A heads up to people who have, (or know people with), innovative ideas using technology to connect people with arts and culture, the Knight Foundation is looking for project ideas via the Kn…
I have been cautioning the non-profit arts community about citing the economic value of the arts for over a decade now. The first time was in 2007. I wrote about it a few times in the interi…
Generous donations to a non-profit can often become more of a burden than a blessing which is why it is important to have a good donation policy and properly evaluate the impact of the donat…
Ken Davenport made a post last month about the way the New York City subway system is shifting their practice. Since more subway riders are able to pay for rides with their credit cards and …
In a recent “Taking Note”, National Endowment for the Arts’Â Director of Research & Analysis, Â Sunil Iyengar mentioned that in the coming year the NEA will commis…
Via Marginal Revolution comes a study about the high levels of creativity in Iceland where: ….1 in 10 adults in the country have published a book, why playing in a band is consider…
Thanks to a partnership between the Akron Art Museum and the Akron-Summit County Public Library, not only can you get a book to place on the nightstand beside your bed, you can also get a pa…
The video of ArtPlace America’s CEO Jamie Bennett’s keynote at an Invest Health convening came across my feed recently. What I found valuable in his speech was that he laid o…
A job listing for a Program Manager at the Armed Services Arts Partnership came across my social media feed today. I might not have followed the link except that I was curious what type of w…
Gotta give a shout out to Non-Profit Quarterly for putting up two theatre related articles yesterday. I wanted to call attention to it to show appreciation for to them for covering arts conc…
It probably isn’t news to anyone these days that popular culture can influence what people perceive to be factual information. While there is a lot of controversy over the intentio…
If you keep hearing how great Finland is, the results they are having might be due, in part, to the problem solving processes they are using. The city of Helsinki developed a board game to f…
If you are like me, you have been excited by the increased quantity and quality of research being made available about arts and culture issues and practices! Even if you aren’t as exci…
The Conversation recently had an article about a study that purports to show why some people are more creative than others. The study performed fMRI scans on people while asking them to unde…
The “Why Won’t Broadway Livestream/Broadcast” argument has been going on for awhile now but a recent article on Fast Company suggests that time may be drawing near as Netfl…
The Harbin International Ice and Snow Festival just started a couple weeks ago. Despite temperatures which hover in the -20s, they are expecting about 1.5 million visitors before the festiva…
Apropos of my post on Monday about physical objects being valued more than digital copies, there was a fairly long piece in The Guardian about how a paperless society hasn’t been achie…
I recently published a short piece on ArtsHacker about how important the leadership of non-profit board chairs was to the success of the organization. Much of the information was draw from a…
Roger Tomilson tweeted about Harvard Business Review article that provides some food for thought about how people might experience arts and culture. I’ll jump right to a quote since th…
As soon as I saw the first four lines of a post Seth Godin made last month, I knew what I wanted to write. Then he wrote a lot of it for me. Want to go visit a nudist colony? I don’t k…
Head over to CityLab and read an interesting piece about how Minneapolis health clinic used pop-up art stations to provide services in their community. People's Center Health Services hired …
For those of you looking to make resolutions in the new year, (or just appreciate good illustrations of concepts), I offer Edgar Allan Poe’s thoughts on Procrastination as illustrated …
CityLab recently had an article that resurrected the subject of a debate I have been having internally and with others going on two decades now. The article is about efforts people are makin…
Community engagement is a common topic in the arts and culture industry. We talk about how important it is. We talk about successful programs that have been executed. However, there is rarel…
If you feel like you don’t have a clue how to run a successful non-profit and are just winging it, you probably know that you are in good company. If you are wishing there was a book s…