Creative Capital provides grants to individual artists using a venture capital model-the money comes with guidance and governance. Artists receive money as milestones are reached and also receive guidance on managing their lives and business to increase their sustainability. But as Ruby Lerner, CEO of Creative Capital, looks to the organization’s next decade, how can she ensure the sustainability of this high-touch, uniquely individual model?
SHORT FILM: Enlivening the Senses: Arts – Learning at the Core of Education
From the Washington Post: “This 14-minute film does a great job detailing the impact of arts education on the development of children’s cognitive, artistic, social and psychological development. The film, ‘Enlivening the Senses: Arts|Learning at the Core of Education,’ was created through a partnership between the nonprofit organization Arts/Learning and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.”
Classical Music an Effective Antidepressant (article)
A newly published study from Mexico reports repeated listening to certain classical works helps ease the debilitating symptoms of clinical depression. “Music offers a simple and elegant way to treat anhedonia, the loss of pleasures in daily activities,” the research team, led by Miguel-Angel Mayoral-Chavez of the University of Oaxaca, reports in the journal The Arts in Psychotherapy. (This summary is based on the article published by Tom Jacobs on the journalism website Miller-McCune. The article contains links to various sources, including a site to download the initial study findings from The Arts in Psychotherapy.)
Nonprofit Sector in Brief — Public Charities, Giving, and Volunteering 2009
This brief highlights trends in the number and finances of 501(c)(3) public charities as well as key findings on private charitable contributions and volunteering, two vital resources to the nonprofit sector. Figures on giving and volunteering include the most recent data available. Data reported on the nonprofit sector are from 2007–a snapshot of the sector just before the U.S. economic recession.
Recession Pressures on Nonprofit Jobs
Nearly 40 percent of nonprofit organizations lack adequate staff to deliver their programs and services, a new report from the Johns Hopkins University Listening Post Project finds. According to the report, Recession Pressures on Nonprofit Jobs (17 pages, PDF), almost a third of the 526 organizations surveyed by the project reported making workforce reductions over the preceding six months (October 2009 to March 2010), while only 23 percent reported employment gains over the same period and 46 percent reported no change in head count despite facing greater demand for their services. In addition to workforce reductions, the survey found that nonprofits have taken other actions that impact staff and their ability to deliver critical programs and services.
Giving in Numbers: 2013 Edition — Report that follows corporate giving
Developed by CECP in association with The Conference Board, Giving in Numbers: 2013 Edition is based on data from 240 companies, including 60 of the largest 100 companies in the Fortune 500. The sum of contributions across all respondents of the 2012 survey, from which the data is pulled, totaled more than $20 billion in cash and in-kind giving. This report not only presents a profile of corporate philanthropy in 2012, but also pinpoints how corporate giving is evolving and becoming more focused since before the recession of 2008 and 2009. This is the ninth annual report on trends in corporate giving. CECP is grateful to the Newman’s Own Foundation and PricewaterhouseCoopers for its support in making Giving in Numbers possible.
