Arts Intranet

This monograph explores the entire funding network and details how the financial system in the fosters artistic creativity and preserves artistic traditions.

This is the sixth essay in the section on New Directions in Corporate Philanthropy. Corporate voluntarism serves the individual, the community, and the corporation. Hirschfield explores the use of retired employees as volunteers, paid-leave programs, and participation of employees in contribution decisionmaking.

This is the first in a planned series by Grantmakers in the Arts of Field Resource Books for professional arts grantmakers. The book profiles nine foundations that provide general operating support to arts organizations.

This is the eighth essay in the section on New Directions in Corporate Philanthropy. Based on interviews with corporate and community leaders in three communities - Racine, Wisconsin; Winston-Salem, North Carolina; and Lorain County, Ohio - Struckhoff explores the strengths and weaknesses of corporate giving in smaller communities.

This is the eighth essay in the section on Major Policy Considerations in Corporate Philanthropy. Corporations should focus their philanthropic programs on the intersection of enlightened corporate self-interest and the needs of society, suggests Ruckelshaus. He proposes that business define its role, establish and participate in new partnerships, and create forums for exploring future options.

This is a report summarizing the deliberations of participants at the American Assembly meeting on November 13, 1998. It provides a wide range of findings about current and potential connections between the not-for-profit and for-profits arts.

This in-depth news article discusses corporate sponsorship of the arts. Corporate partnerships are designed to meet the interests of both the sponsoring organization and nonprofit institution. Arts organizations welcome the support, especially since government subsidies have declined, and companies use these sponsorships as marketing vehicles. However, some express concern that private-sector support of the arts could taint arts originality and intent. Others state that corporate sponsorship is unavailable to many arts organizations and may, in some cases, be inappropriate.

This essay was prepared for Creative America: A Report to the President by the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities. That report describes the system of support for cultural life in the today.

This essay discusses which is part of Lessons Learned: A Planning Toolsite produced by the National Endowment for the Arts discusses the importance of planning to arts organizations. The author examines what is involved in the planning process and what it can foster in arts organizations including creativity, an entrepreneurial model to succeed, self-knowledge, and a prelude for relations with funders. In addition, he outlines various reasons arts organizations may shy away from the planning process.

This essay begins the section on The Future of Corporate Philanthropy in America. In the first study of its kind, Yankelovich, Skelly and White Inc., interviewed 219 chief executive officers to determine their attitudes toward corporate philanthropy. White and Bartolomeo report that corporate giving remains relatively underdeveloped in most companies, although the study suggests a promising future.

This volume represents a valuable source of information for non-profit organizations eager to enhance their services with the latest technologies. The National Guide provides essential facts on over 400 foundations and corporate giving programs, each with a history of awarding grant dollars to projects involving information technology. Imagine the time you will save by having, in a single convenient source, a list of grantmakers already interested in this field.

This thesis explores the role of art education as a vital aspect of a high-quality corporation 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 an environment where people's old ideas are challenged and problems can be approached in fresh ways. Also, by extending education programs beyond an employee

This survey, conducted by Roper Starch Worldwide, Inc., examines and reports the levels of business support to the arts within the context of total philanthropic activity. It also captures information about trends in business support to the arts, and projects, within reasonable limits of error, what all businesses with annual revenues of $1 million and more are contributing to the arts. The report provides information about methods of art support, measuring the impact of support to the arts, co-sponsorship, collaborations, and reactions to how business and the arts can build beneficial

This survey, conducted by Roper Starch Worldwide, Inc., examines and reports the levels of business support to the arts within the context of total philanthropic activity. It also captures information about trends in business support to the arts, and projects, within reasonable limits of error, what all businesses with annual revenues of $1 million and more are contributing to the arts. The report provides information about methods of art support, measuring the impact of support to the arts, co-sponsorship, collaborations, and reactions to how business and the arts can build beneficial

This study was initiated in the fall of 1984 at the request of the Washington Host Committee, a group of Washington-based foundations and corporations formed in connection with the 1985 annual meeting of the Council on Foundations, scheduled to be held in Washington, D.C. in 1985.

This study offers a new framework for understanding how the arts create private and public value, highlights the importance of the arts intrinsic benefits, and identifies how both instrumental and intrinsic benefits are created.

This study investigated the influences of foundation support of performing arts organizations on the creative process. Such influences derive from the scarcity of foundations' financial resources relative to community needs, and result in choices, made by foundation managers, that impact the opportunity for full creative expression in the nation's performing arts institutions. This study reported the impact of such choices in recent years and the expected impact of those choices in the immediate future.

This working paper of the Ford Foundation is the first full discussion of the Foundation's support for the arts in the since the Foundation's reorganization in 1981. The paper paper outlines measures through which the Foundation aims to stimulate creativity, to enhance the quality of art, and to increase access to the arts. The paper examines support for the arts, access to the arts, and minorities and the arts.

This essay is the first in the section on Major Policy Considerations in Corporate Philanthropy. Kotz provides an overview of the issues explored by eight experts in the field of corporate philanthropy, including five corporate executives and three professors representing the areas of law, economics, and business. (p. 6)

The second essay in the section on Major Policy Considerations in Corporate Philanthropy. The question facing corporations is the difficult decade of the 1980s, says Atwater, is how to give for the benefit of both society and the company. He calls for the setting of clear guidelines, the increased use of evaluation as a tool, a deepening of professional commitment, and a willingness to change. (p. 6)

Meeting in January 1988, the Council on Foundations brought together a group of people who have been advocates for corporate giving and public involvement. This pamphlet is an account of their views on the current state of corporate social responsibility and on the requirements for a revival of corporate grantmaking. The participants were Thornton Bradshaw, Fletcher Byron, John Filer, Andrew Sigler, William Woodside, and Thomas Wyman.

In 1982, the Council on Foundations undertook the first major research effort to illuminate and document the role of the Chief Executive Officer in corporate philanthropy. In brief, that 1982 work portrayed the CEO as, by far, the dominant player in the corporate giving decision making process and revealed greater commitment to corporate philanthropy than had been previously supposed.

The President's Committee on the Arts and The Humanities was established by President Ronald Reagan in 1982, primarily to analyze and make recommendations on ways to promote private sector support for the arts and the humanities, especially at the state and local levels. This report reviews the activities and accomplishments of the Committee from its beginning to 1988.

A survey of corporate support for the arts and other cultural activities in the Chicago Metropolitan Region was undertaken by the Chicago Council on Fine Arts in the second half of 1977 as part of its efforts to further the arts in Chicago. The objectives of the study were:

The 1997/1998 Grant Guide series provides you with up-to-date information on the grants recently awarded in your field. With descriptions of hundreds, often thousands, of foundation grants (of $10,000 or more) recently awarded in your subject area, these Grant Guides will help you to: locate funders for your specific project; discover the grantmakers that favor your geographical area; and target foundations by grants awarded to other nonprofits. Grants to nonprofit organizations in the U.S. and abroad for programs include: community improvement, economic development, international

The Business Committee for the Arts compiled this report outlining 2507 examples of how the companies they partner with supported the arts in 1976 and 1977.

This is a reprint of the original 1952 classic with a new introduction by Michael Useem. Included is a history of corporate foundations.