Tuesday, 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 11:03PMWednesday, September 21, 2022
Keep your radio tuned and your ears open to your local NPR station for the next month or so, especially if you are a theatre professional. The network is doing a series over the next five we…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:03PMSince there is a bit of a cross-readership, many of you may have already seen that Drew McManus announced yesterday that he was going to cease posting regularly on the Adaptistration blog. D…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:43AMTuesday, September 20, 2022
By some fortuitous coincidence, I was digging into my news feed backlog and read Seema Rao’s Museum 2.0 post on guidelines for museum Tiktok accounts on the same day Ceci Dadisman put out …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:19AMThursday, September 15, 2022
Perhaps it is just the availability of social media feeds and news aggregators to bring information to my attention, but it seems that art projects have been effective in bringing about soci…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:33PMTuesday, September 13, 2022
So it appears that podcasts have turned into public radio’s competitive advantage. According to a recent study, nearly 4 in 10 public radio listeners also listen to a podcast weekly with t…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:55PMLast week I received an email from Arts Midwest noting that September 9-18 is Welcoming Week, an international effort to provide a welcoming experience at all levels. This includes governmen…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 05:43AMWednesday, September 7, 2022
Last week Hyperallergic ran a piece asking why the New York Department of Sanitation (DSNY) with a budget of $1.9 billion was asking artists to submit proposals to decorate their trucks for …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:43PMAlways happy to draw attention to the good work of arts organizations, I was pleased to get a comment on yesterday’s post about creating contests and engagement events which expect artists…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:43PMThursday, September 1, 2022
I have been a firm believer in the idea that everyone has the capacity to be creative so I read a piece on The Conversation discussing how creativity doesn’t occur in a vacuum with great i…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:13AMOccasionally there has been discussion about how the standing ovation has become the default response at the end of a performance. Not long ago, Seth Godin made a short post about expectatio…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:13AMGene Tagaki raises some interesting thoughts over on the Non-Profit Law blog on the question of how legal concepts and structures may need to adjust to reflect changing values in the non-pro…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:12AMThursday, August 25, 2022
I don’t remember exactly how, but I became aware of a grant program administered by the Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta (CFGA) called “A Place to Perform,” which supports the …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 04:37AMAndrew Taylor made an interesting video/post about dominant arts management styles on his blog recently. I am always wary about personality type tests and categorizations, particularly bec…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 04:37AMMonday, August 22, 2022
Yesterday I had the opportunity to attend a screening of the short documentary, Conducting Life, about Roderick Cox, a man who grew up here in Macon, GA who went on to become an associate co…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:49PMThursday, August 18, 2022
Earlier this month, CityLab had an interesting article on the subject of trauma informed placemaking. For the most part, the article focuses on artistic projects which have given communities…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:54AMWednesday, August 17, 2022
In a recent post Colleen Dilenschneider reported that recent research reflects the title of this post. While inflation is a big concern for people right now, ticket/admission pricing does …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:33AMTuesday, August 16, 2022
In an ArtsHacker article I wrote back in 2015, I had advocated for the use of consent agendas as a way to quickly dispose of routine matters at board meetings and leave time for discussion o…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 07:12AMWednesday, August 10, 2022
Last month Drew McManus had box office manager Tiffin Feltner make a guest post on his Adaptistration blog on the topic of comp tickets. It has taken me about three weeks to stop grindin…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:12PMTuesday, August 9, 2022
American Theatre recently had a great piece about an interesting approach Princeton University is using as an alternative to auditions called “Try On Theatre Days.” They describe the pro…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:54PMMonday, August 8, 2022
Many of you may have seen the news about the accusations of “wokeness” being leveled at the restaurant chain Cracker Barrel for adding plant based breakfast sausage to the menu. To be cl…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:24PM 
