This report seeks to identify opportunities to increase cultural space, support innovation, strengthen neighborhoods and preserve the culture of Seattle.
How culture and the arts can promote intercultural dialogue in the context of the migratory and refugee crisis
Report with case studies, by the working group of EU member states’ experts on intercultural dialogue in the context of the migratory and refugee crisis under the open method of coordination.
ESSA: Mapping opportunities for the arts
This special report highlights the ways that states and districts can engage the arts in the ongoing work of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA). Designed to continue growing as ESSA implementation proceeds, this report currently contains chapters exploring the opportunities for arts education within the following topics: Accountability, Assessments, Stakeholder Engagement, State Plans, Tiers of Evidence, Title I and a Well-Rounded Education.
Creative Freelancers
The Creative Industries Federation surveyed around 700 creative freelancers and spoke to 50 businesses, alongside legal specialists, financial advisors and trade bodies, seeking recommendations to improve the working lives of the creative freelancer workforce. This report looks at what government can do to support the creative freelance economy.
Some of the recommendations in this report cover
policies where freelancers were not considered when
that policy was designed, such as higher education
policy or the need for freelance visas. Other concerns
common across all sub-sectors of the creative industries
included accessing legal advice, financial support and
workspace.
Race to Lead: Confronting the Nonprofit Racial Leadership Gap
The percentage of people of color in nonprofit executive director roles has remained under 20% for the past decade. To increase the number of people of color leading nonprofits, the sector needs a new narrative about the problem and new strategies to address it. Nonprofits have to transfer the responsibility for the racial leadership gap from those who are targeted by it (aspiring leaders of color), to those governing organizations.
Current public opinion toward federal funding for arts & culture in the United States
A significant majority of U.S. adults “strongly disagree” with President Trump’s proposal to eliminate federal funding for the NEA, NEH, IMLS, and CPB.
