{"id":1291,"date":"2009-05-04T10:35:55","date_gmt":"2009-05-04T17:35:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp\/2009\/05\/credit_where_credit_is_due\/"},"modified":"2009-05-04T10:35:55","modified_gmt":"2009-05-04T17:35:55","slug":"credit_where_credit_is_due","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/main\/credit_where_credit_is_due.php","title":{"rendered":"Credit where credit is due"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/diacritical\/2009\/04\/more-valuable---the-ticket-buy.html\">in his Diacritical blog<\/a>, Doug McLennan reminds us to continually reconsider the ways we recognize the <i>many<\/i> people who support our arts organizations &#8212; not just the ones who do so through contributions. Says he:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Who&#8217;s the more valuable member of your community? The person who gives<br \/>\nyou money but otherwise doesn&#8217;t have much to do with you, or the person<br \/>\nwho buys tickets and shows up for every performance? A thousand dollar<br \/>\ndonation is the same as $1000 of ticket revenue in the bank. Except it<br \/>\nisn&#8217;t.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been to many cultural organizations who bend over backward to thank and recognize their donors, only to badger and berate their ticket buyers. What about a special wall (or special benefits) to anyone who consistently buys more than three tickets per transaction? What about a special lounge or drink tickets or meet-the-artist events for those who buy more than a certain dollar volume in a given year?<\/p>\n<p>Donors are fabulous people, worthy of acknowledgment. But that loyal, enthusiastic, and present warm body in your gallery or theater isn&#8217;t so bad, either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over in his Diacritical blog, Doug McLennan reminds us to continually reconsider the ways we recognize the many people who support our arts organizations &#8212; not just the ones who do so through contributions. Says he: Who&#8217;s the more valuable member of your community? The person who gives you money but otherwise doesn&#8217;t have much [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1291","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}