Thursday, August 25, 2011
A partnership of GuideStar USA, Independent Sector and BBB Wise Giving Alliance has created a free online tool, Charting Impact, which non-profits and foundations can use to assess themselve…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 12:53AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 24, 2011
Interesting piece on the Chronicle of Philanthropy about the responsibilities of non-profit boards to attend to the dissolution of their organizations. Janet Kleinfelter, a deputy attorney g…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 04:02AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Since the publication of Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers, the idea that you need 10,000 hours of practice to master a discipline/skill has started to become something of an article of fait…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 03:56AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 18, 2011
Hat tip to Rosetta Thurman. To paraphrase Thoreau (or The United States Magazine and Democratic Review), apparently the social media policy which is best governs least. According to a piece …
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 02:19AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 17, 2011
I just finished Neal Stephenson’s The Confusion wherein a group sails from the Philippines to California around the start of the 18th century. Not quite knowing how to get there, the c…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 12:59AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 16, 2011
Currently I am involved in talking with architects to plan a renovation for our theatre. Part of this will involve razing and moving our ticket office. In the course of other theatre design …
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 12:31AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 11, 2011
Rosetta Thurman posted her 15 Powerful Questions to Ask Yourself About Your Nonprofit Career Many of her questions dealt with personal ambitions and what image you had of ideal situations. T…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 02:11AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 10, 2011
Hat tip to Emily Chan at Non Profit Law blog for sharing a link to a Blue Avocado piece on how personnel files should be maintained. More specifically, what information should not be stored …
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 04:01AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 9, 2011
In the course of this blog I have posted about great customer service experiences I have encountered. I have also mentioned some superlative performances to which I have been witness. Never …
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 12:17AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 4, 2011
I have only just gotten around to following up on my bookmark of John Killacky’s Regrets of A Former Arts Funder. If you hadn’t read it when it came out in late June, Killacky re…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 01:43AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 3, 2011
Welcome readers of You’ve Cott Mail and myriad other places. I appreciate your interest in the blog and yesterday’s entry about speaking more honestly about how an arts experienc…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 12:18AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 2, 2011
I wasn’t quite sure what I was going to post about today, but Adam Thurman at Mission Paradox decided me with his post today about reducing the opportunities for audiences to be anxiou…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 04:19AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 28, 2011
Scott Walters over at Theatre Ideas has been looking at how the National Endowment for the Arts distributed funds for its “Our Town” grant program. In the last three posts on the…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 01:16AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 27, 2011
Daniel Grant had a piece on the Huffington Post about a new trend in visual arts M.F.A. programs where training is tailored to students’ particular interests. He references the program…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 12:52AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 26, 2011
Thanks to the hard work of Inside the Arts mother hen, Drew McManus, Butts in the Seats has a new look. And if I can figure out how to fully exploit some of the new features I see on the new…
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