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Examining the effects of fifty years of corporate growth on American culture, [the author] argues that corporate control over such arenas of culture as museums, theaters, performing arts centers, and public broadcasting stations has resulted in a board manipulation of consciousness as well as an insidious form of censorship.

Examines the organizational features of the media arts, placing them in the context of the broader arts environment and identifying the major challenges they face.

Every business, no matter how small its size, can support the arts of its community in some manner. Because many companies are as yet uncertain how to begin in this field, this booklet has been produced to indicate some of the ways.

Essays address a wide range of issues in private arts patronage including an overview of sources, foundation support, corporate support, government leverage for support, and the baby-boom generation. Chapters are analyzed.

Each year businesses throughout the receive thousands of requests for support from educational institutions, health and social service agencies and arts organizations. Some businesses log more than 6,000 requests annually. The number of requests for support businesses receive from arts organizations far exceeds the amount earmarked annually for the arts. During 1982 business gave $506 million to the arts according to a national survey conducted by the Business Committee for the Arts, Inc. In 1985 that figure increased to more than $600 million. While the dollar amount increases each year, the

During winter 1997, Americans for the Arts sent surveys to 70 UAFs to collect detailed data about their 1996 fundraising campaigns, revenues and expenditures and programming. This report is based on responses from 59 of the UAFs- an 84 percent rate of compliance.

Dimensions of the Independent Sector is the first edition of a statistical profile of the independent sector of American society. Its purpose is to increase public understanding about the size, scope, dimensions, and functions of this diverse sector, which includes the vast array of voluntary and philanthropic institutions that provide a variety of services to all Americans. This profile has been compiled from a variety of public and private sources.

Detailed Art in Public Places Work Plan covering steps to implement a new program for municipal government.

Designed to help guide business leaders and others interested in developing and supporting quality education in America's schools. The report provides essential advice on strategic planning for corporate support of pre-college education; by describing over 125 promising programs, the report also serves as a source of ideas and funding opportunities.

Designed as a compendium of imaginative concepts, tested ideas and case histories of programs and promotions that make money. Arts groups on the lookout for fresh, imaginative ways to raise money and win audiences now have a new source of inspiration. Cash In! is a one-of-a-kind compendium, brimming with hundreds of bright ideas, practical concepts and case histories of programs and promotions that are tested and true.

Describes and assesses data resources on arts organizations that inform policy makers, arts managers, and researchers working in the arts fields

Critics say that we cannot afford to fund the arts at the federal level. The argument here is that we cannot afford not to when the arts clearly enhance community livability which, in turn, attracts industry, provides jobs, increases the tax base, and enriches us all. (from abstract)

Creativity is one of business's most valuable assets. Business leaders widely acknowledge that creativity is critical to profitability and long-term growth.Today's successful business leaders foster creativity in the workplace by providing environments in which employees are encouraged to explore new ideas, challenge existing systems, be innovative, deal with change and take calculated risks. This helps their companies compete successfully in a constantly changing marketplace.

Covers grants to nonprofit organizations in the U.S. and abroad for programs including: the visual and performing arts, arts education, music, art conservation, film and video, radio and television, literature and writing, architecture, historic preservation and museums.

Corporations that give money to nonprofit institutions are not just doing a good deed, they're often making a shrewd business decision, according to a poll conducted for the Boston Foundation and released yesterday.

Corporate-derived financial or other aids to the whole range of cultural affairs have become notable in diversity, scope, and dollar-flow totals, even if still far short of maximum ability to give, and of need.

Corporate giving now exceeds $1 1/2 billion annually. At a time when foundation giving has apparently stopped growing, corporate philanthropy has great potential to take up the slack. Yet only one in five corporations reports a tax-deductible gift and corporate giving averages only one fifth of the deductible contributions the law allows. This book describes how corporate giving can be not only effective - but exciting and relevant; that these efforts are of benefit to the giver as well as to the receiver; and that philanthropy can be an important part of the corporation's presence in society.

Corporate Foundation Profiles was developed in 1979 during a period of extremely rapid growth in corporate philanthropy. While the rate of growth slowed in the early 1980s as a result of the recession, interest in corporate giving has continued to increase.

Competition between the for-profit and nonprofit sectors is not new, but it does appear to be escalating. The issue is not whether competition exists, but rather, whether either sector - nonprofit or for-profit - has an unfair competitive advantage.

Communities with enormous buying power are going unserved. Stores with highquality merchandise and good service are scarce in their neighborhoods. Are these markets in scattered, inaccessible locations? In emerging countries plagued by political and economic risk? These overlooked markets are both real and close at hand. To find them, retailers need only look in their back yards ﾝin Americas inner cities.

Commissioned by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. The Rockefeller Brothers Fund commissioned Skelly Yankelovich to conduct a national survey on the charitable behavior of Americans. In February 1985, telephone interviews were conducted with a nationally representative sample of 1,151 Americans 18 years of age or older: Americans were asked a series of questions about their giving behavior; their motivations for giving, and their attitudes toward charitable giving and volunteering. The purpose of this report was to provide much-needed information about this neglected area of research on patterns

Commissioned by the Business Committee for the Arts. The Business Committee for the Arts, Inc, (BCA) commissioned Research & Forecasts, Inc. to conduct a nation-wide survey of American business. The study was undertaken in order to provide the BCA members, the business community and the general public with an in-depth understanding about business attitudes and support activities on behalf of the arts. In particular, BCA was interested in placing information about monetary donations to the arts within a larger context of business philosophy and business philanthropy, thereby contributing to the

Collection of eleven speeches or brochures highlighting corporate support for the arts.

Collaborations with the private sector are increasingly essential for nonprofits to survive and thrive. Similarly, as nonprofit managers look to these new resources, the author reports a surge of business leaders eager to forge alliances with nonprofits for their own benefit. Each sector isworking to create possibilities that further their respective missions.

Chicago's Millennium Park is a case study in how to create demand for downtown services and real estate.

Chapters are analyzed. As part of its ongoing research program, the Research & Evaluation Section of the Canada Council has initiated a series of arts research seminars to investigate, in a public forum, issues of concern to the arts in Canada. The fourth seminar was held on September 6, 1985 in the Board Room of the Canada Council. Its topic was The Arts: Corporations and Foundations. The seminar featured Dr. J. Mark Davidson Schuster, Assistant Head, Urban Studies, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Case study of the Americana Project, a creative music education program in Sisters Oregon, mixing Americana music, story telling, and songwriting. A study of social capital, inter-generational connection, asset-based community development, and rural community-building.

Brief overview of rationales for corporations to have art collections, and how to begin and utilize such a collection.

Based on thirty interviews with leaders in both the nonprofit and for-profit arts sectors, this essay concludes that although most cross-sector activity exists, significant new initiatives are possible in areas including philanthropy, joint ventures to create and disseminate new products, community redevelopment, technology, cultural preservation, and career development. The authors also warn of missteps and the importance of binding but not blurring the goals of the for-profit and non-for-profit arts organizations.

Attacks against philanthropic foundations by congressional leaders and others have in recent years grown increasingly hostile. In response to this deepening antagonism, John D. Rockefeller III invited Peter G. Peterson, Chairman of Bell and Howell, in February 1969 to form a commission to study American philanthropy and foundations. Fifteen distinguished private citizens representing diverse viewpoints were selected, and funds were raised from various nonfoundation sources in order to safeguard the objectivity of the commission.