Assessing One’s Own Performance
What the Irvine Foundation has learned over the past six years about performance assessment.
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Innovations that improve the vibrancy of arts and culture in society (more)
A Global, Crowd-sourced Film for Earth Day
An intrepid filmmaker has collected footage from every country in the world, filmed on the same day, to underscore our commonalities.
Jeff Skoll
Jeff Skoll is one of the most creative, generous, and effective philanthropists of his time. And at age 47, he’s just getting started.
Arts Funding Promotes Neighborhood Vibrancy
The argument that the arts are an economic engine (true or false) is unpersuasive.
Social or Cultural Entrepreneurship: An Argument for a New Distinction
A look at the difference between cultural and social entrepreneurship.
How Not to Handle Succession in the Arts
The most effective bosses wear their power lightly, in cooperation rather than in conflict with the artists they mean to be serving.
From the Field: Impact First
Social enterprises in East Africa seem to have two quite distinct commonalities: a comprehensive, impact-driven business model, and a plan to “scale big.”
No art? No social change. No innovation economy.
America must invest in art and imaginative capacity.