Describes and assesses data resources on arts organizations that inform policy makers, arts managers, and researchers working in the arts fields

For more than 15 years, Starting and Running a Nonprofit Organization has been the basic primer for many organizations. Now completely revised, this guide will help anyone who is forming a new nonprofit, thinking about converting a grassroots group to tax-exempt status, or reorganizing an existing agency. Its also an excellent reference for people currently managing a nonprofit organization. Containing handy checklists, worksheets, and lists of resources, a standard handbook describes, step-by-step, all of the phases of creating and operating a new nonprofit agency, including

Paul Firstenberg utilizes his extensive experience in the for-profit and nonprofit sectors to develop a systematic plan for organizational governance. The 21st Century Nonprofit draws on the latest management techniques to help nonprofits become more vital social and cultural forces. It encourages managers to adopt the strategies developed by the for-profit sector in recent years, expand their revenue base by diversifying grant sources and exploiting profit-generating initiatives; develop human resources by attracting and retaining talented people, and explore the nature of leadership

This issue of Monographs provides an introduction to the subject of arts stabilization - an emerging field of increasing interest to local arts agencies. Arts stabilization describes a host of creative responses that funders have developed to address the long-term health and sustainability of arts organizations.

This is not another book about theories of arts management. It's not even a how-to book. Rather it is a compilation of sample forms, checklists and procedures for executing the management tasks necessary to run a not-for-profit arts organizations.

This publication provides examples of a variety of funding mechanisms local arts agencies are tapping in large urban areas, medium cities and small towns.

This handbook prepares staff to cope successfully with todays accelerating rate of change. It describes how to turn organizational change to an advantage, rather than falling prey to the natural inclination of resistance. The authors state that this handbook will provide information on how to reduce resistance to change, improve morale and quality of work life, and protect productivity and profitability.

As the Boston Globe's music critic Richard Dyer described it: (Linda Blake) looks adversity in the eye and comes out smiling. In 1985, the young violinist joined the Boston Symphony Orchestra, straight out of school. Her audition for the BSO was the first she had ever played. I don't even remember what they asked me to play, but I do remember that it was on Patriots Day and I didn't get to see any of the Boston Marathon! she recalled. I was taking the audition because I thought it would be a good experience for me.

Broadway style musical theater is one of the rare forms of performing arts that remain commercially viable. Unlike related forms, such as opera, ballet and symphonic music, the Broadway musical continues to flourish in the commercial sector rather than the not-for-profit environment. In fact, the Broadway musical's profit-making potential often plays a significant role in the income strategies of not-for-profit venues, such as the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. However, the engagement of a profitable Broadway musical such as Miss Saigon or Phantom of the

This book examines how associations can implement membership retention as a critical strategic process - what we refer to as strategic retention. Because of this perspective, none of the chapters covers how-to-details, such as the components of a renewal mailing. Rather, each chapter looks at a particular principle or approach that you can take to ensure you're integrating membership retention into other strategic processes. For instance, the book highlights the rapidly changing business and communications environment and its effect on association members, how to determine what your members