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
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Nonprofit Arts Success in a Changing Environment, Tip 1: Stop Terrorizing Your People
The first tip: for a nonprofit organization to work, everyone has to care about why they’re there; otherwise, there’s no need for them to stay. Over the next few years, your nonprofit arts organization will be tasked with trying to succeed in a local and national environment not terribly interested in your work. Certainly not your art. It is with that in mind that we … [Read more...] about Nonprofit Arts Success in a Changing Environment, Tip 1: Stop Terrorizing Your People
The Case for Support: Mixed Blood Theatre Produces Positive, Quantifiable Impact for the People of Minneapolis
There is a theater company sitting right in the heart of America that dedicates every activity, every program, and every human interaction to the notion of radical hospitality. The idea of “radical hospitality” is not new. The Torah: “The strangers who sojourn with you shall be to you as the natives among you, and you shall love them as yourself; for you were strangers … [Read more...] about The Case for Support: Mixed Blood Theatre Produces Positive, Quantifiable Impact for the People of Minneapolis
Measuring the Arts is Impossible – Which Is Why Funders Should Measure Charitable Impact Instead
Imagine what would happen if foundations and corporate donors funded not by grantee promises or relationships, but by their deeds and impact instead. Ah well, a man can dream, can’t he? Imagine a world in which nonprofit arts organizations are given every tool they need to succeed. Or, in lieu of that, enough money to care for their communities, provide needed services, … [Read more...] about Measuring the Arts is Impossible – Which Is Why Funders Should Measure Charitable Impact Instead
So. THAT Happened. Now What?
Regardless of the elections, the issues haven’t changed for US nonprofit arts organizations. But the stakes are higher than ever. It’s been a week since election day, and rather than discussing that process, let’s take a moment to congratulate whichever ones of us survived the last couple of years. We may not last through the next four, but at least we’ve gotten this … [Read more...] about So. THAT Happened. Now What?