hours. Busy, busy, busy! The Hewlett Foundation has finally released phase two of its Youth in the Arts report, conducted by Barry Hessenius. This edition used focus groups of young arts professionals to explore the implications ofRead More
New Blogs!
Here are this week’s newly added blogs….enjoy! Carolyn JackCarolyn Jack is principal of Cleveland-based consulting firm The Genius Group and former arts editor for the Cleveland Plain Dealer. There are some really interesting creative-economy-related doings taking place in the Cleveland area right now, and Ms. Jack is right in the middle of it. Her blogRead More
Around the horn: Bake sale edition
Last weekend, I visited NYC and checked out some new music concerts for the first time in a while. The first, on Friday night, was the first-ever New Music Bake Sale presented by Newspeak and Ensemble de Sade, a raucous affair with five hours of music, well over a hundred attendees, tables for different organizationsRead More
New Blogs!
Here’s this week’s crop of newly added blogs….enjoy!Creative Class ExchangeIf you’re reading Createquity and don’t know the name of Richard Florida, then you have some catching up to do. The celebrity professor is the originator of so-called “creative class theory” and now teaches at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management. This is theRead More
A talk with Ford Foundation President Luis Ubiñas
This week, the philanthropy world was abuzz with the announcement of the Ford Foundation’s new program priorities, culminating a two-year self-assessment led by new President Luis Ubiñas. Back on March 31, Ubiñas spoke at a Leaders Forum event at the Yale School of Management. I was fortunate enough to attend both that talk and aRead More
Around the horn: OMG I’m almost done! edition
I realized late last week that I haven’t yet posted about the classes I’m taking in this, my final half-semester at Yale School of Management. Two are carrying over from earlier in the semester: my Recording Arts class in the Sound Design program at the Drama School, and my nonprofit law clinic in which weRead More
Around the horn: Traffic spike edition
So, yesterday the number of visitors to Createquity shot up by about 500% over previous day averages for the past month. My recent post on compensation for support employees in the nonprofit sector got linked on the Philanthropy News Digest blog, and it looks like some people posted it on Facebook and emailed it aroundRead More
Compensation of support employees in the nonprofit sector
Last weekend I posted a couple of essays on compensation in the nonprofit sector which attracted a decent amount of feedback. The Cliffs Notes version, in case you don’t have time to read them, is that I don’t believe increasing executive compensation levels at large nonprofits will necessarily lead to a higher quality of leadershipRead More
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