Last week the, the National Endowment for the Arts released three new research monographs some of you might want to check out: Beyond Attendance: A Multi-Modal Understanding of Arts Participation, by Jennifer L. Novak-Leonard and Alan S. Brown. Arts Education in America: What the Declines Mean for Arts Participation, by Nick Rabkin and E.C. Hedberg, [...]
Join ELNYA and our friends in celebrating the release of the 20UNDER4 anthology this Monday 12/13. 20UNDER40: Re-Inventing the Arts and Arts Education for the 21st Century kicks off a bold new dialogue concerning the future of the arts and arts education. Featuring 20 essays written by arts leaders under the age of 40, 20UNDER40 [...]
Ten Nonprofit Funding Models For-profit executives use business models—such as “low-cost provider” or “the razor and the razor blade”—as a shorthand way to describe and understand the way companies are built and sustained. Nonprofit executives, to their detriment, are not as explicit about their funding models and have not had an equivalent lexicon—until now. By [...]
(via the James Irvine Foundation) This report highlights five key trends and how their coming together will shape the social sector of the future. Based on extensive review of existing research and in-depth interviews with thought leaders and nonprofit leaders and activists, it explores the trends (Demographic Shifts; Technological Advances; Networks Enabling Work to be [...]