The purpose of this guide is to help you - board members, staff, volunteers - discover resources and techniques Mellon Bank has seen used effectively by a variety of nonprofits. We want to change your way of thinking...take you beyond traditional checkbook philanthropy to the concept of total community resources. To make our point, we've shifted from the traditional emphasis on volunteers, corporations and foundations to focus on total resources - money, people, goods, and services.

The Portland City Council established the Portland Public Art Program in the spring of 2000 in order to preserve, restore, enhance and expand the City's public art collection. The ordinance requires that the Portland Public Art Committee submit to Council an annual art plan which outlines recommendations for allocating the C.I.P. public art percentage, administration of the program, conservation of the collection, and initiation of new projects.

This book takes a big bite out of a big subject and, not surprisingly, finds it has more than it can chew. Accounting and budgeting are probably just too different in government and nonprofit organizations to cover both in the same text. Public (government) organizations and nonprofits differ dramatically in their sources of revenue, their governance structures, and their accounting practices. By squeezing everything into one book, the author ends up meeting no one's needs, but particularly not those of the nonprofit manager.

<p>This book offers some outlines, ideas, and starting points as tools for putting together and maintaining a local arts agency.</p>

This book is not about how to retrench or get lean and mean in the face of tightening financial resources. Nonprofits that faced major cutbacks in the 1980s will wince at the recollection of those terms and processes.

This book, written for those managers and artists and their companies, groups, collectives, cooperatives, and institutions, is about money. First, it is about what to do before money: how to consider and choose an organizational format that best suits the mission and purposes of the artists involved, and that allows money to be made and distributed in different ways. Thereafter, it is about obtaining money - raising it through traditional forms of grantsmanship in the private, public, and corporate sectors, making it through earned income activities including back interest and real estate...