The first tip: for a nonprofit organization to work, everyone has to care about why they’re there; otherwise, there’s no need for them to stay. Over the next few years, your nonprofit arts organization will be tasked with trying to succeed in a local and national environment not terribly interested in your work. Certainly not your art. It is with that in mind that we … [Read more...] about Nonprofit Arts Success in a Changing Environment, Tip 1: Stop Terrorizing Your People
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“Duck and Cover” — Is That Your Motto for the Next 46 Months?
Or will nonprofit arts organizations choose to fight back for their communities? Whippersnappers do not know about “Duck and Cover.” Which is why it serves as an option for your company’s future. Not a good one, mind you, but I’m sure you’re considering it. “Duck and Cover” was a thing. In fact, the Defense Department made a whole movie about it in 1951. This … [Read more...] about “Duck and Cover” — Is That Your Motto for the Next 46 Months?
The Case for Support: Mixed Blood Theatre Produces Positive, Quantifiable Impact for the People of Minneapolis
There is a theater company sitting right in the heart of America that dedicates every activity, every program, and every human interaction to the notion of radical hospitality. The idea of “radical hospitality” is not new. The Torah: “The strangers who sojourn with you shall be to you as the natives among you, and you shall love them as yourself; for you were strangers … [Read more...] about The Case for Support: Mixed Blood Theatre Produces Positive, Quantifiable Impact for the People of Minneapolis
What Would a Post-NEA (Arts) America Look Like?
Nonprofit arts organizations can be nonprofit arts organizations. Big deal. If the NEA’s funding were eliminated, how would that change what they do? In 2017, during the first year of the last Trump presidency, George Will wrote this in the Washington Post: Are NEA enthusiasts serene about government stipulating, as it must, art’s public purposes that justify public … [Read more...] about What Would a Post-NEA (Arts) America Look Like?
Nonprofit Arts Organizations: If You Can’t Beat ’Em, Join ’Em? Really?
With an empowered anti-arts, anti-education, and anti-culture base running the country, this is the time to commit to your community, not fall into the trap of cancelling them. It’s all gone topsy-turvy. We live in New America now. Ironically, the group that wanted to “Make America Great Again” has moved the country in a completely different direction than ever. We … [Read more...] about Nonprofit Arts Organizations: If You Can’t Beat ’Em, Join ’Em? Really?