Despite the economic downturn, creative jobs in Los Angeles are holding steady.
Economic Impact
Capitalizing on Complexity: Insights from the Global CEO Study
Key findings:
- The world’s private and public sector leaders believe that a rapid escalation of “complexity” is the biggest challenge confronting them. They expect it to continue – indeed, to accelerate – in the coming years.
- They are equally clear that their enterprises today are not equipped to cope effectively with this complexity in the global environment.
- Finally, they identify “creativity” as the single most important leadership competency for enterprises seeking a path through this complexity.
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There’s No Place Like Home: Bringing Film & TV Back to California
In September 2011, The Headway Project undertook a study of the 2009 California Film & Television Tax Credit Program. Our purpose at The Headway Project is to explore initiatives and ideas that seem likely to create middle class jobs, and in this respect we were interested in determining whether this relatively new tax credit has been effective in reversing film and TV production flight out of the state and returning it to its natural and long-standing home in California.
Nurturing California’s Next Generation of Arts and Cultural Leaders
Commissioned by the Center for Cultural Innovation with generous support from The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and The James Irvine Foundation:
Over the past several years, the foundations have invested in research and programs that seek to understand, and address, the talent flight and leadership challenges confronting the arts sector in California. Leaders in the nonprofit arts world, many of them founders and builders of their organizations for decades, will be retiring in unprecedented numbers in the coming years. Organizations could become weaker and destabilized during this transition, a prospect that should be addressed with some urgency. Younger professionals should be able to take on these leadership roles and chart a new course in stressful and changing times. Yet an operational divide between the workplace needs and values of Next Geners and those currently in charge threatens this transition. Here’s a good look at this issue.
California’s Arts Ecology
California has 11,000 arts and culture nonprofits, a number that places the state ahead of most nations in the world. Californians are more likely to participate than other Americans, but arts involvement and nonprofit organizations are unevenly spread across California’s geographic and demographic communities.
New findings generated by Markusen Economic Research and commissioned by The James Irvine Foundation offer fresh illustrations of the California nonprofit arts sector and the people who take part in it.
Fusing Arts, Culture & Social Change: High Impact Strategies for Philanthropy
Every year, approximately 11 percent of foundation giving – about $2.3 billion in 2009 – is awarded to nonprofit arts and cultural institutions. The distribution of these funds is demonstrably out of balance with our evolving cultural landscape and with the changing demographics of our communities. Current arts grantmaking disregards large segments of cultural practice, and by doing so, it disregards large segments of our society.
