Venture capitalists are talking about products that get to market with only the most basic features. These products/services think iPhone, twitter, Flip video camera go out to customers in a near raw state and then the developers behind … Continue reading
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Posted on March 19, 2009 by Tommer
This article by Bob Goldfarb on Jewish Philanthropy.com has some great ideas about sharing operating costs, and links to some successful operating nonprofits shared spaces and services. A key finding of the recent Jumpstart study of Jewish startups is that … Continue reading
Posted on March 19, 2009 by Tommer
Two years ago, almost to the day, Tony Blair addressed a crowd of cultural leaders in the Tate Modern. He talked of the past decade as a “golden age” for the arts. Art, he said, “enlarges a country’s capacity to … Continue reading
Posted on March 19, 2009 by Tommer
The National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy last month riled some foundation feathers by recommending that grant makers spend at least half of their grant dollars to help the poor, minorities, and other disadvantaged people. While some critics said the foundation … Continue reading
Posted on March 19, 2009 by Tommer
Doug McLennan on Arts Journal A ridiculous question, sure. The National Endowment for the Arts is the channel through which the federal government invests money in the arts. And though it’s not much money, compared to what other countries invest, … Continue reading
Posted on March 18, 2009 by Tommer
The job of preserving jobs has fallen in part to a small state agency that normally specializes in promoting the arts: The Wyoming Arts Council. The council has applied for $290,000 in National Endowment for the Arts funding through the … Continue reading
Posted on March 17, 2009 by Tommer
“That was then; this is now.” A blunt expression often used in negotiations when one party wants to make clear to the other that previously reasonable expectations are unlikely to be met because of some adverse and unalterable change in … Continue reading
Posted on March 17, 2009 by Tommer
(Left: Painter Jackson Pollock, artist backed early in his career by New Deal arts funds.) Okay, fine. But what kind of art? After a debate that carried a whiff of the Reagan- and Giuliani-era fights over government arts funding — … Continue reading
Posted on March 16, 2009 by Tommer
PRNewsFoto/R.J. Dale President Barack Obama has established a staff position in the White House to oversee arts and culture in the Office of Public Liaison and Intergovernmental Affairs under Valerie Jarrett, a senior adviser, a White House official confirmed. Kareem … Continue reading
Posted on March 16, 2009 by Tommer
…It is a shop front in Nassau Street, a couple of blocks away from Wall Street, that would be utterly forgettable were it not for the two words stamped across its glass: Free Store. In the age of postmodern advertising, … Continue reading