The following article from the Chronicle of Philanthropy was shared with me by a good friend and colleague, Julie Hawkins, Executive Vice President of the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance. I found it particularly interesting because it tells of an arts entrepreneur who, after a struggle in the not-for-profit world, chooses to cross over into the commercial … [Read more...] about Organizational Design Meets an Entrepreneur
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An Organization of Organizations?
There's a need to envision a multi-faceted organizational topography of arts and culture not-for-profits in our communities. As I've written in the past about there being too many 501c3, not-for-profits, and I've offered up alternative organizational possibilities, now it's time to think about how a landscape of different organizational designs might ideally work. To … [Read more...] about An Organization of Organizations?
Entrepreneurship — Isolating the Transformational Moment
Newsweek magazine recently published an article that reported on a longitudinal study designed to measure creativity in the U.S (http://www.newsweek.com/2010/07/10/the-creativity-crisis.html). Using the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking as their rubric they reported a steady drop in creativity from 1990 forward. For 30 years prior the index showed an … [Read more...] about Entrepreneurship — Isolating the Transformational Moment
Arts Entrepreneurship — Idea Development Processes
My last blog entry described 4 types of idea development. This rubric is helpful to me (and perhaps to others) who are working with students on the idea formation process. However, it doesn't get to the essential pedagogical challenge, that of what projects and activities to construct that will ignite students' imaginations and constructive processes. In working … [Read more...] about Arts Entrepreneurship — Idea Development Processes
Arts Entrepreneurship — Four Stages of Idea Development
I'm still working hard here on an idea formation rubric for students in the arts to consider. As I said in an earlier entry, the whole concept of invention and creation of new enterprises have been anathemas within collegiate arts curricula. Finding a bridge between these two worlds is of critical importance. Here I present a four stage process that I believe, … [Read more...] about Arts Entrepreneurship — Four Stages of Idea Development