The video archive of the NEA’s Cultural Workforce Forum, a day-long presentation of research by primarily East-coast academics, and short on front-line practitioners, is now available in its entirety. – Tommer
Here’s the link to the archive
Through their private foundations, many notable individuals have made significant contributions to help underserved populations and provide support for medical research, green technology, and countless other causes they care about. This new directory, in downloadable PDF format, includes detailed descriptions of more than 1,600 foundations started by VIPs in the fields of business, entertainment, politics, [...]
A major new survey of American artists and how they are weathering the economic downturn has found that slightly more than half experienced a drop in income from 2008 to 2009, a blow to an already struggling group, two thirds of whose members reported that they earned less than $40,000 last year.
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Neuroeducation: Learning, Arts, and the Brain, the culmination of a summit sponsored by The Johns Hopkins University School of Education’s Neuro-Education Initiative, focuses on the convergence of neuroscientific research and teaching and learning, with an emphasis on the arts.
This free publication features a prolegomenon by the late Dana Chairman William Safire and full text of [...]
Lucy Bernholz offers some insight into new online tools for data in this post on PHILANTHROPY 2173.
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Foundation giving will likely decline by more than 10 percent in 2009, closer to the higher end of the 8 to 13 percent range estimated by the Foundation Center earlier this year. According to September 2009 survey findings released today in Foundations’ Year-end Outlook for Giving and the Sector, foundation giving will also decline further [...]
The Arts & Civic Engagement Impact Initiative is informed and guided by a Working Group of arts practitioners, researchers, evaluators, and funders with keen interest in understanding the social and civic impact of arts-based civic engagement work. This briefing paper, prepared by Chris Dwyer of RMC Research, offered the Working Group a “springboard” for discussion [...]
Based on 13 years of national research on integrating arts and culture into concepts of healthy communities, Senior Research Associate with the Urban Institute Maria Rosario Jackson observes how sound and worthy community arts programs with social and civic intention are often saddled with unrealistic expectations about the impacts that they might have on a [...]
High school graduation rates and access to arts education are closely linked, according to a new study of New York City public high schools released today by The Center for Arts Education.
The report — titled “Staying in School: Arts Education and New York City High School Graduation Rates” — is the first-known analysis of [...]
This report focuses on how community philanthropies – community foundations, loan funds, and others – are using mission investing to address these fundamental inequities in their communities. The social inequities shaped by race, ethnicity, class, and gender and sexual orientation are exacerbated by inequitable access to capital. Success stories abound of community driven efforts to [...]
Statement from NEA Chairman Rocco Landesman
September 22, 2009
As chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, I would like to clarify the issues concerning an August conference call in which an NEA employee participated.
Here are the facts.
Fact 1: The former NEA Director of Communications helped organize and participated in an August 10th conference call to [...]
This study examines the effects of music and positive emotional states on autonomic and immune function in normal, healthy individuals. Autonomic activity was assessed using power spectral density analysis of heart rate variability, and salivary IgA was used as a marker of immunity.
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Greg Sandow takes on Chorus America’s research publication on ArtsJournal
This post makes me just a little sad to write. Chorus America, a while ago, published the results of a study, which they say shows that people who sing in choruses are exceptionally good citizens. They then say that choruses should bring this information to the [...]
A new repot from Chorus America
If you enjoy singing with your neighbors, congregation, or classmates, you’re taking an increasingly popular path to a successful life. According to a new study by Chorus America, an estimated 32.5 million adults regularly sing in choruses today, up from 23.5 million estimated in 2003. And when children are included, [...]
PACE invites members and network affiliates to Civic Engagement and the Arts, a webinar offered in cooperation with Americans for the Arts on Friday, May 8, 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. (Eastern). The webinar shares highlights and recommendations from the 2008 National Arts Policy Roundtable, an annual forum of Americans for the Arts and the Sundance [...]
The Foundation Center has created an interactive map of resources for non-profits seeking information on resources for gaining access to stimulus package funding. The act includes new or expanded government grant programs designed to provide assistance to communities or individuals affected by the economic crisis. Nonprofit organizations interested in applying for grants provided by the [...]
Three articles in the current issue of Dance USA Journal address aspects of evolution and change in dance companies that also have application in other arts organizations and will be of interest to dance funders as those who fund in other disciplines.
Sorting it Out: Founder Dynamics and Transitions
by Gregory Kandel and David Mallette
Navigating Change: Succession [...]
Taking Part, a new report from Arts Council England, makes the case that childhood arts experience plays a major role in adult arts participation.
Findings include:
• being encouraged to get involved in the arts as a child increases the chances of being an active arts consumer as an adult
• the effect of childhood experience is very strong, nearing [...]
Assets at the nation’s largest private foundations fell by a median of 28 percent from 2007 to 2008, and 40 percent of grant makers who participated in a new Chronicle survey say they expect giving to decline in 2009.
The Chronicle’s survey found that 104 of the largest grant makers lost more than $50-billion in assets [...]
