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This guide is drawn from lessons learned during two musical instrument drives sponsored by New York’s classical music radio station, WQXR. Students in under-resourced music programs across the New York City area benefited from the roughly 6,000 musical instruments donated through the drive.

The Joan Mitchell Foundation is committed to education, providing direct arts education programming to grades K-12 and young adults, the Foundation will spend 2016-2018 focusing on research and piloting innovative educational opportunities for the artist community. The NYC Art Program Directory provides information on various arts-based organizations and institutions in New York City that offer programming for young people. These programs are diverse and offer opportunities in visual and performing arts for all ages, and also focus on portfolio and career development. The Foundation does

This report presents the current findings of a study of culture and social wellbeing in New York City conducted by the University of Pennsylvania Social Impact of the Arts Project (SIAP) in collaboration with Reinvestment Fund. The project began in the fall of 2014 when SIAP accepted an invitation from Tom Finkelpearl, Commissioner of Cultural Affairs for the City, to conduct a study of the social value of the arts. The study builds on SIAP’s over twenty years of research and writing on the non-­‐ economic impact of the arts on urban communities. During that time, SIAP has

The report released by the New York City Comptroller, “Culture Shock: The Importance of National Arts Funding to New York City’s Cultural Landscape,” highlights how the NEA supports arts and educational programs across the five boroughs of New York City and profiles four neighborhood-based arts groups that would be impacted.

This book is about the promise and power of the idea - the people and their programs. It is based largely on the individual and collective experience of six diverse urban school districts known as the League of Cities for the Arts in Education whose members are located in Hartford, Little Rock, Minneapolis, New York City, Seattle and Winston-Salem.

This article discusses the role artists play in the of neglected, low-income urban neighborhoods. New York area communities are featured as examples.

This article describes the development process of the Urban Horizons Economic Development Center in Bronx, New York.

There is growing concern that the federal No Child Left Behind Acts accountability provisions in mathematics, reading, and science are diverting significant time and resources from other academic subjects. To address this concern, the Council for Basic Education executed a study to collect data about American K-12 students access to a curriculum in the liberal arts.

The study consists of two parts. The first investigates the City Center audience in New York City. The second investigates tour audiences in San Antonio and Houston, Texas and New Orleans, Louisiana, and compares them to the New York audience. Seven weeks before the opening of the Joffrey spring 1976 season at the City Center Theater, the first of the Dance in America programs, which featured the Joffrey company, was broadcast on the PBS television network with support from the Exxon Corporation and the National Endowment for the Arts.

This study examined high-performing after-school projects funded by The After-School Corporation, to identify projects likely to have improved students' academic achievement. Evaluators found these shared characteristics: 1. A broad array of enrichment opportunities; 2. Opportunities for skill building and mastery; 3. Intentional relationship-building; 4. A strong, experienced manager supported by trained and supervised staff; and 5. The administrative, fiscal, and professional-development support of the sponsoring organization.

This report, prepared by the Illinois Arts Alliance, investigates the design, implementation, and funding of arts education policy in ten states.

This report reviews the funding procedures of the New York State Council on the Arts.

This report is an outline of art programs supported by New York State to serve as a guide for other states.

This report examines five areas of the activities of the New York Council on the Arts. These include: the interrelationships between Staff, Panel, Council Sub-Committees and full Council; council budgeting; new requirements mandated by the 1974 legislation; how the Council conducts its business; and types of arts organizations being supported and not being supported.

This report deals with the reorganization of the function of the Council on the arts and its staff in light of increased funding for the arts in New York State.

This report concerns the funding of cultural activities in New York City.

This paper provides a close reading of "Flow City," an ecological public art installation by Mierle Laderman Ukeles in the Fresh Kills landsfill site, New York City.

This issue of COPC Central looks at how the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of University Partnerships, Community Outreach Partnership Centers (COPC) are using arts programming for youth to rehabilitate local communities.

This is the second report to the American people on the services provided by New York City's non-profit institutions of art and culture. This report is based on information from 95 arts and cultural institutions in New York City. In the period from July 1, 1976 to June 30, 1977, these institutions provided services to people or organizations in 1,180 cities outside New York City - 860 in the and 320 in 87 foreign countries.

This is a report on the survey of out-of-town visitors to the Tutankamen Exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Interviewing took place at the exit to the exhibit during four one-week periods: January 2, February 6, March 6, and April 3. The purpose of the research was twofold: To study the extent to which the Museum serves as a stimulus for visits to New York City and generates important spending dollars for all aspects of the economy of the City. To learn about the audience profile of out-of-town visitors to the Museum during this special exhibit, and the extent to which it attracted

This groundbreaking report shows that New York's vast creative sector, from arts organizations to ad agencies, is one of the city's most important, and least understood, economic assets.

This groundbreaking report by the Center details how arts & culture is fueling economic growth in New York City neighborhoods. (Publishers description)

This manual is designed as a hands-on tool for any lawyer who is forming a nonprofit, tax-exempt entity in New York. It is based on materials originally published in connection with a training conference on legal formation of nonprofit corporations which was sponsored jointly by the Council of New York Law Associates, Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts, and Community Law Offices in 1978. The Council is grateful to those organizations for their role in the manual's creation and their support of our efforts to update it periodically since then.

This report suggests the Department of Education to broaden the accountability framework, build school capacity to have at least one arts teacher, expand outreach to potential cultural partners, and ensure adequate funding to support quality arts education in all city schools. Despite core arts instruction mandates, arts education in New York City’s public schools has become inequitable and underfunded. Arts instruction has been weakened by disinvestments and disincentives due to federal and state accountability systems that fail to recognize the value of the arts. This report shows a

Despite core arts instruction mandates, arts education in New York City’s public schools has become inequitable and underfunded. Arts instruction has been weakened by disinvestments and disincentives due to federal and state accountability systems that fail to recognize the value of the arts. This report shows a 47% decline in spending to hire arts and cultural organizations for educational services, and even steeper declines in spending on arts supplies and equipment. Many schools use supplemental arts funding for non-arts related areas. Many city schools are in violation of the

Monroe County/Rochester, New York [population: 700,000] is one of the 33 communities, ranging in population from 8,500 to 2.5 million, included in this three year study. The study examined data from 789 nonprofit organizations in order to compile a national average. The study was designed to document nonprofit arts expenditures in a cross section of American communities and demonstrate the economic impact gained from investing in the arts.

It was partly to identify this stratum of the population that we embarked on our survey. What kinds of people in Brooklyn attend cultural performances? What are their preferences and tastes in performances and art forms? Among these people, how many know about the Brooklyn Academy of Music? How many have actually seen productions at BAM? How is BAM doing vis a vis Lincoln Center as a cultural attraction for Brooklynites?