With the preponderance of depressing headlines about the US economy, those of us in the arts should be proud to know that it’s an industry that continues to experience growth. That’s according to the UN’s report on the global creative economy, released on April 20th.
The report itself is an ambitious and dense 357-page read that [...]
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Fractured Atlas received some wonderful news recently when the New York State Health Foundation awarded us a $25,000 grant to support a targeted effort to enroll artists in affordable health care.
The initiative will launch later this year, and focus on areas throughout New York State, namely: Buffalo, Erie County, Saratoga, Peekskill, Brooklyn, and Queens. We’ll [...]
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My morning coffee-philanthropy-blog-graze yielded this post on the Donor Power Blog about the furor dusted up when the Holden Karnofsky, the head of GiveWell (an online charity evaluator) committed the cardinal sin of posting an “anonymous” question on Metafilter’s boards about how to evaluate charitable orgs, then answering it with a plug of GiveWell’s services. [...]
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