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Here’s a concise history of Federal Cultural Programs of the 1930s by Don Adams and Arlene Goldbard.

President of the Reinvestment Fund and Federal Reserve Board Member in Philadelphia, Jeremy Nowak presented a rousing explanation of how we got into this mess that included some insightful thoughts about the role of the arts in civil society. You … Continue reading →

Andrew Taylor, Director of the Bolz Center for Arts Administration, blogs some big-picture thinking on “the idea of the ‘adaptive cycle,’ a recurring pattern that appears in most natural, social, market, or other systems, at different speeds and scales over … Continue reading →

With the economy in the toilet, the topic of nonprofit mergers is on the rise in the foundation community. Here are five quick ideas for how foundations can help make mergers happen: 1) Combine. Make it known that if two … Continue reading →

“Operationalizing” high impact philanthropy is not easy. Physicians, firemen, and paramedics have long used a triage process to allocate resources immediately to those most in need where resources are insufficient to meet all needs. Modern approaches to triage have become … Continue reading →

“It’s a terrific time for foundations to look at PRIs. Certainly one big question foundations face in the current climate is how to meet community needs in very tough times, without spending the corpus of the foundation endowment.” — Carol … Continue reading →

Rick Cohen in The NonProfit Times writes: “How can a half trillion dollars of tax-exempt assets sitting in foundation coffers help the U.S. overcome the deepening national economic recession? As the Rockefeller Foundation observed in July based on a public … Continue reading →

Director of the Curb Center for Art, Enterprise, and Public Policy at Vanderbilt University and head of the Obama Administration transition team on arts and culture, Ivey spoke about the current nonprofit arts environment at the 2008 GIA conference in … Continue reading →

This is a time to be part of the conversation, right? This is a time in your world to understand that you can’t be sort of on the side in the background of this, because you deal with arts and … Continue reading →

Jeremy Nowak (president, The Reinvestment Fund, and member, Federal Reserve Board in Philadelphia) presented insightful thoughts about the role of the arts in civil society within an explanation of how we got into this economic mess. Download a quick summary … Continue reading →