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Where Has All the Grassroots Touring Gone?

September 30, 2008 by giarts-ts-admin

2007, 304 pages. Published by Community Arts Network, www.communityarts.net

www.communityarts.net/readingroom/archivefiles/2006/06/where_has_all_t.php

arts, inc.

August 31, 2008 by giarts-ts-admin

2008, 328 pages. Published by University of California Press

Understanding Boston

May 31, 2008 by giarts-ts-admin

2007, 79 pages. The Boston Foundation, 75 Arlington Street, Boston, MA 02116, (617) 338-1700, www.tbf.org
PDF Online: www.bostonindicators.org

May 31, 2008 by giarts-ts-admin

Is a trend developing that favors drawing foundation leaders from the for-profit sector rather than from philanthropy or the nonprofit sector? If so, does it change senior grantmaking staff's challenges and opportunities? Would a more corporate view of private philanthropy affect how foundations view the arts?

Creative Capital

May 31, 2008 by giarts-ts-admin

2007, 33 pages. City of Santa Monica, Community and Cultural Services Dept., 1437 4th Street, Suite 310, PO Box 2200, Santa Monica, CA 90407

Evaluation. Good to Great.

May 31, 2008 by giarts-ts-admin

When assessing the results of the work of arts organizations, do we measure the right things? Can we measure whether the art itself is good? This continues a dialogue that began in GIA Reader, Vol. 17, No. 3.

Bruce Sievers, Skirball Foundation; Diane Ragsdale, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (co-presenters, moderators); Suzanne Callahan, Dance USA (interlocutor).

Creative Vitality in Oregon 2006

May 31, 2008 by giarts-ts-admin

2007, 17 pages. Oregon Arts Commission, 775 Summer Street NE, Suite 200, Salem, Oregon 97301, (503) 986-0082

May 31, 2008 by giarts-ts-admin

A conversation between essayist John Rockwell and Linda Breneman (Breneman Jaech Foundation) about cultural patronage today, from the perspectives of a journalist and an individual donor. Funders with varying relationships to living patrons, donors' estates, and philanthropic institutions chime in on how risky, enduring art is—or might be—supported.

The Effective Exit

May 31, 2008 by giarts-ts-admin

2007, 27 pages. Grantcraft, The Ford Foundation, 320 East 43rd Street, New York, NY 10017, (212) 573-4879, www.grantcraft.org
PDF online: www.grantcraft.com

Leadership Transition

May 31, 2008 by giarts-ts-admin

Are we helping nonprofits prepare themselves for the challenges of future leadership transition?

Jennifer Hill, Ruth Mott Foundation (moderator); Lauren Renee Hayes, Grants for the Arts/San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund; Lisa Mount, Alternate ROOTS (interlocutors).