Tag Archives: Management

Alternatives to Creating “Yet Another” NonProfit Arts Organization

When artists and creative sector groups begin to face the need to fundraise and establish a more organized and permanent structure for the projects they want to develop, the question I am most frequently asked is: “How do we form a nonprofit society?” followed closely by “Where do we get grants and how do we [...]

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Advice to an overworked arts manager

Here’s the summary of a conversation I recently had with a member of an Artist-Run Centre’s management collective. I sit on the Board, and chair the HR committee:

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Money and mindset and the arts…

money issues….
It seems to me that the people who were least interested in math and science, and perhaps who suffered failure in these because the methods used to teach them were not effective with us creative types, are the ones now wanting to offload responsibility for fundraising and financial management for our nonprofit organizations. It [...]

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