This Business Committee for the Arts, Inc. report examines results from a survey about business support to the arts. The survey was conducted during June and July 2001

This Business Committee for the Arts, Inc. report is an executive summary of results from a survey about business support to the arts. The survey was conducted during June and July 2001.

This report documents the design, methods, and support of the Working Capital Fund and presents a set of preliminary lessons that the program designers and operators have learned from 1995 to 2001.

Since summer 1998, herds of fiberglass, polyurethane, and polymer animal statues have been appearing on the sidewalks of cities in North America and Europe. Sponsored by cities and local businesses, these summer exhibitions are often criticized by the art world as too commercial.

This report is an update on the second year of the Volunteer Impact Initiative. It outlines specific volunteer mobilization and community impact achieved in the Initiatives second year and describes common strategies used by UPS Foundation grantees to effectively mobilize volunteers.

This essay discusses which is part of Lessons Learned: A Planning Toolsite produced by the National Endowment for the Arts discusses the importance of planning to arts organizations. The author examines what is involved in the planning process and what it can foster in arts organizations including creativity, an entrepreneurial model to succeed, self-knowledge, and a prelude for relations with funders. In addition, he outlines various reasons arts organizations may shy away from the planning process.

Collaborations with the private sector are increasingly essential for nonprofits to survive and thrive. Similarly, as nonprofit managers look to these new resources, the author reports a surge of business leaders eager to forge alliances with nonprofits for their own benefit. Each sector isworking to create possibilities that further their respective missions.

This briefing paper gives an overview of Alexis de Tocquevilles study of the American phenomenon of associationsﾝ and offers a perspective on the philanthropic sector in the today that validates de Tocqueville's analysis.

This report examines government and foundations as funding sources, with guidelines for writing grant proposals, marketing the arts organization and getting corporate sponsorships. Interspersed throughout the publication are web sites, samples of funders

This volume details a variety of innovative programs of support for the arts and artists and emphasizes giving by small family foundations and family programs that make grants under $10,000. The purpose of this book is to share inspiring examples of creative giving in the arts with other grantmakers, especially families and family foundations as they develop programs of support to maximize the impact of their resources.