Here are a few links to items that I thought might be of interest.
Fast Company has a profile of the Nature Conservancy’s new web campaign. If you are not familiar with Fast Company, I suggest you explore their website. http://www.fastcompany.com/. This article could be connected to discussions related to chapter 11.
Next up is an article I found in The Atlantic about some creative placemaking in California. This article could be used in a number of chapters, but probably fits best with chapter 2.
A report has been added to the Learning Resources for Chapter 12 entitled Cultures of Giving: Energizing and Expanding Philanthropy by and for Communities of Color. The report from 2012 notes that, “Identity-based philanthropy is a movement empowering marginalized communities to organize giving on their own behalf to issues that they deem as most pressing.” I think you’ll find it a valuable report to discuss as you consider the topic of fundraising in chapter 12.
Lastly, The Boston Globe coverage of the new director of the Museum of Fine Arts offers examples of the kinds of knowledge, skills, and abilities needed for an upper level management position covered in chapters 7 and 8.
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How An Old-School Nonprofit Is Learning To Tell A More Captivating Story
The Nature Conservancy’s new water campaign carefully ventures into a more modern style of digital outreach.
The Nature Conservancy, a 65-year-old nonprofit and one of the world’s most well-funded environmental charities, doesn’t necessarily lack for resources to set up a fancy website. But sometimes, even it needs a lesson in how to hold the attention of the capricious Internet generation and tell its story better.
http://www.fastcoexist.com/3044290/how-an-old-school-nonprofit-is-learning-to-tell-a-more-captivating-story
Creating California’s New Bohemia—in an Unexpected Locale
“It’s a great time to be an artist in Fresno.” This is a possibility I had never considered before visiting. And now …
JAMES FALLOWS, APR 6 2015, 12:53 AM – The Atlantic
As we prepare to visit each new town on our travels, we make a list of things we’ve heard about it, good and bad, and the themes, contacts, and possibilities we want to explore.
Usually those lead to something. But in almost all cases, once we get on scene it’s the questions we hadn’t even realized we should ask, until we got there, that play a big part in our education about and impressions of a town. This is an obvious-seeming point: In reporting, and in life, you must both prepare for the foreseeable and be ready for the unexpected. But it’s newly vivid in our minds. And the latest example is: the arts scene in Fresno.
http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2015/04/creating-californias-new-bohemiain-an-unexpected-locale/389691/
Toronto museum head picked to lead MFA
Malcom Gay, BOSTON GLOBE STAFF,Apr 9, 2015
Canada’s Matthew Teitelbaum — whose Art Gallery of Ontario has been dubbed Toronto’s “hippest hangout” by one publication — was named Thursday to take over as director of Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts.
The announcement came after a nine-month international search that included dozens of candidates. Teitelbaum, 59, will replace MFA director Malcolm Rogers, whose tenure of more than 20 years will end when Teitelbaum starts Aug. 3.
http://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/2015/04/09/mfa-names-matthew-teitelbaum-its-new-director/z47vzkWGW0zXl4qYytAlJM/story.html