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Telefilm Canada is a Crown corporation with a mandate to develop and promote Canada's film, television and video industry. Through Telefilm Canada, the Government of Canada provides support, as a partner, to the private sector for the production of film and broadcast material, either in the form of investment funds or through a variety of resources at Telefilm's disposal. The Corporation gives precedence to high-quality productions that constitute original expressions of Canadian identity and culture, and that will appeal to wide audiences in Canada and abroad.

Survey of corporate contributions for 1984. What art's organizations can hope to obtain in corporate sponsorship as they plan their 1984 fiscal year budgets prepared by the Conference Board.

Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Education, Bank Street College of Education, New York, New York, May 1987. This thesis explores the role of art education as a vital aspect of a high-quality corporate collection. Additionally, it begins to establish a definition of education within the corporate environment. The initiation of art education programs in the work place allow participants to broaden their perceptions of art and their world views. The resulting creative atmosphere that occurs from an interactive education process, produces

Studies and experience show that individuals are willing to give to the arts. The key question: How do we reach them? Door-to-door solicitations tend to be inefficient, direct mail is costly and telemarketing often offends potential benefactors. With increasing success, United Arts Funds (UAFs), organizations and local arts agencies (LAAs) are turning to workplace giving campaigns to expand individual support for the arts.

Strategies for building an integrated vision of creativity and development in community-based arts and culture neighborhood development projects.

Sponsored by the Business Committee for the Arts. The creation of the Business Committee for the Arts in 1967 reflected the belief of several of the nation's leading businessmen that a slowly emerging trend toward the involvement of corporations in the arts could, through an energetic and imaginative program of persuasion, be transformed into a strong, permanent alliance of the worlds of business and the arts.

Speech to the Economic Club of Detroit, Cobo Hall, Detroit, Michigan, 22-Oct-1979. W. H. Krome George is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Aluminum Company of America, and Chairman, Business Committee for the Arts.

Speech delivered to the Italian Federation of Industrial Employees, in Rome, Italy, May 2, 1988.

Speech at Metropolitan Museum of Art on corporate support of the arts; due Nov-95.

Since summer 1998, herds of fiberglass, polyurethane, and polymer animal statues have been appearing on the sidewalks of cities in North America and Europe. Sponsored by cities and local businesses, these summer exhibitions are often criticized by the art world as too commercial.

Review by Jillian Poole of the book Effective Corporate Fundraising [New York, NY: American Council for the Arts, 1981].

With the arts community facing many challenged, Americans for the Arts engaged Wolf, Keens & Co. to develop a more current and complete picture of what is happening in the LAA field so that others may learn new strategies for growing and survival.

Review by Cynthia Gehrig of the book Corporate Art [New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1990, 220 p.].

Research report for corporate contributions for the year 1985, prepared by the Conference Board, Division of Public Affairs Research and cosponsored with the Council for Financial Aid to Education.

Research report for corporate contributions for the year 1982, prepared by the Conference Board, Division of Public Affairs Research and cosponsored with the Council for Financial Aid to Education.

Research report for corporate contributions for the year 1981, prepared by the Conference Board, Division of Public Affairs Research and cosponsored with the Council for Financial Aid to Education.

Research report for corporate contributions for the year 1980, prepared by the Conference Board, Division of Public Affairs Research and cosponsored with the Council for Financial Aid to Education.

Research report for corporate contributions for the year 1977, prepared by the Conference Board, Division of Public Affairs Research and cosponsored with the Council for Financial Aid to Education.

Research report for corporate contributions for the year 1975, prepared by the Conference Board, Division of Public Affairs Research and cosponsored with the Council for Financial Aid to Education

Research report for corporate contributions for the year 1974, prepared by the Conference Board, Division of Public Affairs Research and cosponsored with the Council for Financial Aid to Education.

Report of a series of meeting held at the Twentieth Century Fund, New York City, October 1965-February 1966. Introduction by August Heckscher focused on Foundation support for the arts, its impact and scope.

Report illustrates important evidence that supports the effectiveness of UAFs as a component of local arts funding

Remarks presented at the Plenary session of the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities, Washington, D.C., October 18, 1984. ....When I was invited to make a few remarks today on how the corporation may be a catalyst in the arts and humanities, I naturally thought first about programs at Mobil. What have we done that has seemed effective as a catalyst?

Remarks presented at the Orange County Business Committee for the Arts Inc. Annual Awards Dinner, Costa Mesa, California, Nov. 18, 1984.

Remarks presented at the Annual Meeting and Awards Dinner of the Business Committee for the Arts, Inc., Atlanta, Ga., May 15, 1984. .....We have between art and commerce a reciprocal relationship which we cannot quantify, but which we sense intuitively. And the relationship is right there in the old truth we overlooked in reasoning out why we are involved in the arts: because freedom is indivisible. Art is the innocent carrier of the germ of freedom. It helps to maintain and enrich freedom. And freedom in turn helps art to thrive and prosper.

Remarks presented at Plenary Meeting 13 of the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities, Washington, D.C., October 16, 1986. ....More than 1,000 companies have started their own art collections - including a third of all the large corporations. And hundreds more make regular contributions to museums, libraries, symphony orchestras, repertory theatres, dance companies and other cultural institutions. Much of this growth has come about in the past 10 or 15 years.

Remarks presented at Business in the Arts awards luncheon at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion Music Center in Los Angeles, CA. .....Nobody argues about whether art is a luxury or a necessity these days, although they once did. We recognize in a general way that it is a necessity, but I wonder if we realize just how much. We agree that art has to do with the quality of life we lead - not just as individuals but as a society. Still, it is arguable whether a higher quality of life is a necessity for society as, say, capital, or the law. But I would place art in the category of law and capital and

Remarks by David Rockefeller, Sr., chairman, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, under auspices of the Sid W. Richardson Foundation, Ft Worth, Texas, February 6, 1985.

RAND examines recent trends in the performing arts and discusses how the arts are likely to evolve in the future.

Published by Yale University, Institution for Social and Policy Studies, Program on Non-Profit Organizations. This chapter is a modest effort to address this imbalance by discussing the evolution of foundations' support for the arts; reporting data, tabulated from a study that until now has been unexploited by students of the arts, on all appropriations made by 47 of the 54 largest independent foundations at six points between 1955 and 1979; and analyzing, in as much detail as available data permit, the allocation of arts and culture grants to different kinds of purposes and organizations