Tag: funding

  • Fund Advocacy or Direct Service? Is there a third way?

    Speaking of advocacy, I came across a rather interesting and compact blog by Ashley Blanchard of the consulting group TCC: Finding the Right Balance, Thoughts on Advocacy and Direct Service Funding. For better or worse, the recent economic crisis has changed the way some funders are thinking about their support for advocacy and direct services,…

  • This Moment for the Arts Sector: Will the Economy Force Significant Change?

    I first started wondering about the viability and rationality of the non-profit field when I ran the American Music Center. (Actually, I started thinking about it when I was at Juilliard, and began to realize just how many trombonists were being graduated from music schools across the United States, into a distinctly smaller job market…