I’m traveling to New York tonight to participate in both the Association of Performing Arts Presenters conference and the International Society for the Performing Arts conference. Both promise different perspectives on the state of the live performing arts. And both offer the glorious opportunity to reconnect with colleagues and friends from around the world. A […]
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Free tools for teaching (and talking)
A core service for most arts organizations is the connection of artists and audience. Hope that’s not a shock. But if you were to create a time diary for most organizations, tracking how they spent the minutes available in a single year, you’d likely find that the actual connection (face to face, voice to voice, […]
When the money gets tight, the moneyed get metrics
One major emerging trend in formal philanthropy over the past decade has been the increasing effort to quantify social return. As philanthropic dollars are fewer, and competition for contributed income grows more intense, it’s only natural for boards and big philanthropists to seek observable evidence that they’re making the right choices, and that the choices […]
