This issue of COPC Central looks at how the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of University Partnerships, Community Outreach Partnership Centers (COPC) are using arts programming for youth to rehabilitate local communities.

This Sacramento market study was undertaken through the leadership of the Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission, as a venture to further its on-going work in addressing organizational stabilization.

This guide is for community-based nonprofit organizations interested in learning more about becoming affordable housing developers, establishing public+private partnerships and helping to meet the housing needs of low- and moderate-income families.

Theatre Facts 2000 offers TCG's annual update on the field's attendance, performance and fiscal health, based on the information provided by theatres that participate in TCG's annual fiscal survey.

National Endowment for the Arts commissioned Demographic Data Consultants of Nashville to examine the issue of the aging of arts audience in the U.S. with data available from the 1997 Survey of Public Participation in the Arts. This study examines arts participation or attendance rates for a variety of age groupings or cohorts, to determine trends over the 1982 to 1992 decade. A specific focus of the report is baby boomers, those born between 1946 and 1965.

University of Chicago professor Hung Wuy defines experimental art in China, and explains it role and history since its beginnings in 1979.

This is a transcription of a session from the Grantmakers in the Arts 1999 conference, Strengthening the Arts Through Policy, Performance and Practice, held on November 14-17, 1999 in San Francisco, California.

"The Charlotte MSO today is led by a senior marketing executive with a full-time staff of 10 plus one part-time employee and a commissioned sales representative. The mission of the MSO is to improve the overall quality of marketing, increase revenues and build audiences for each of the four participating organizations — Opera Carolina, Charlotte Repertory Theatre, North Carolina Dance Theatre (NCDT) and the North Carolina Blumenthal Performing Arts Center." [Executive Summary p. 4]

This WESTAF-sponsored research paper first examines marketing trends and principles in the realms of entertainment and performance. The bulk of the study then concentrates on case studies of entertainment presenters in five categories: nonprofit arts organizations, mega-concert promoters, for-profit entertainment conglomerates, sports promoters and religious organizations.

This Monograph explores an alternative view of stabilization, one that comes from a community perspective and focuses on the delivery of cultural services to a community rather than on individual cultural institutions. In the process, some emerging trends surrounding cultural participation, regionalism, and a new form of philanthropy will be identified.