Arts & Culture Innovations that improve the vibrancy of arts and culture in society
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Fighting Social Exclusion, One Encounter at a Time
Exeko seeks to better understand social, cultural, and intellectual exclusion and work to eliminate it.
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Civic Engagement: Why Cultural Institutions Must Lead the Way
Arts and culture organizations have the power to drive the cultural movement America needs to deliver democracy.Latest
Using Story to Change Systems
We need to develop new processes of collective storytelling across sectors to navigate turbulent times and foster systems change.
Building Community by Sharing Books
Little Free Libraries draw neighbors together on street corners, on school campuses, and in police stations.
Can the Internet Revitalize Local Languages?
The digital tools that threaten local languages also offer potential to keep them alive.
Creating a Policy Index for the Arts
The National Arts Index established a quantitative measure for arts vitality in the United States that aided public discussion by policy makers and the arts community. In the era of big data, what can we learn from its creation and impact?
Capital for Creativity
Impact investors have ignored the arts and culture sector, at the expense of the communities they seek to help.
The Mortality of Arts Nonprofits
The funding ecosystem has a greater role to play in the survival of nonprofits than their internal structure.
Social Innovation in 3-D
Innovators are T-shaped. Social innovators must be more.
Dance Revolution
The Wooden Floor is licensing its successful model of using arts education to break the cycle of poverty.
Tend It Like Beckham
Vi-Ability uses football to get disengaged British youth interested in acquiring the skills and experience necessary to succeed.
Collaborative Fundraising
The Contributor Development Partnership is revitalizing public broadcasting with a fundraising model that can help other large nonprofits with local affiliates.
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Using Story to Change Systems
We need to develop new processes of collective storytelling across sectors to navigate turbulent times and foster systems change.
Building Community by Sharing Books
Little Free Libraries draw neighbors together on street corners, on school campuses, and in police stations.
No art? No social change. No innovation economy.
America must invest in art and imaginative capacity.
Fostering the Creative Economy
The creative industries—those at the crossroads of arts, culture, business, and technology—can offer an economic jump-start for recovering economies.
Social or Cultural Entrepreneurship: An Argument for a New Distinction
A look at the difference between cultural and social entrepreneurship.