This publication summarizes a three-year recent period of research findings to highlight opportunities and issues for Greater Philadelphia's Cultural Sector. Its research was conducted as part of a national effort to profile the non-profit arts and cultural sector and to develop a base of information which will inform cultural policy development locally and nationally.

This report demonstrates how small budget arts activities play a role in leveraging both local and non-local assets for neighborhood improvement.

Actor and filmmaker Robert Redford gave the 16th Annual Nancy Hanks Lecture on Arts and Public Policy on September 9, 2003 at the The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C.

A new, usable guide to help communities steer youth away from crime toward a safe, productive future.

A report on Marylands Heritage Areas Program which was prepared for Maryland's Department of Legislative Services 2004 legislative session.

In 1999, The Pew Charitable Trusts launched an initative to foster broader public appreciation of nonprofit arts and culture and its role in American society. This initiative, Optimizing America's Cultural Resources, was largely premised on the idea that the development of supportive cultural policies depended on providing more and better information on arts and culture to policymakers.

The author describes the struggle of American cities to reinvent themselves for the post-industrial economy and the pivotal role the arts play in that process.

The goal of this Toolkit is to briefly describe the social capital concept and its dimensions, and then outline and illustrate some effective ways to build social capital among individuals and groups.

This publication is for funders who want to cultivate new grantmaking methods to help foster community problem solving.

This volume explores how consumption and entertainment change cities. But it reverses the "normal" causal process. That is, many chapters analyze how consumption and entertainment drive urban development, not vice versa.