Monday, December 26, 2022
ProPublica recently reported that the IRS has yet to release nearly a half million non-profit tax records. You may be wondering why that is something you should be concerned about. In fact, …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:18PMThursday, December 22, 2022
Diane Ragsdale recently made a post about the design and intent of the Masters of Arts in Creative Leadership program she is leading at Minneapolis College of Art and Design (MCAD). In answe…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:12AMWednesday, December 21, 2022
Hat tip to Dan Pink who tweeted about a study which found teaching improv to students can lower social anxiety and intolerance of uncertainty. The study authors noted that historically, �…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:24AMTuesday, December 20, 2022
I am sure most people are aware of the clamoring anger about ticket sales for Taylor Swift’s concerts, mostly blaming Ticketmaster for screwing things up, but also potentially being compli…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 08:06AMThursday, December 15, 2022
Apropos to my post on Monday about how gift recipients value experiences over material gifts, Pew Research Center recently released research finding showing that spending time with family …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:03AMWednesday, December 14, 2022
Wired recently had an article about the challenges facing independent artists when it comes to touring. Many are facing a combination of higher costs, a flooded market, and limited resources…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 05:42AMMonday, December 12, 2022
So I serendipitously started on my drive to work this past Saturday evening at the exact time a Hidden Brain episode mentioned how research shows that recipients of gifts prefer experiential…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:24PMThursday, December 8, 2022
An interesting situation has arisen in connection with at check out donation solicitations. Credit to Isaac Butler who retweeted a link to a post about a man who brought suit against drugsto…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 03:24AMWednesday, December 7, 2022
Here is a fun little conversation for performing arts venues because there is a fair chance you have a different point of view as a venue operator than as a consumer. I saw this tweet last w…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 03:03AMTuesday, December 6, 2022
About six weeks ago I alluded to the fact I was moving to take up a new job. A month ago I joined the City of Loveland, Colorado Cultural Services to lead the Rialto Theater. I have told…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:36AMThursday, 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 07:13AM 
