We’ve just added a new tab of information to our Live Membership Stats page that lists a breakdown of the Fractured Atlas membership by U.S. congressional district. I find this stuff fascinating, but I realize I’m a big nerd. Anyway, take a look if you’re interested!
(My thanks to Jean Cook of the Future of Music Coalition and Fractured Atlas’s Adam Huttler for their contributions to this piece.)
We hear a lot of talk about the coming leadership transition in the arts. Baby Boomers are nearing retirement age, and Gen X’ers and Millennials are itching to take on increased responsibility. It’s important [...]
We’ve got a nifty new feature on the Fractured Atlas website: a live membership stats page. There are only a few stats on there for now, including total current membership, recent sign ups, and a state-by-state breakdown. Check it out and let us know what you think.
Any ideas for other stats you’d like to [...]
What’s the single most crucial component of an arts organization’s infrastructure? For many, it’s their ticketing software. Consider that:
It’s a funnel through which most or all of their revenue flows.
It provides their best or only chance of collecting information about patrons.
It often serves as the primary medium for presenting information about upcoming events.
Rubber, allow me [...]
On a cold, rainy, miserable day, the Fractured Atlas triathlon team made its long anticipated debut yesterday. I’m proud to report that all three teams finished, and that the Half-Ironman relay team of Elizabeth, Tim, and me left with a trophy for coming in 3rd place in our (not very competitive) bracket.
As a whole, everything [...]
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 [...]
I spent the first half of this week at the Fortune Tech Conference. Usually when I go to events like this they’re totally arts-centric, so it was (mostly) refreshing to be surrounded by folks with a completely different perspective. (Note to Andrew Taylor: thanks to everyone’s obsession with VC-funding and industry gossip, this [...]
A number of our members have reported receiving disturbing emails, phone calls, or letters from Infinity Administrators over the past few days. Infinity Administrators is the company that provides the HealthFlex 2000, HealthFlex 365, and Dental Discount Plus plans which Fractured Atlas offered for several years. If you have received one of these [...]
Over the holiday weekend I got an email from Dianne, the Program Associate for our fiscal sponsorship program. Since I’m an evil slave driver of a boss, it’s not entirely unusual for me to receive weekend emails from my staff. This one, however, warranted an unusual amount of attention. Dianne had noticed [...]
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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