Voter-determined Corporate Giving II: Tweeting for Votes

(7-20-10) Further to our July 2nd post on community-vote-based corporate giving, Kate Taylor reports on ArtsBeat about a Lincoln Center employee who used Twitter to issue a call to arms against fellow American Express grant candidate StoryCorps. The arts community responded:

“Should funding be this kind of competition?” Howard Sherman, the executive director of the American Theater Wing, asked via Twitter.

“That’s a little icky,” Kathleen Powers, a stage director, wrote.

“Kinda makes me want to vote for StoryCorps …” Ms. Powers added in a subsequent post.

“I don’t want to vote at all,” Amy Wratchford, the managing director of the American Shakespeare Center in Staunton, Va., said. “Funding should NOT be a popularity contest.”