Featuring Alternate ROOTS, Jane Addams Hull-House Museum, and The Theater Offensive, this rich and rigorous publication examines the contours, possibilities and limitations of adaptive change for three arts and social justice organizations in our Labs.
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Building Equity and Inclusion by Assessing Demographic Data: Two Case Studies
In fall 2014, D5, a five-year coalition to advance philanthropy’s diversity, equity, and inclusion, announced a partnership with GuideStar to help set standards for how data about diversity within the nonprofit sector is collected.
Diversity in the Arts
The DeVos Institute’s first research topic, Diversity in the Arts, investigated the challenges facing organizations of color operating in the United States today, with a specific focus on African American and Latino theater companies, dance companies, and museums.
Corporate Social Responsibility & the Arts
Corporate Social Responsibility & the Arts brings into relief the current landscape of corporate support for arts and culture–one in which more corporations are focusing strategically on issues that align with their business interests and have a positive social impact on their employees, their consumers, and/or the communities in which they do business.
How it’s Being Done: Arts and business training across the U.S.
This research seeks to answer the question “How is business training being delivered to
artists across the U.S.?”
A new way to think about intrinsic vs. Instrumental benefits of the arts
For well over a decade now, advocates have fiercely contested whether the arts should be valued more for their ability to further non-arts goals, like public health or economic development, or for the unique qualities that set them apart from other aspects of social life. Just when we thought this great “intrinsic” vs. “instrumental” debate had gone stale, recent research from Mark Stern and Susan Seifert has given the topic a breath of fresh air.
