Also: clearing the decks for an important announcement in August It’s the end of May, which means that too many nonprofit arts organizations are beginning their annual “end of fiscal year” push for additional donations. There’s a lot on the line for these charities to meet their financial revenue goals and stuffing as much asking as you can into that final month might … [Read more...] about Just a Reminder — June 30 Is Only Meaningful to You
Philanthropy and Donors
What Was That? Your Arts Organization Needs Funding? Get In Line.
Sorry, it was hard to hear you above the din of civil destruction. Massive layoffs. Mass deportations, even of people who are here legally. De-funding Social Security. Enacting enormous tax cuts for the wealthy. Crashing the financial markets (worldwide). Eliminating Medicare. Destroying hope. Raising prices. Legislating inequity. Jettisoning … [Read more...] about What Was That? Your Arts Organization Needs Funding? Get In Line.
Nonprofit Arts Success in a Changing Environment, Tip 5 — You Can’t Do It Alone
The work to deprogram cultish minds is dangerous. Get help. Lots of it. In the new/old world order of Trumpian policy, your arts organization faces the real possibility that, in the face of anti-arts, anti-education, and anti-truth political muckraking euphemistically calling itself “populism,” it will be shut down. To combat that, we’ve talked about: The most … [Read more...] about Nonprofit Arts Success in a Changing Environment, Tip 5 — You Can’t Do It Alone
Nonprofit Arts Success in a Changing Environment, Tip 2: Don’t Even THINK About Dumbing It Down
The second tip: for a nonprofit organization to work, pandering is off-limits. Take it from a notorious panderer from a family of panderers. When your nonprofit arts organization’s tax exemption comes to mind, do you believe that it is a right earned by paying money to a lawyer to file the paperwork, a privilege that requires promise fulfillment to the people of your … [Read more...] about Nonprofit Arts Success in a Changing Environment, Tip 2: Don’t Even THINK About Dumbing It Down
Nonprofit Arts Organizations: If You Can’t Beat ’Em, Join ’Em? Really?
With an empowered anti-arts, anti-education, and anti-culture base running the country, this is the time to commit to your community, not fall into the trap of cancelling them. It’s all gone topsy-turvy. We live in New America now. Ironically, the group that wanted to “Make America Great Again” has moved the country in a completely different direction than ever. We … [Read more...] about Nonprofit Arts Organizations: If You Can’t Beat ’Em, Join ’Em? Really?