I found a great website for nonprofit financial management yesterday. It is basically an online library. I wanted to post it here because I think it could be very helpful to start-ups and those considering forming a nonprofit arts organization. Enjoy!
I’d like to revisit my first post, in which I deemed “American Idol” as art. No, I have not changed my stance. Instead, I’d like to elaborate on how the TV shows we’ve denounced have actually enhanced the arts in this country. Many artists condemn these shows for promoting amateur/unprofessional/low-quality art and artists. They don’t [...]
The Public Theater has announced a new program to “nurture promising talent in an effort to cultivate new voices for the American theater.”
The Public intends to accept 12-15 playwrights to join the Emerging Writers Group for one year. Each will receive a $3,000 stipend and participate in a biweekly writers group led by the Public’s [...]
Today’s onPhilanthropy discusses the trend among institutional funders (including some serious old school stalwarts) to award grants through ostensibly transparent online contests.
I think contests are incredibly cool. Ever since the famous longitude prize of 1714, they’ve proven to be an extremely efficient, cost-effective, and democratic way of solving thorny problems. This has been [...]
For over a year now, Fractured Atlas has been working on offering some new nationally-available health insurance plans through Assurant. This has been a rocky, painful, frustrating process (for a whole bunch of reasons that I’d tell you about over drinks but not in this blog). I’m very happy to say that we’re [...]
A big thanks goes out to New York City Council Member Melissa Mark Viverito for co-hosting a meet-and-greet with Fractured Atlas members last night in East Harlem. The event was low-key and intimate, which was great for actually giving people a chance to chat with the council member.
I kept thinking last night that artists [...]
“We are trying to help create ‘globally literate students,’ ” says Suzi Myers, co-artistic director of World Dance Theatre and resident dancer. No small feat considering the red tape nightmare that is most American public school systems. “It was a challenge, to say the least.” But the members of World Dance Theatre don’t shy away [...]
Kudos to long-time Fractured Atlas member Rooftop Films for the long profile and gigantic photo in this morning’s NY Times. I’ve worked with Mark Rosenberg and the rest of the Rooftop team since both organizations’ paleolithic eras and I consider them (if I may be so arrogant as to claim some tiny credit for [...]
As you may have heard, the NYC Mayor’s Office of Film, Theatre, and Broadcasting is proposing some strict new rules (actually, they claim they’re codifying existing rules) on permit requirements for very small film shoots. The proposed rules require permits for shoots with a handheld camera that last more than 30 minutes or those [...]
The MIT economist, Jonathan Gruber, who consulted on the creation of the Massachusetts healthcare reform plan and who is now working with California on their plan has released a nationalized version of the Massachusetts model.
I’m very impressed with what they’ve been able to pull off politically in Massachusetts, but I do have some serious concerns: [...]
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