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Organizational Design Meets an Entrepreneur

The following article from the Chronicle of Philanthropy was shared with me by a good friend and colleague, Julie Hawkins, Executive Vice President of the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance.  I found it particularly interesting because it tells of an arts entrepreneur who, after a struggle in the not-for-profit world, chooses to cross over into the commercial one.  I also found it interesting that she mentions, when in the NFP world, problems with donors who want her to shape programs to their whims.  These types of … [Read more...]

An Organization of Organizations?

There's a need to envision a multi-faceted organizational topography of arts and culture not-for-profits in our communities.  As I've written in the past about there being too many 501c3, not-for-profits, and I've offered up alternative organizational possibilities, now it's time to think about how a landscape of different organizational designs might ideally work. To quickly recap: our communities are weighted down with too many 501c3's.  The 501c3 might be ideal for a number of arts and culture enterprises, but not for all.  … [Read more...]

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