{"id":1388,"date":"2010-02-02T12:52:46","date_gmt":"2010-02-02T20:52:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp\/2010\/02\/a_useful_question_about_nonpro\/"},"modified":"2010-02-02T12:52:46","modified_gmt":"2010-02-02T20:52:46","slug":"a_useful_question_about_nonpro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/main\/a_useful_question_about_nonpro.php","title":{"rendered":"A useful question about nonprofit status"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m pleased to notice a new blogger among the ArtsJournal crew, James Undercofler, who recently joined the faculty at Drexel University&#8217;s Arts Administration program after an illustrious career in symphonies, conservatories, and cultural nonprofits. His <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/state\/\">State of the Art<\/a> blog will focus on the particular challenges of the nonprofit structure in supporting and advancing artistic intent. And <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/state\/2010\/01\/is-the-not-for-profit-structur.html\">his opening question<\/a> sets the tone for that essential conversation:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Is the traditional not-for-profit, 501(c)3 (NFP) so cumbersome in its<br \/>\nstructure as to actually impede the very promise of its original<br \/>\nintention?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>His answer is a qualified, &#8221;Yes.&#8221; Suggesting that particularly at the small, startup phase and the large, institutional phase, the nonprofit model can distract and distort an organization&#8217;s artistic vision or mission.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s certainly time for a fresh set of eyes and a refreshed public conversation on the subject. And I&#8217;ve often thought we need a national rapid-response team to swoop in on artists and arts enthusiasts at the moment they&#8217;re pondering nonprofit status (mostly to talk them down from the precipice). But I&#8217;ve come to believe it&#8217;s not the nonprofit structure itself, but rather our interpretation and application of it that create the problem.<\/p>\n<p>Nonprofits don&#8217;t kill artistic intent, people kill artistic intent. That said, the structure they&#8217;ve chosen certainly ranks as an accomplice to the crime. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m pleased to notice a new blogger among the ArtsJournal crew, James Undercofler, who recently joined the faculty at Drexel University&#8217;s Arts Administration program after an illustrious career in symphonies, conservatories, and cultural nonprofits. His State of the Art blog will focus on the particular challenges of the nonprofit structure in supporting and advancing artistic [&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-1388","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\/1388","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=1388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}