Thursday, December 1, 2022
While I try to write posts about the arts in general, the fact is the content of my posts tends to orient toward performing arts rather visual arts. That said, there are a lot of parallel ex…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:48PMWednesday, November 30, 2022
You may have seen news about Ulster County, NY’s demon-spider I Voted sticker. It made national news because the design by 14 year old Hudson Rowan was so strikingly cool/strange and garne…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 06:18AMTuesday, November 29, 2022
I was interested to see there was some research conducted with some of the earliest recipients of MacKenzie Scott’s unrestricted gifts to various non-profits between 2020 and 2021. The med…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 05:54AMWednesday, November 23, 2022
I saw a tweet by Maria Popova linking to a piece she wrote about the philosopher Seneca’s thoughts on gratitude and thought it might make an appropriate post for Thanksgiving. Seneca was a…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:54PMOver the years, I have written a fair bit on culture passes that various European countries have distributed to young people. In addition to passes for cultural experiences and goods, some…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 03:36AMMonday, November 21, 2022
I was out taking a walk this weekend and flipped over to the NPR livestream just as an episode of the Splendid Table came on. As they introduced the second guest, Priya Parker, I wondered wh…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:06PMFriday, November 18, 2022
My nephew is in the throes of writing essays for college applications so perhaps that is why a Twitter thread by author Kelly Barnhill caught my attention a month ago. She talks about how ne…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:42AMWednesday, November 16, 2022
Okay, a little bit of a rant today. I have wanted to get this off my chest for a couple years now. Who decided that greeting customers with “What can I get started for you today?” was a …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:06PMTuesday, November 15, 2022
About a week ago, The Atlantic had an article that answered a question that has been nagging me for quite a few years – are kids still passing down the silly, nonsense jokes, hand clapping…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:18AMWednesday, November 9, 2022
Little trip down memory lane to an entry I did referencing Joe LeBlang, the owner of a tobacco shop whose entrepreneurial mind created NYC’s first Times Square discount ticket service in …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:18PMI have been listening to the pledge drive for the statewide public radio network the last couple weeks and been thinking nostalgically about my time living in Hawaii when I was a regular gue…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:06AMTuesday, November 8, 2022
I saw an article on the NBC News site questioning the value of standing ovations with a subtitle suggesting the seeming default occurrence of the act was a symptom of “‘everyone gets a t…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 03:36AMThursday, November 3, 2022
Many arts organizations are seeing a drop in ticket sales and subscriptions this year which got me to thinking about a TED talk Dan Ariely did about how unwanted options helped helped people…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:36AMWednesday, November 2, 2022
Back in 2009 I wrote about a TED talk Dan Pink did on motivation. In particular, he discussed how monetary rewards was successful at motivating people in mechanical tasks, but when it came t…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:12AMTuesday, November 1, 2022
Perusing my archives, I came across a post about something Adam Thurman of The Mission Paradox blog wrote regarding the poor work environment in the arts. While people, including myself, wer…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:48AMThursday, October 27, 2022
Looking back at past entries, I came across a post I wrote about educator Jane Remer’s thoughts about arts in education. I had read and written this post years before I began corresponding…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 04:43AMWednesday, October 26, 2022
I am going to be traveling and preparing to take up a new position so I am dipping back into the archives to help provide some content while I am busy elsewhere. One of the first entries I…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 04:13AMTuesday, October 25, 2022
For a long time now pursuit of a low overhead ratio has been viewed as a benchmark of good governance in the non-profit sector. There have been arguments against that view, but the perceptio…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 03:55AMThursday, October 20, 2022
Last month I mentioned NPR was doing a series on theatre in the US. In fact, there is an installment in that series airing today. However, today I wanted to point out a entry in the series f…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 08:07PMWednesday, October 19, 2022
Yesterday Daniel Pink made the following Twitter post about OKRs – Objectives & Key Results (because apparently KPIs – Key Performance Indicators, needed to be replaced with another …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 07:37AMTuesday, October 18, 2022
Over the last few months, Non-Profit Quarterly has run a series of pieces on the topic of capacity building. In particular, the authors have challenged the notion that current capacity build…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 07:13AMFriday, October 14, 2022
I haven’t really been paying close attention to all the recent stories about the re-opening of the renovated Geffen Hall at Lincoln Center, but a New Yorker article about how the acoustics…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 05:33AMWednesday, October 12, 2022
Jeremy Reynolds recently wrote a great piece about the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra’s (PSO) European tour. The article isn’t so much about what happened during the tour as it is about w…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:49AMTuesday, October 11, 2022
For decades now there has been a belief that the lower the ratio of non-profit’s overhead expenses to program expense, the better run the non-profit is. As a result, a low overhead ratio…
SOURCE: artshacker.com at 05:48PMMonday, October 10, 2022
Given that today is Indigenous People’s Day, I wanted to mention some recent positive developments related to the arts and an increased presence and role of the Muscogee (Creek) people who…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:25PMThursday, October 6, 2022
Countries around the world are eyeing the success of South Korea’s K-Pop, and Japan’s earlier J-Pop, and are developing national music strategies of their own according to a recent Forbe…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:25AMWednesday, October 5, 2022
Last week Vox had a provocatively titled article saying “Why fewer Americans are donating to charity.” Rising to that provocation, I read the fairly lengthy piece that essentially said t…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:07AMTuesday, October 4, 2022
Last week Barry Hessenius sent me a link to a Buzzfeed article listing answers to job interview questions, suggesting it might make a good blog post. This suggestion was well-timed because D…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:43AMWednesday, September 28, 2022
If you have read Ve Le’s Non-Profit AF blog, you know that he often frames serious topics with a bit of humor, often extolling vegan cuisine and his obsession with the Oxford comma. Freque…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:49PMTuesday, September 27, 2022
A couple weeks ago Aubrey Bergauer hosted a LinkedIn conversation with Karen Freeman from Advisory Board for the Arts (ABA) to discuss what mattered most to arts professionals as they sought…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:25PMMonday, September 26, 2022
A couple weeks ago I caught an NPR story about a group of strippers at a bar in LA who were working to unionize under the auspices of Actors’ Equity Association. The dancers had been dis…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:03PM 
