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 [...]
The Financial Times reports on the increasing number of MBAs working in the non-profit sector:
In the past, executives seeking qualifications that would help them in the non-profit sector headed to policy schools or took programmes in education or non-profit management. “Now a lot more people are going the MBA route,” says Mel Ochoa, who graduated [...]
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 piece originally appeared as an article in the Fractured Atlas newsletter on April 15, 2004.
This art stuff is a tough racket. High-profile success stories aside, non-commercial creative enterprises operate in the red. Brutal cash-flow cycles, limited financing options, and competition from mass market media combine to paint a grim portrait of [...]
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