According to the Washington Post, the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts' Executive Director has announced that he will be hitting the road visiting all 50 states and spreading the deep and profound wisdom the Center has to offer on "addressing the challenges in areas like fundraising, building more effective boards of trustees, budgeting and marketing".
As I stated back in the fall when this Initiative was launched, I don't understand exactly what the Kennedy Center will tell all the uber-struggling nonprofit art groups throughout the country. Other than, or course, what it's like to have really deep pockets. More importantly, I don't quite get what the Kennedy Center gets out of this effort.
Do I think its bad someone wants to support arts organizations through this weather? Not necessarily, although it has the potential common to really big organizations, sucking up money away from a number of other arts-capacity building groups -- but maybe that's just the way the new economy will be in the nonprofit sector.
If you are particularly interested in the arts and this economy, the Washington Post has also published a special report specifically on this topic.
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