TDC’s Julie Koo spoke about the findings in the study “How Boston and Other American Cities Support and Sustain the Arts” on the Massachusetts Cultural Council’s Creative Minds Out Loud podcast. Take a listen and let us know what you think!
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Commissioned by The Pew Charitable Trusts and the William Penn Foundation, TDC studied the financial health and capitalization challenges of 158 arts and culture organizations in greater Philadelphia. The study found that when it comes to capitalization, strong financial literacy does not translate into robust financial health, and delves into TDC’s latest thinking on the practice changes at individual organizations and within the system as a whole that could bridge this disconnect.
2007
After watching the use of debt skyrocket over the course of a decade, TDC conducted an in-depth study on how debt was deployed by and how it impacted organizations across three different disciplines: arts organizations, human service providers and private schools.
2007
Vital Signs is an examination of the health of Boston’s arts and culture sector from 1999 to 2004. In this work, TDC explored the level of innovation in the marketplace, supply and demand for the arts, the ability for organizations to be right-sized to their marketplace, and the degree to which organizations have engaged audiences.
2003
In a study commissioned by the Boston Foundation, TDC explored the size and scope of the Boston cultural market and examined the financial health of organizations in this sector.
June 22, 2012
A presentation at the 2012 National Conference of the Theatre Communications Group.
2010
The National Capitalization Project, initiated by Grantmakers in the Arts and facilitated by TDC, brought together regional and national funders to share ideas about how funders can respond to capitalization challenges in the nonprofit sector. TDC prepared a literature review about capitalization and summarized the outcomes of the initiative.