The Strategy and Practice of Content Cycle for Multipurpose Culture and Arts Organizations -The 2021 Refrigerator Illusion Exhibition at the Asia Culture Center-

Abstract Although nonprofit organizations are expected to contribute to public interests, their tax exemption does not necessarily entail serving the broader public. What, then, makes nonprofit organizations orient their work externally, serving the broader public, instead of internally, pursuing private goals? This paper examines this question by studying the link between nonprofits’ board governance, with a specific focus on boards’ racial diversity, and their contribution to public interests. The analysis of the 2015 US Local Arts Agency Census reveals that boards’ racial diversity is closely related with nonprofit arts organizations’ participation in serving the broader public through civic engagement and community development activities. The findings offer insights on how nonprofit boards, which are neither publicly elected nor publicly accountable, can be trusted to attend to broader issues of the public interest.

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The Effects of Capital Campaigns on Local Nonprofit Ecologies

Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly ◽

10.1177/0899764018757026 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 47 (3) ◽

pp. 645-656 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Joanna Woronkowicz

Keyword(s):

Nonprofit Organizations ◽

Internal Revenue Service ◽

Arts Organizations ◽

Natural Distribution ◽

Capital Campaign ◽

Internal Revenue ◽

Capital Campaigns ◽

Short Period ◽

Distribution Of Resources ◽

Nonprofit Arts

When charities launch capital campaigns, they hope to attract large amounts of resources in a relatively short period of time; however, other charities in the area are likely to see such campaigns as disruptive to the natural distribution of resources to area nonprofits by disproportionately directing area donations to a single organization. This study seeks to understand the effects capital campaigns have on both the fundraising performance of other nonprofits and the makeup of a local nonprofit ecology. The analysis uses data from a randomly sampled set of nonprofit arts organizations that had capital campaigns for facilities projects between 1994 and 2007 and Internal Revenue Service Form 990 data on 501 (c) (3) nonprofit organizations in each county. The results illustrate that a capital campaign positively affects the fundraising performance of other charities in a local nonprofit ecology, but that campaigns decrease the size of a local nonprofit ecology.

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Computers in arts organizations: Tool or toll for modern times?

Journal of Arts Management and Law ◽

10.1080/07335113.1984.9943531 ◽

1984 ◽

Vol 14 (1) ◽

pp. 112-121 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

George Kwiatkowski ◽

Dallas Defee

Keyword(s):

Arts Organizations ◽

Modern Times

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Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Statements in the U. S. Creative Sector: Progress, or More Bullshit?

Cultural Management Science and Education ◽

10.30819/cmse.5-2.03 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 5 (2) ◽

pp. 33-46

Author(s):

Antonio C. Cuyler

Keyword(s):

Content Analysis ◽

Research Question ◽

Theoretical Framework ◽

Status Quo ◽

Arts Organizations ◽

The Public ◽

Cultural Organizations ◽

The Status ◽

Definition Of ◽

Equity And Inclusion

This article represents a snapshot and analysis of U. S. service arts organizations’ DEI statements and activities in 2018. At that time, many primarily White-serving U. S. cultural organizations responded defensively to accusations of elitism and a harmful rigged funding system that maintained the status quo by awarding most cultural funding to these organizations while undermining the health and vitality of cultural organizations by and for historically oppressed communities (Sidford, 2011). Furthermore, Helicon Collaborative (2017) found that even with a host of cultural equity, “diversity” projects (Tseng 2016), and public-facing DEI statements, little had changed within six years. Therefore, this study uses directed and summative content analysis to investigate the research question “what do cultural equity and diversity statements communicate about cultural organizations’ positions on DEI?” This study also uses Frankfurt’s (2005) essay On Bullshit and Laing’s (2016) two-prong definition of accountability as a theoretical framework to examine if and how cultural organizations hold themselves accountable for achieving DEI in the creative sector. Lastly, readers should keep in mind that the public murder of Geor-ge Floyd in 2020 has hastened all of the service arts organizations’ access, diversity, equity, and inclusion (ADEI) work examined in this study.

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A typology of social change agendas in Australian arts organizations and NGOs

Journal of Arts & Communities ◽

10.1386/jaac_00021_1 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 12 (1-2) ◽

pp. 23-40

Author(s):

Brydie-Leigh Bartleet ◽

Gillian Howell

Keyword(s):

Social Change ◽

Positive Change ◽

Future Research ◽

Arts Organizations ◽

Research Practice ◽

Governmental Organizations ◽

Non Governmental Organizations ◽

The World ◽

Creative Artists

An increasing number of creative artists, arts organizations and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are working on socially-engaged initiatives that aim to bring about positive change in communities. Examples of outstanding arts practices can be found throughout the world; however, there are major gaps in our understanding about how this work operates. Drawing on insights from 100 Australian arts organizations and NGOs working in this field, this article aims to address some of these gaps. It outlines a typology of change agendas in these organizations, in order to advance a deeper understanding of this field and inform future research, practice and policy.

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