WNYC recently broadcast a segment that touched on the “grey-ing” of the non-profit arts sector. It’s a familiar subject that most artists have heard plenty about: The audience for the arts is gradually getting older and unless an effort is made to engage a younger demographic, many art institutions will die with its patrons.
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The Community Arts Network is publishing a series of “bridge conversations”:
“Bridge Conversations: People Who Live and Work in Multiple Worlds,” [is] a series of 18 conversations commissioned by the Center for Civic Participation’s Arts & Democracy Project and the Community Arts Network. These conversations highlight a diverse group of people — including artists, community activists, [...]
Philanthropy.com reports on a proposal for a new kind of for-profit / non-profit hybrid entity: the L3C:
[T]he low-profit, limited liability company, or L3C is designed to increase the number of program-related investments, or PRI’s, that foundations make in social-purpose businesses by making those enterprises easier to find. Proponents hope that foundation investment in those ventures [...]
This morning I heard on the radio about a new art group in San Francisco with a radical business model: selling “subscriptions” to new works by contemporary artists. From their website:
THE THING is an object based quarterly publication. Each issue of THE THING is conceived of by an individual artist, reproduced and wrapped by [...]
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