The landscape for business is fraught with challenges from economic instability to talent shortages, a squeeze on profits, regulatory revisions, income inequality, new trade agreements, and political change—to name a few. Business leaders need to forge ahead with strategies and tactics to maximize their organizations’ growth, and this report provides a detailed analysis of those strategies CEOs from around the world are employing to do just that. Six key business issues were presented to respondents, who ranked not only their strategies to deal with each but the hot button

The maker movement is the platform for today’s artisans to create, craft, develop and prototype new and interesting ideas and products. This new, hyperlocal manufacturing environment holds potential not only for individual hobbyists but also for community-wide advances in local entrepreneurship and job creation.

This Infographic, The Maker Movement: A Timeline of Key Modern Events, was develope to show key events the are helping to grow the maker movement in America.

The Congressional Arts Handbook is compiled annually to support the work of participants at Arts Advocacy Day, organized by Americans for the Arts and cosponsored by more than 85 national organizations, representing thousands of arts, culture, business, civic, and education organizations and individuals nationwide. Within this handbook, you will find a plethora of resources including facts, figures, related legislation, research, talking points, and more to help inform you on the major policy issues we are working to positively impact.

This is the sixth and final publication of the National Arts Index, Americans for the Arts’ annual report on the health and vitality of arts and culture in the United States. The 2016 National Arts Index is a highly-distilled
measure of the health and vitality of arts in the U.S.

The 2016 National Arts Index by Americans for the Arts provides a picture of the impact of the Great Recession on the arts—before, during, and after. The impact on the arts was swift and measurable. The 4-year drop from 2007-2011 nearly doubled the 5-year gains made between 2002-2007 (-6.6 vs. +3.5 percentage points, respectively).

"While the causes for Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) are not well known, people who have it experience a heightened perception of sound, and most have developed brains which are ideally suited to understanding and mastering the art of music. [This infographic shows] 10 surprising facts about how music affects people with ASD" (B&B Music Lessons, ASD + Music Infograpic).

This one pager provides an overvie of key daat from the 2015 Local Arts Agency Census about the most effective arts advocacy arguments for different stakeholder groups, as ranked by LAA leaders. 

Hessenius uses variables such as organization life-span, annual budget and focused discipline to show us communication trends throughout arts organizations