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2013's Fifty Most Powerful and Influential People in the Nonprofit Arts (USA) 27 Aug 2013 | 08:07 pm
The sixth annual Barry’s Blog listing of the Most Powerful and Influential Leaders in the Nonprofit Arts.
Mary McCullough-Hudson to Retire from ArtsWave in 2014 23 Aug 2013 | 10:08 pm
From ArtsWave's My.Arts.Blog, posted August 22: Mary McCullough-Hudson, President and CEO of ArtsWave, announced today her intent to retire at the end of the organization's fiscal year in August 2014...
Either-Or is Harmful to Charities and Society 23 Aug 2013 | 03:11 am
By Janet Brown from her blog Better Together Peter Singer’s Sunday, August 11 New York Times opinion piece entitled “Good Charity, Bad Charity” was a shocker. One would expect something a bit more fa...
NEA Statement on the Death of NEA Jazz Master Marian McPartland 22 Aug 2013 | 09:53 pm
From the August 21 National Endowment for the Arts press release: It is with great sadness that the National Endowment for the Arts acknowledges the passing of 2000 NEA Jazz Master Marian McPartland....
The Arts: The Private Sector's Secret Weapon 21 Aug 2013 | 04:40 am
In a Huffpost Arts & Culture post titled "The Private Sector's Secret Weapon," Americans for the Arts' president and CEO Robert Lynch responds to The Conference Board's list of the top five global cha...
Agnes Gund on a Braver Defense of the Arts 20 Aug 2013 | 11:21 pm
Writing for Huffington Post, Agnes Gund responds to the U.S. House Appropriations Committee's recent vote to cut the budgets of the National Endowments for the Arts and the Humanities by 49% in 2014, ...
Alberto Ríos has been named the inaugural Poet Laureate for the State of Arizona 20 Aug 2013 | 11:06 pm
In partnership with the Office of the Governor, the Arizona Commission on the Arts is pleased to announce that celebrated poet and Arizona State University Regents’ Professor Alberto Ríos has been nam...
My Turn: For a humane tax reform 20 Aug 2013 | 08:47 am
John R. Killacky, writing for the Burlington Free Press: As our legislators debate implications of a tax overhaul, I hope they remember that nonprofits serve a triple bottom line, all subsidized by d...
CERF+ Biennial Report on the State of Emergency Preparedness 14 Aug 2013 | 07:11 pm
This report, whose theme is “working together to keep artists working,” takes a look at CERF+’s expanded program offerings and increased numbers of artists served during a period of great economic un...
How Video Games and Social Media Fuel Students’ Passion for Art 11 Aug 2013 | 12:13 am
From Katrina Schwartz, for the blog Mind/Shift: The average teenager consumes about 10 hours of media per day according to a Kaiser Family Foundation report, and that’s often through a gadget like sm...
