A Statistical Report on the Campaign Revenues of the Nation’s United Arts Funds during Fiscal Year 2016. Throughout the summer of 2017, the Americans for the Arts Private Sector Initiatives department solicited responses to the FY2016 United Arts Fund Campaign Survey. Surveys were distributed to a total of 45 united arts funds by email. Throughout the summer, non-responders were contacted by phone and/or via email to solicit their participation, including the option to participate in an abbreviated version. A total of 37UAFsparticipated in the survey.

The arts thrive best with broad public support, but for that to happen people have to see the arts as a public good – as more than just individual expressions and performances to be consumed. The problem is that earlier narratives, which placed special value on art as a mark of civilization and cultural development have fallen away, and so people wonder why their tax dollars are being spent on it.

When advocates draw people’s attention to the way in which the effects of the arts ripple throughout a community – making places more vibrant, more attractive, and more...

This book is about people - how they feel, how they think and act, and what happens between them when they're engaged in the enterprise of philanthropy. The intent of this small volume is to report what we've come to understand about this phenomenon. On these pages can be found the most important principles of fund raising - no more, and no less. At least, that is our intention.

This book grew out of presentations and workshops at the 1978 seminar of the Association of College, University and Community Arts Administrators and the Center for Arts Administration of the University of Wisconsin at Madison. The papers provide a foundation for a systematic and comprehensive approach to arts marketing in the nonprofit sector. Published in cooperation with the Association of College, University and Community Arts Administrators, with the cooperation of the Center for Arts Administration of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

This book documents the experiences of the grant recipients of the Challenge Grant Program of the National Endowment for the Arts from 1977-1979. Surveys were sent to 182 recipients of Challenge Grant awards and 153 surveys were returned.

This book differs from other books about grants because it focuses specifically on basic techniques of planning, writing, and submitting grant proposals to public and private agencies. Rather than taking a generic approach to grant writing, this book presents many specific tips used by successful grant getters.