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.
Economic Impact
Orange County Workforce Indicators 2011/2012
Creativity Sector named as one of four drivers of Orange County employment:
Orange County’s increasing focus on STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) as a critical competitive advantage has evolved into an emphasis on STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, ARTS, Math). The Creativity sector is the market impact of businesses and individuals involved in producing cultural, artistic, and design goods and services. More specifically, it consists of creative professionals and enterprises that take powerful, original ideas and transform them into practical and often innovative goods, or inspire us with their artistry.
Artists and Arts Workers in the United States
There are 2.1 million artists in the United States workforce, and a large portion of them — designers — contribute to industries whose products Americans use every day, according to new research from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Otis Report on the Creative Economy of the Los Angeles Region
Despite the economic downturn, creative jobs in Los Angeles are holding steady.
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.
