Possible Solutions For Sustainable Future: Restructuring Through Mergers and Other Alliances in the Nonprofit Arts and Culture Sector

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maggi Lawler Kirk
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Future ◽  
Arts And Culture ◽  
Nonprofit Arts

scholarly journals The Roots of Great Innovation

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
B Kathleen Gallagher
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Negative Binomial ◽  
Open Systems ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Negative Binomial Regression ◽  
Public Intervention ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Arts And Culture ◽  
Entrepreneurial Climate ◽  
Nonprofit Arts

What is the relationship between a city’s entrepreneurial climate and the sustainability of arts and culture nonprofits?  Business, the arts, and innovation do not exist in isolation.  New York Times writer David Brooks (2011) opined, “The roots of great innovation are never just in the technology itself.”   The significance and value of the arts as community assets has sparked public intervention to leverage the arts to generate a variety of instrumental benefits. The arts were famously positioned as being of significant value for knowledge workers, the creative class, and the entrepreneurs powering the knowledge economy.  This has been portrayed, largely, as a one-way relationship in which the arts benefit cities economic pursuits.  Such depictions fail to consider the influence of open systems and recognize how communities simultaneously influence the population of arts and culture organizations.  This paper asks, “How do entrepreneurship levels affect the population dynamics of arts and culture nonprofits?”  The interactions between the formation and exit of nonprofit arts organizations and entrepreneurial climate of the 50 US states for the period from 1989 to 2012 are analyzed using negative binomial regression.  Higher entrepreneurial climates are associated with lower incidences of nonprofit arts and culture formations and lower exits.  The implications of this and opportunities for additional research are discussed. 

Sometimes the unthinkable happens: How do catastrophic natural disasters impact the population of arts and culture nonprofits?

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (5) ◽  
pp. 425-437
Author(s):  
B. Kathleen Gallagher, PhD
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Analysis ◽  
Natural Disasters ◽  
Arts And Culture ◽  
Opportune Time ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Nonprofit Arts

Arts and culture organizations face numerous threats, and many of them are economically based in nature. As governments increasingly leverage arts and culture for a variety of policy-based agenda, it is an opportune time to evaluate the vulnerabilities facing and the sustainability of the population of arts and culture nonprofits, particularly under a variety of conditions. This should include cases when the unthinkable happens, as there is a need to understand the characteristics of the population before and after a catastrophic disaster. This research examines the population of nonprofit arts and culture organizations (NPACOs) in the United Sates and answers the questions, “Do catastrophic natural disasters impact the population of NPACOs? Do they alter patterns of formation and exit?” using quantitative analysis.

Representation and Diversity, Advocacy, and Nonprofit Arts Organizations

2017 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mirae Kim ◽  
Dyana P. Mason
Keyword(s):  
Racial Identity ◽  
National Sample ◽  
Arts Organizations ◽  
Professional Background ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Arts And Culture ◽  
Community Issues ◽  
Professional Leadership ◽  
Nonprofit Arts ◽  
Different Levels

In recent years, arts and culture nonprofits have sought to make themselves more relevant to community issues by engaging in advocacy. Based on survey data drawn from a national sample of arts nonprofits, this study compares the different levels of advocacy carried out by all arts nonprofits and by minority-led arts nonprofits. To explain the varying levels of advocacy, this study focuses on the diversity of an organization’s constituents and its surrounding community, as well as the ethnic or racial identity and the professional background of its leader. Our results indicate that constituent and community racial and ethnic compositions are associated with the level of advocacy at arts nonprofits. Also, arts nonprofits with leaders who have been in the arts industry for a significant time are more likely to be engaged in advocacy than otherwise similar organizations. We discuss the implication of diversity and professional leadership on arts nonprofits’ advocacy.

Arts Engagement with Sustainable Communities: Informing New Governance Styles for Sustainable Futures

2011 ◽  
pp. 29-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meg O'Shea
Keyword(s):  
Good Governance ◽  
Cultural Knowledge ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Social Perceptions ◽  
New Governance ◽  
Sustainable Future ◽  
Governance Model ◽  
Arts And Culture ◽  
Arts Engagement ◽  
The Impact

In established processes of governance and related literature, arts and culture have been largely neglected, but work is currently being produced suggesting the importance of arts and culture to processes of good governance and the sustainability transition. A style of governance that fully integrates cultural considerations and understands cultural implications of policy is desirable to address the integrated aims of sustainability and to guide the transition to a sustainable future. The impact of arts and culture on communities and social perceptions is difficult to assess and to anticipate; similarly, the influence of culture on governance and policy is equally difficult to measure, though culture permeates every aspect of social and political life. This article suggests that taking cues from the processes of arts and culture to inform new styles of governance supports an open, adaptive, participatory, and creative governance model that responds to a diversity of voices and alternative modes of communication. It argues that a governance style that integrates cultural knowledge is better able to build equity across present and future generations, and is better suited to support a sustainable future. Empirical examples of arts engagement with two communities practicing sustainable behaviours demonstrate the power of arts and culture to build social capital and to potentially contribute to an inclusive and innovative style of governance.

How Nonprofit Arts Organizations Sustain Communities: Examining the Relationship Between Organizational Strategy and Engagement in Community Sustainability

2019 ◽  
Vol 50 (3) ◽  
pp. 244-259
Author(s):  
Alisa V. Moldavanova ◽  
Nathaniel S. Wright
Keyword(s):  
Nonprofit Organizations ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Organizational Strategy ◽  
Arts Organizations ◽  
Community Sustainability ◽  
Arts And Culture ◽  
Nonprofit Arts ◽  
Scholarly Discourse ◽  
The Relationship

This article investigates the relationship between several elements of organizational strategy and arts and culture nonprofits perceived contributions to community sustainability. We ask the following research question: What are the drivers of arts and culture nonprofits’ engagement in community sustainability? Drawing on data collected from a survey of 175 nonprofits in the state of Michigan, this article reports the findings about arts and culture organizations perceived engagement in community sustainability and factors that may foster or inhibit such engagement. The study advances our understanding of the role that nonprofit organizations play in fostering local sustainable development, and it also informs broader scholarly discourse on the role of arts and culture organizations in a society.

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