{"id":2016,"date":"2019-05-12T17:33:26","date_gmt":"2019-05-12T21:33:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/managementandthearts.com\/5e\/?p=2016"},"modified":"2019-05-12T17:33:33","modified_gmt":"2019-05-12T21:33:33","slug":"management-and-the-arts-5e-may-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/managementandthearts.com\/5e\/blog\/management-and-the-arts-5e-may-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Management and the Arts 5e – May 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Givz app. How do we \u2018Other\u2019? Museum Self-Policing? <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This month I thought the three articles below could be used\nto discuss topics in fundraising, psychological biases that impact efforts to\ncreate more inclusive arts organizations, and museum ethics. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Will the Givz<\/em> App Mean More Giving?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The app Givz<\/a> sounds like it can be a helpful tool for promoting mobile charitable giving. The Blackbaud Institute<\/a> reported in 2018 that online giving to arts and cultural organizations had increased to a total of 8.1% of annual fundraising. People are slowly becoming more comfortable with this form of donating to a range of non-profit organizations. \u00a0Givz<\/a><\/em> reduces donor losses that can occur when encountering a cumbersome process for making an online or mobile donation. A productive outcome of using this app could be that arts organizations would be able to follow up with Givz <\/em>donors to engage them in other giving programs and to build long-term relationships with them. A focused discussion could ensue about strategies arts organization might develop to better leverage online and mobile giving. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

High-Status\nIdentities?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I find the British Psychological Society monthly newsletter the psychologist<\/a> a good source for interesting research and ideas that can be applied to managing and leading arts organizations. The recent article about \u201cnon-conscious knowledge activation\u201d struck me as a way to explore the problems cultural organizations face as they attempt to implement diversity, equity, and inclusiveness (DEI) initiatives. The article is framed around a reflection on experimenter biases psychologists may harbor, but I think the topics covered are worth exploring when considering how an arts organization structures its DEI efforts. For example, how does our \u201cautomatic working memory\u201d undermine our aspirations to build more inclusive organizations? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Are Museums\nSelf-Policing? <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last month I shared a link to a story from The Economist<\/a> about museums dealing with public reactions to artworks appropriated from other cultures and financial support from donors found not to be operating in the public interest (The moral maze of museum management<\/a>). A recent article from the NY Times<\/a> questions the ability of museums to police themselves and provides a more in-depth option for a class discussion about whether public trust in museums is being undermined. Is this really the case? A conversation could also be started about how well cultural organizations are doing sharing their values with the public. Finding a cultural organization’s values statement can often be challenging. How important is it to make these statements available to the public? For example, if an organization isn\u2019t helping the people see how its values are connected to its mission then how ‘valuable’ are these statements in the first place? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s all for this month. Since the academic year has ended for many of you (or will end soon), I will take a break myself, and I will be back in early August with an update to the Management and the Arts Blog<\/em>. I hope you have a great summer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Best wishes, <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bill Byrnes<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This new app\nlets you give to charity like you\u2019re Venmoing a donation<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Givz makes\nit take just one click to make a donation, so there\u2019s no excuses now.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

John Converse Townsend, Fast\nCompany<\/em>, April 17, 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite the fact\nnearly half of Americans can\u2019t come up with $400 for an emergency, everyday\npeople are powering a great philanthropic boom. In recent years, as much as 70%\nof contributions in the U.S. have come from individual donations.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you\u2019re reading\nthis, though, chances are you\u2019re not regularly writing checks and licking\nstamps. And if you are, well, surely you wish there were an easier way. You\u2019re\nliterally trying to give your money away, so why can\u2019t giving be as easy as\npaying back a friend who picked up the dinner tab?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a horrifying\nstat, but somewhere between 60% and 90% of people who start to fill out their\nname, address, credit card, and phone number drop off before they actually\nfinish donating,\u201d says Andrew Forman.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Forman, a former\ninvestment banker, is the founder of Givz, a new free app, available for both\nApple and Android devices, that simplifies the giving experience. It\u2019s like\nVenmo, but for charity.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

To read this article, please use this link: https:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/90335022\/this-new-app-lets-you-give-to-charity-like-youre-venmoing-a-donation<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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How do we\n\u2018other\u2019?<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Peter Hegarty, the psychologist <\/em>newsletter, May 2019, Vol. 32<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Psychological research\nand practice can enhance or reduce social fairness, and it often does both.\nThis article examines how and why researchers inadvertently reproduce social\ninequalities when certain habits of thought affect our framing of our research\nfindings.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016 Tamika Cross,\na young African-American woman, was a passenger on a flight across the USA when\ncabin crew asked if any doctor on board could help in an unexpected medical\nemergency. When Dr. Cross came forward, she was initially prevented from\nhelping the ill passenger; the cabin crew took some time to be convinced that\nshe was indeed a doctor. When a white doctor next presented himself, Cross was\nreportedly told, \u2018Thanks for your help, but he can help us.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cross\u2019s experience\ncould have been particular, but the viral response to it from other young\nAfrican-American professional women suggests that it is not. Category norms for\nprofessions may fold in not only information about gender, but also race, and\ntheir intersections (Cole, 2009). And they can be a matter of life-and-death.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, this was a\nreal-life version of the now famous surgeon riddle:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A man and his son were away for a trip. They were driving\nalong the highway when they had a terrible accident. The man was killed\noutright but the son was alive, although badly injured. The son was rushed to\nthe hospital and was to have an emergency operation. On entering the operating\ntheatre, the surgeon looked at the boy, and said, \u2018I can\u2019t do this operation.\nThis boy is my son.\u2019 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In their 2006 study,\nDavid Reynolds, Alan Garnham and Jane Oakhill found that about half of people\nwho have not seen this riddle before failed to find the correct answer that the\nsurgeon was the boy\u2019s mother. Surely everyone these days knows that some\nsurgeons are women, so why do they find the riddle difficult? Because the noun\nsurgeon automatically calls to mind imagery of a man. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

To read the full article, please use this link: http:\/\/thepsychologist.bps.org.uk\/volume-32\/may-2019\/how-do-we-other<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Money,\nEthics, Art: Can Museums Police Themselves?<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Holland Cotter, NY\nTimes<\/em>, May 9, 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For generations\nAmericans tended to see art museums as alternatives to crass everyday life.\nLike libraries, they were for learning; like churches, for reflection. You went\nto them for a hit of Beauty and a lesson in \u201ceternal values,\u201d embodied in\nrelics of the past donated by civic-minded angels.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

You probably didn\u2019t\nknow \u2014 and most museums weren\u2019t going to tell you \u2014 that many of those relics\nwere stolen goods. Or that more than a few donor-angels were plutocrats trying\nto scrub their cash clean with art. Or that the values embodied in beautiful\nthings were often, if closely examined, abhorrent.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today, we\u2019re more\nalert to these ethical flaws, as several recent protests against museums show,\nthough we still have a habit of trusting our cultural institutions, museums and\nuniversities among them, to be basically right-thinking. At moments of\npolitical crisis and moral confusion we look to them to justify our trust.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

To read the article, please use this link: https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/05\/09\/arts\/design\/museums-ethics.html<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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