A evaluation catalogue that can assist individuals and organizations in providing programming for veterans and military members in their communities. It consists a University of Oklahoma program evaluation of the pilot arts program for residents at the Norman Veterans Center, offered through a collaboration of the Oklahoma Arts Council and Oklahoma Department of Veterans Affairs.

Inspired by the popular 21 Balançoires (21 Swings) installation, The Swings: An Exercise in Musical Cooperation is a standalone musical installation available for international touring.Since 2011, the original 21 Swings installation has attracted millions of fans to the Quartier des spectacles area in Montréal, where every day each swing has swung an average of 8,500 times. This is a study and compartive analysis of the impact the project had on three citie

Artists and cultural institutions have an important role to play in neighborhood social and economic vitality. As community developers consider how best to reimagine space they can and should look to the arts to help create place. This work, otherwise known as “creative placemaking,” is beginning to take shape across the country. The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco is pleased to dedicate Volume 10, Issue 2 of the Community Development Investment Review to this emerging work.

The 2014 Patron Loyalty Study: Loyalty By the Numbers examines the financial transactions (including ticket sales, memberships and donations) of almost a million Greater Philadelphia households, using seven years of data from 17 major cultural attractions in the region. One of the key findings of the report is that, despite the sector’s focus on developing new audiences, the erosion of current audience loyalty represents one of the most significant financial risks for cultural groups. 

Every year, millions of people across America are invited to participate in an activity that has become a Fall tradition for generations of employees working at many of the nation’s largest employers: the Employee Charitable Giving Campaign. 

How are cultural institutions using digital technologies to further their missions? What can we learn from talking to innovators doing this work? The Wyncote Foundation commissioned this report to help answer these questions.

This report of the findings from the Fiscal 2001 Public Art Survey provides detailed information about the budgets and operations of the 132 responding public art programs. This report studies public art programs only. It does not include information regarding independent, artist-initiated public art projects or projects that are the result of community groups or arts organizations collaborating to produce a single artwork.

​A report on a survey of close to 14,000 parents and guardians nationwide finds a jump in reported participation in afterschool in the U.S. over the last decade. Some 18 percent of children in the surveyed households took part in an afterschool program in 2014 — equivalent nationally to about 10.2 million children. That compares with 15 percent in 2009 and 11 percent in 2004. At the same time, unmet demand for afterschool programming is large; extrapolating from the survey findings, the report says that 19.4 million more children would be enrolled in afterschool if a program were

This one pagers summarizes findings from the Afterschool Alliance's report, America After 3pm: Afterschool Prrograms in Demand. "More Parents Report Enrolling Children in Summer Learning With increased awareness of the problem of summer learning loss, new research from the forthcoming America After 3PM report demonstrates expanding support for summer learning programs among parents."

Based on case studies of 10 arts organizations that undertook audience-building projects as part of the Wallace Excellence Awards initiative, the report, The Road to Results: Practices for Building Arts Audiences, pinpoints nine practices that successful efforts had in common — from identifying a target group that made sense for the organization to determining what barriers needed to be