Capacity Building

September 30, 2008 by giarts-ts-admin

2008, 23 pages. TCC Group, 31 West 27th Street, 4th Floor, New York, NY 10001, (212) 949-0990

http://www.tccgrp.com/pdfs/MaximizingFoundationEffectiveness.pdf

May 31, 2008 by giarts-ts-admin

How can funders apply what they know about changes in the external environment—in demographics, use of free time, use of disposable income—to best serve and stabilize theaters and other mid-sized arts groups?

Sue Coliton, Paul G. Allen Family Foundation (moderator); Nancy Fushan, Bush Foundation; Lawrence Thoo, San Jose Office of Cultural Affairs; Ben Cameron, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation (interlocutors).

Operating Support Grants

May 31, 2008 by giarts-ts-admin

A continuation of the discussion on strategic operating support grants. Do these grants improve an organization's accountability and stability? How do private and public grantmakers sustain the arts ecosystem without creating an over-dependence on any one funder? When providing strategic operating support for organizational change, where does the funder's role end and the arts organization's board of directors' role begin and end?

Accountability vs. Trust

National Arts Stabilization in Arizona

April 30, 2007 by giarts-ts-admin

1998, 20 pages, The Flinn Foundation, 3300 North Central Avenue, Suite 2300, Phoenix, Arizona 85012, 602-274-9000, info[at]flinn.org

April 30, 2007 by giarts-ts-admin

What is the financial health of the nonprofit sector and how do arts organizations compare with other nonprofits? A year-long study of the financial health of Illinois state's nonprofit sector — including the arts — provides a tool to begin answering such questions.

Investing in Leadership, Vol. 1

June 30, 2006 by giarts-ts-admin

2005, 36 pages. Grantmakers for Effective Organizations, 1413 K Street, 2nd floor, Washington, DC 20005, 202-898-1840, www.geofunders.org

The Warhol Initiative

June 30, 2006 by giarts-ts-admin

2005. Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, 65 Bleecker Street, 7th floor, New York, NY 10012-2420, 212-387-7555.

This book chronicles the Warhol Foundation's five-year initiative to build capacity of thirty-one small contemporary visual arts organizations located throughout the country. This ambitious program awarded $125,000 to each organization and provided additional technical assistance according to their needs. The challenging typography, layout, and binding of the book convey a strong sense of the organizations portrayed.

A Funder's Guide to Evaluation

September 30, 2005 by giarts-ts-admin

2005, 139 pages. Grantmakers for Effective Organizations, Fieldstone Alliance Publishing Center, Saint Paul, MN, 55107

In this guide, York promotes the concept of "evaluative learning" to help funders use evaluation to build capacity and increased effectiveness in their grantees' organizations. Examinations of capacity building, organizational effectiveness, current and typical uses of evaluations, and the philosophy of evaluations lead to a step-by-step, soup-to-nuts guide to planning for and implementing evaluative learning.

October 31, 2003 by giarts-ts-admin

April 2001, 96 pages. The Urban Institute, 2100 M Street N.W., Washington, D.C. 20037 (202) 833-0687

Arts LAB

September 1, 2003 by giarts-ts-admin

2003, 13 pages. Saint Paul Foundation, 651-224-5463, www.saintpaulfoundation.org

Arts LAB reports on a three-year pilot program developed by a collaborative of six Twin Cities foundations, convened by the Saint Paul Foundation, to strengthen small and mid-sized arts organizations in Minneapolis and St. Paul.