The last few years have seen a lot of backlash against the (once novel, now rather conventional) idea that arts organizations ought to strive to be “businesslike”. What’s so great about for-profit businesses, after all? From Enron to AIG, the last decade has seen one businesslike catastrophe after another.
At Fractured Atlas, meanwhile, we’ve always been [...]
Fractured Atlas is proud to announce the launch of its third Fractured U. video workshop: The Business of Charity in the New Economy.
From the good people at Philanthropy Reports comes this video about the non-profit sector. This is great ammunition for the next time someone tells you that non-profits aren’t real businesses.
(If the embedded video isn’t appearing for you, watch it online here.)
via Tactical Philanthropy
We are extremely excited to announce our latest addition to the FREE online courses available at Fractured U. - “All the Accounting You Need to Know” by longtime Fractured Atlas member and fiscal sponsee, Grace Testani.
Arts Wisconsin builds and sustains support and visibility for the arts statewide, promotes arts advocacy at all levels, and enables Wisconsin’s artists and arts activists to realize their full potential as community leaders.
Believing that the cultivation of new art and ideas is essential to human progress, the mission of the Alliance for Artists Communities is to advocate for and support artists’ communities, in order to advance the endeavors of artists. The Alliance gives a collective voice on behalf of its members that leverages support for the field as a whole; promotes successful practices in the field; and advocates for creative environments that support the work of today’s artists.
Springboard for the Arts aims to cultivate a vibrant arts community in the Upper Midwest by connecting artists with the skills, information and services they need to make a living and a life. Today’s is the first in a regular series of profiles of our Open Arts Network partner organizations.
As a kid I wanted to be Janet Jackson.
I played the cassette of her Control album until the tape broke, choreographing routines, imaging the day I would enjoy her fame/fortune and say (with her conviction)…“Now I’m all grown up!”
Well, you can imagine my joy when (at nine years old) my dad put me in the [...]
Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts is offering an intensive new program about the legal and business issues that affect individual artists and individuals within arts cultural institutions who make and work in film, music and interactive media. Fractured Atlas members can receive a discount to this event by contacting our staff for a discount code.
Sessions [...]
Once upon a time, non-profit organizations had two different kinds of revenue: “earned” and “unearned”. Earned revenue was the money from ticket sales, admissions, and other services. Unearned revenue came from grants and contributions.
At some point, it occurred to someone that calling a major source of income “unearned” made us all sound like a pretty [...]
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