Tuesday, August 30, 2016
Non-Profit Quarterly had a piece last week about an effort to “help” non-profits that is flawed on so many levels. An advertising company has created a site, Clickbait For Good w…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 01:02AM[SHARE]Friday, August 26, 2016
It can be difficult to communicate the different legal regulations that non-profits operate under in order to help people understand what your organization can and can’t do. Non Profit…
SOURCE: artshacker.com at 03:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 25, 2016
This morning, The Atlantic published a story about The Plight of the Overworked Nonprofit Employee that addresses the conflict non-profits face between paying employees well and devoting fun…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 12:02AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 23, 2016
Harvard Business Review had a short piece about a study that found that having a back-up plan often undermines one’s motivation to succeed. The interviewer specifically uses an exa…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 11:42PM[SHARE]Monday, August 22, 2016
I frequently write about why arguing the benefits of the arts based on their instrumental value (e.g. improves economy or test scores) is a bad approach because it depends on an absence of a…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 11:19PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 17, 2016
Maria Popova made a BrainPickings post about Elliott Schwartz’s book, Music: Ways of Listening, about four years ago. The link to it just came to my attention recently. Popova notes, &…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 09:37PM[SHARE]A few months ago, I wrote about How Financial Statements Are Born, which explained how different financial statements were related to one another. A supplement to that is a How To Be A Finan…
SOURCE: artshacker.com at 03:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 16, 2016
Via Non-Profit Quarterly is a brief story about the Farm to Ballet Project which is taking agricultural themed ballet to about nine farms throughout Vermont this summer. (Their second season…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 09:24PM[SHARE]Monday, August 15, 2016
Our friends at the Non-Profit Happy Hour Facebook group shared the Furniture Bank’s Charity Overhead Manifesto. In the post, the Furniture Bank talks about how much damage resistance t…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 09:02PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 11, 2016
When it comes to Shakespeare, I feel like it is worth taking the time to sit and allow yourself to adjust to the language and rhythms rather than dismissing it outright as too impenetrable. …
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 12:52AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 10, 2016
Can a creative person afford not to attend to the business details and promotion/branding of their practice these days? Cal Newport, perhaps unwittingly, wades into the longstanding debate a…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 12:46AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 9, 2016
I am a little embarrassed that it hasn’t occurred to me to post about this sooner. Here on the old blogosphere, general Internet, at conferences, in coffee houses and on the street whe…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 12:21AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 3, 2016
Last week I made a post about “rebranding” overhead costs in other terms in order to get away from the associated stigma. Included in the post, I mentioned that a non-profit was …
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 10:22PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 2, 2016
Last month, Americans for the Arts blog was printing excerpts from the writing of Robert E. Gard who primary focused on manifesting the Wisconsin Idea through theater and creative writing st…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 10:10PM[SHARE]Monday, August 1, 2016
The journal Nautilus had an interesting piece about the value of silence. The article starts out talking about how 100 Finnish marketing experts met to discuss how to promote the country for…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 09:39PM[SHARE]With an increasing number of people looking to make donations online, your organizational website has to perform many of the functions that an in-person or mailed appeal have performed in th…
SOURCE: artshacker.com at 03:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 27, 2016
Ever since I first heard them mentioned during our state arts council’s grant panel discussion, I have been keeping an eye on the PorchRokr Festival up near Akron. The hook of the fest…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 07:53PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 26, 2016
FastCoExist recently continued its discussion about how a poor view of non-profit overhead cost is limiting the good such organizations can do by offering some “rebranding” sugge…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 07:21PM[SHARE]Monday, July 25, 2016
In a move that I like to see as reinforcing the importance of orchestra musicians in a time where their value is being diminished during contract negotiations, a long time supporter of the D…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 07:12PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 20, 2016
Awhile back Barry Hessenius asked me to write a “What I Have Learned” essay for his blog. He noted that in the past he often featured similar pieces written by people who were ap…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 11:51PM[SHARE]We frequently read discussions about the need to communicate the differences between the business models of for-profit and non-profits. What there is less conversation about is the differenc…
SOURCE: artshacker.com at 03:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 19, 2016
Since I seem to have started on a philosophical kick this week, how about we consider Richard Feynman’s “Ode To A Flower” commentary in the video below? You can also see it…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 11:16PM[SHARE]Monday, July 18, 2016
High Expectations of Cultural Experiences Last week I wrote about Ken Davenport’s admonition that an arts experience not exceed a person’s expectations by too large a margin. As …
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 10:48PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 13, 2016
Well here is a novel idea for funding an arts organization–using the proceeds from leasing space in storage vaults. The inspiration for building the largest underground storage vault i…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 09:25PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 12, 2016
A recent post on Ken Davenport’s The Producer’s Perspective caused me to engage in a bit of internal debate. Ken says a one of the worst things you can do is greatly exceed audie…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 09:07PM[SHARE]Monday, July 11, 2016
I was walking in to work on Saturday and met a woman who has offices in the arts center who told me that there was a Pokemon in the fountain in front of the building. Sure enough, as part of…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 02:36PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 7, 2016
Some time back I read a piece on the Bridgespan Group’s website that made me realize that non-profits and funders/donors may adopt similarly flawed approaches to addressing social issu…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 01:21AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 6, 2016
The United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) website has a guide for running museums written by the International Council of Museums (ICOM). The guide, Running…
SOURCE: artshacker.com at 03:00AM[SHARE]For the last month or so I have been trying to figure out why, depending on the discipline, different elements of an artist’s background signal quality. I realized that when people on …
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 01:06AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 29, 2016
Okay, I know this week I posted a piece that continued my long standing assertion that talking about the economic impact of the arts is not an effective way to garner long term support and i…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 11:18PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 28, 2016
Long time readers will know that for the last year or so I have been a bit of an evangelist for the burgeoning effort to Build Public Will For Arts and Culture. What impresses me about the e…
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