Discusses how to identify the needs of performing arts organizations and identify individuals to serve on boards so as to meet those needs. The author uses the example of the Twyla Tharp Dance Foundation of which she was executive director.

CONTENTS
Preface.
Acknowledgments.

Section 1. List of survey participants. 
                Introduction and methodology. 
                About the respondents. 
                Services and programs of Bay Area arts organizations.
             

CONTENTS
Introduction.
Preparation.

CONTENTS
Preface.
Board of directors.
A brief history.
Goals.
The organization.
Programs.
Publications.
Performance schedules.
Survey of the 1979-80 season.
Company descriptions: member companies.
Company descriptions: correspondent companies.

A comprehensive bibliography was complied under the auspices of the National Endowment for the Arts for the purpose of helping board members and managers of cultural institutions to find sound information and ideas related to their needs.

Dance companies exist to dance. Few if any companies conduct all their performances, lecture demonstrations and other activities at a single home base. Thus it is necessary for companies to be booked: to find other place to work. This search for bookings, and the successful administration of a booking which has been located, constitutes the subject matter of this book. (Introduction). While designed primarily for dance companies, information on booking procedures and techniques is generally useful to any performing arts company.

Examining behavior modes for nonprofit organizations, the author aims to develop a theory of behavior for nonprofit organizations. In general, the behavior patterns for nonprofit organizations are more complex than suggested by single objective function behavior models, which have been usually applied to nonprofit organizations. The author is suggesting a theory based on the organizations having a variety of objectives with these organizations operating in an environment which allows considerable room for discretion and alternative pursuits.

Off Off Broadway, small dance companies, cooperative galleries - all are characterized by their small, family-like structures and highly committed members. The Emerging Arts looks at the milieu in which these groups exist ... what traditions they grow out of...how they were founded... and the development patterns they follow.

Research and analysis by Mitchell B. Smith; commentary by W. Grant Brownrigg. The broad objective of such a survey was to develop an overall picture of the amount and types of compensation paid to arts administrators in various field of the arts. The statistical information in this study was reported in a questionnaire mailed to more than 2,400 not-for profit [nonprofit] arts organization throughout the United States.

Survey of members of the Association of College, University and Community Arts Administrators. From the 714 institutional members of the association in June 1979, 333 usable responses to this survey were received, a response rate of 47%