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Thoughts on “Thoughts on Effective Philanthropy”: Lessons from my Summer...
As the twenty or so regular readers of this blog will note, I debuted Createquity last October with a rather brash six-episode litany of “Thoughts on Effective Philanthropy” in the realm of the arts. I...
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Revisiting GiveWell
I’ve been following the story of GiveWell pretty closely for about a year now, and continue to find the organization a seemingly inexhaustible source of entertainment and life lessons all wrapped up...
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Fictional Foundation Fun, part II
So, yesterday we took a look at the $800 million Ortiz Foundation for the Arts (OFA), a hypothetical new organization focusing on promoting cultural vitality in New York City. After some discussion, we...
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Lessons I Learned in Business School (Or, My Humble Attempt to Save You $150k)
I really didn’t know what to expect when I came to business school in the fall of 2007. I had lived my whole post-college life in the nonprofit sector, and most of that time was spent hanging around...
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Microphilanthropy
My first post from the AFTA Convention a couple of weeks ago provoked several comments about microphilanthropy, based on Craig Dreeszen’s observation that “support for individual entrepreneurs” is a...
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Grantmaker-Spotting in the Windy City
This week, I spent three-plus days in Chicago to catch the annual Grantmakers in the Arts Conference. Some of you might remember that I blogged last year’s conference in Brooklyn for GIA; it was an...
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Arts Centers and Real Estate: Sustainable Business Model?
Playhouse Square (photo by Ron Dauphin) “Sustainability” and “community development” are ideals that many arts organizations strive to uphold. They want to stand on their own two feet financially, and...
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Arts Policy Library: Arts, Inc.
This is a long piece. If you’d like the very short version, you can find it here. In Arts, Inc., Bill Ivey, former Chair of the National Endowment for the Arts from 1998-2001 and Director of the Curb...
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Arts, Inc.: brevity version
This article is a much shorter version of this. If you want the full force of my verbosity, read that one. In Arts, Inc., Bill Ivey, former Chair of the NEA, makes the case that our artistic heritage...
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The challenges we face
Michael Kaiser wants us to focus on the reason why we do it (the art, silly!), but I’m more struck by his succinct diagnosis of why arts institutions are in scary times: The development of new...
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Solving the Underpants Gnomes Problem: Towards an Evidence-Based Arts Policy
That’s the title of a talk I presented via the University of Chicago’s Cultural Policy Center on November 14, 2012. It’s long, but I think it’s one of the more significant things I’ve done recently and...
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Around the horn: Big Brother edition
ART AND THE GOVERNMENT A lot of people are talking about the news that Detroit’s emergency fiscal manager is exploring whether the city-owned art on display at the Detroit Institute of Arts (which I...
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Around the horn: General Sisi edition
Happy 4th of July! I’m going to be on vacation for the next couple of weeks, but Createquity is not. You’ll continue to see new posts and comments will be approved, albeit at a slower rate than usual....
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Around the horn: A-Rod edition
(Assembled collaboratively by the Createquity editorial team) ART AND THE GOVERNMENT The US Bureau of Economic Analysis, following new international standards, has adjusted the official method for...
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Fractured Atlas as a Learning Organization: An Introduction
(Cross-posted from the Fractured Atlas blog, as I expect many Createquity readers will be interested in this series. -IDM) If you’ve been paying any attention at all to technology trends the past few...
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Landmark Victory for Proponents of Net Neutrality (and other February stories)
The Internet — photo by flickr user HD Zimmermann The protracted battle over net neutrality (covered by Createquity this last month, and in November, May, April, March, February, and January of last...
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A New Way to Think About Intrinsic vs. Instrumental Benefits of the Arts
For well over a decade now, advocates have fiercely contested whether the arts should be valued more for their ability to further non-arts goals, like public health or economic development, or for the...
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Introducing Createquity’s New Editorial Team Members
Last fall, after we announced an open call for new editorial team members alongside the relaunch of our website, we were overwhelmed by the largest and most enthusiastic response to any opportunity...
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Big Tech Wants a Piece of the Performing Arts Action (and other March stories)
Red — photo by flickr user André Hofmeister Income from streaming services eclipsed CD sales for the first time in 2014, and the fatcats have taken notice. This month, Apple, which spent $3 billion to...
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Wanna Build Bridges? Come Work with Us!
Createquity is pleased to announce an opening on our editorial team with a focus on alliance building. We are looking for a natural-born communicator with the time, energy, and smarts to join our merry...
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