In this accessible infographic, we learn about trends and tools that can lead nonprofits to more effective Crowdfunding.

Bob Harlow, along with the RAND Corporation and The Wallace Foundation discover that in order for Non-Profits to be sustainable and to stay relevant to their publics, they must turn their focuses towards audience building. In this study, we find that in order to grow audiences, organizations must 1. Recognize when change is needed, 2. Identify the target audience that fits their organization, 3. Determine what kinds of barriers need removal, 4. Take out all guesswork and use audience research to clarify approaches, 5. Think through their audience to organizational relationship, 6. Provide

In this e-book, Making Space: Lessons on Artistic Intervention in Uncommon Places, you’ll find the examples from three organizations whose artistic interventions have worked with uncommon sites to create unique, engaging, and transformative experiences with their audiences.

This one pager shows how arts related events generate revenue. This data is pulled from Americans for the Arts & Economic Prosperity IV 2012 report.

The report Arts Organizations and Digital Techologies shares results of a survey to explore how arts organizations use technology and how it impacts their work.

Cultural organizations like theater companies, orchestras, and art museums are using the internet, social media, and mobile apps to draw in and engage audiences, provide deeper context around art, and disseminate their work beyond the stage and the gallery.

This is one of a series of Animating Democracy papers looking at different segments of the arts-for-change field.

Steve Stoute traces how the “tanning” phenomenon raised a generation of black, Hispanic, white, and Asian consumers who have the same “mental complexion” based on shared experiences and values, rather than the increasingly irrelevant demographic boxes that have been used to a fault by corporate America. Drawing from his company’s case studies, as well as from extensive interviews with leading figures in multiple fields, Stoute presents an insider’s view of how the transcendent power of popular culture is helping reinvigorate and revitalize the American

Theatre Facts is Theatre Communications Group's (TCG) annual report that examines the fiscal state of the professional non-for-profit American theatre.

"Using SPPA data from 1982–2008, this monograph explores the breadth of participation within and between three primary categories, or “modes,” of arts activities: arts attendance, personal arts creation and performance, and arts participation through electronic media.6 In addition, the monograph offers a unique context for understanding arts participation, suggesting that a more expansive framework for the cultural ecology is needed, and discusses implications of the SPPA data and other trends for practice, policy, and future research." [Executive Summary, p. 15]

Theatre Facts is Theatre Communications Group's (TCG) annual report that examines the fiscal state of the professional non-for-profit American theatre.