Amid widening gaps in politics and demographics, Americans in urban, suburban and rural areas share many aspects of community life.
Nonprofit Media Coverage of the Arts in California: Challenges and Opportunities
The California Arts Council recently completed an evaluation of our support of nonprofit media organizations in California, specifically as it relates to arts and culture coverage and related projects.
The central activities in this evaluation project include a June 2016 in-person convening of high-level California public media leaders, and the development of a subsequent report assessing the challenges and opportunities of supporting arts and public media in our state.
This report is the first of its kind for California, and we hope this will be the start of a conversation about the many opportunities for supporting public media’s engagement with arts and culture — and that it will bring awareness to the important work that is taking place in the field right now.
As readers will see in the report, these findings have benefited our Council’s programming decisions, with a revamped arts and public media grant program coming in 2017.
The Impact of Diversity: Understanding How Nonprofit Board Diversity Affects Philanthropy, Leadership, and Board Engagement
Diversity on nonprofit boards in the United States has been widely studied. A great deal of research has focused on this area, exploring topics such as the level of diversity, the motivations for increased diversity, and the benefits diversity seems to deliver. Despite such research, little is known about how increasing the diversity on nonprofit boards affects board engagement and impact. This study addresses this gap by answering two questions: “Which organizational attributes correlate with board diversity?” and “How is board diversity related to organizational action?”
Community Foundation Giving to Native American Causes
This report examines giving by community foundations to Native American organizations and causes. In all, the report highlights that only 15/100ths of one percent of community foundation funding goes to Native American organizations and causes annually.
NIH/Kennedy Center Workshop on Music and the Brain: Finding Harmony
The National Institutes of Health and John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts convened a panel of experts to discuss the current state of research on music and the brain. The panel generated research recommendations to accelerate the study of music’s effects on the brain and the implications for human health.
The Evaluation Journey: A Toolkit for Cultural Operators
In general, this Evaluation Journey aims to reach out to people working within organizations with limited budgets and human resources for evaluation.
It also focuses mainly on approaches and tools that can be developed and implemented internally and/or together with specific communities via a
more participative approach.
