New England Foundation for the Arts presents its annual report for fiscal year 2004 as an interactive, online publication through their website.

This monograph explores the entire funding network and details how the financial system in the fosters artistic creativity and preserves artistic traditions.

According to a study done for the Boston Globe by the Foundation Center in New York City, the largest foundations give the greatest share of their grants to elite colleges and universities and the wealthiest of nonprofit institutions. This preferential treatment leaves tens of thousands of other nonprofits, many of which serve the poor and disadvantaged, competing to attract those remaining grant dollars.

This document presents a report from a workshop session held on December 6, 2003 at the 2003 National Assembly of State Arts Agencies (NASAA) Annual Meeting held in Charleston, South Carolina.

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

This study contrasts grantmaking by leading American foundations in the years 2001 (the most recent year for which comprehensive data were available) and 1990, the first full year after the Cold War.

The International Federation of Arts Councils and Culture Agencies' (IFACCA) D'Art program has a network of more than 400 arts councils and culture agencies that share knowledge to improve management and share ideas on the topic of arts policy. Questions are posed by members to the network through the IFACCA website and other members provide responses.

The Minnesota Council on Foundations presented its first report on the current state of the arts, culture, and humanities in Minnesota. Results of the report are from personal interviews with the states largest grantmakers and nonprofits. The report is based on personal thought and expression rather than hard data.

Within the last decade, there has been a surge of scholarship, media commentary and experimentation on what is rather loosely referred to as the “new economy.” In the opening essay of this issue of the Journal of Arts Management, Law, and Society, Kieran Healy describes the major attributes of the “new economy” as the term is being used by philosophers, pundits, and practitioners. He suggests that three defining assumptions drive the “new economy.”

Americans for the Arts receives more than 3,500 annual requests for information about local arts agencies (LAAs). To provide the most accurate answers to these questions, we conduct an extensive triennial survey to measure the status and condition of the LAA field. Here are the in-depth findings from our Fiscal Year 2000 Survey of Local Arts Agencies.