New Release–Capitalization tip sheet
June 17, 2014 We are excited to announce the release of a capitalization tip sheet, developed in partnership with the Nonprofit Finance Fund, to help organizations and funders who are working towards...
View ArticleTwo Strands of Art DNA
Our friend and sometimes collaborator Nick Rabkin gave a recent Pecha Kucha presentation on the historical role that teaching artists have played in our arts ecosystem. There are lots of great nuggets...
View ArticleCultural organizations deeply engaged in their communities
One of the most common questions we get about our Bright Spots report is what it really means to be “deeply engaged with your community,” which was one of the five principles that we identified as...
View ArticleThe next generation of arts leaders is here
We are currently in the middle of writing a paper with Youth Speaks that is the culmination of two convenings with hip hop activists and research on the nonprofit arts sector and the next generation of...
View ArticleIs beauty a basic need and right?
Beauty is not essential because it is in service to some economic or social outcome that is more basic than it, it is in and of itself a basic need. Last December, as part of the Art of Change...
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If we agree neoliberalism has failed to grow what matters, could we talk...
This is exciting. The IMF has just published a paper from three of its top economists saying that neoliberalism was oversold and is actually causing more harm than good. This analysis from the...
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Teaser: Cultural Equity Update
We’re working on an update to the data from our 2011 report “Fusing Arts, Culture and Social Change” to come later this year (spoiler: it has actually gotten worse), but this article from Jason Tseng...
View ArticleBasic income and artists
Perhaps the most important point in our recent study of trends and conditions facing artists today is that the issues facing artists are systemic and structural. As Laura Zabel from Springboard for the...
View Article“The Commons” as an intervention
This is a cross-posting of an essay we wrote for HowlRound as we launched our case study of its first eight years (2009-2017). It explains a little about what “the commons” is, and why it could be a...
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The U.S. Forest Service features our research on how art can help drive...
We’re excited that our work is featured in a new publication from the US Forest Service, Green Readiness, Response, and Recovery: A Collaborative Synthesis, on how communities respond to and rebound...
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