A Lack of Skilled Arts Managers Hobbles Arts Groups, Plus More: Friday’s Roundup
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
September 11, 2009 | Read Time: 1 minute
- The biggest problem facing the arts today isn’t a lack of devoted artists, it’s a lack of skilled arts managers who know how to raise money and attract audiences, Michael M. Kaiser, president of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, writes on Huffington Post
- How responsive have foundations been to the economic crisis? Mitch Nauffts, publisher of Philanthropy News Digest, a publication of the Foundation Center, asks readers to weigh in on that question on the Foundation Center’s PhilanTopic blog.
- The growing trend of companies letting consumers choose where corporate grants are donated is more about marketing corporate good deeds than raising additional money for charity, writes Sharon Schneider on the Philanthropic Family blog. Ms. Schneider is a philanthropic director at Foundation Source.
- New features for charities on YouTube will make it easier to use the video-sharing Web site to raise money, writes Michael Hoffman, a fund-raising consultant in Chicago, on his company’s blog.
- As newspapers decline, more journalists are going to work for nonprofit groups, raising questions about whether they are pursuing unbiased reporting or advocacy, says Jim Barnett, a blog writer for the Nieman Journalism Lab, a program at Harvard University.
- Is the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s program to help small farmers in Africa too reliant on technology and working too closely with a big agriculture company? Food First, a food-policy activist group in Oakland, Calif., criticizes the Gates effort in The Nation.
- Nancy Schwartz, a marketing and communications consultant who also authors the Getting Attention blog, is inviting readers to cast their votes for the best nonprofit slogans and tag lines and among 60 finalists in 13 categories culled from more than 1,700 entries. Voting ends at midnight on September 30, and the winners will be announced next month.
