Haters Gonna Hate: Why the World Hates Millennials
One of my college professors told my class that he started each morning by watching one Ted talk. Since here in Chattanooga, our summer is a little more relaxed then during the season, I’m taking up his advice and starting each day with a TED talk*. One of the first I watched, mainly because I was drawn to the name, was Scott Hess’s presentation at the 2011 TEDxSF called “Millennials: Who They Are and Why We ...
Assessing Programs with the Lean Arts Canvas
I went to a luncheon a few weeks ago on an “Innovation District” that Chattanooga is creating. In that luncheon, the words “Start-Up Entrepreneur” were said no less than 15 times; seriously, I stopped tallying after the 15th. When the buzzword about town is not “art” or “symphony”, it’s easy to dismiss the other and get peeved that seemingly no one is paying attention to the work you’re doing. But, in an April, 2015 post ...
6 Grant Questions and How to Answer Them
The trees are blooming, the flowers blossoming, computer mouses clicking away, and frenzied administrators wandering around quoting narratives and outcome data: Grant writing season is upon us! In truth, it’s probably always grant writing season, but with several large grant opportunities coming due soon, it seems to be at the height. No matter how hard you stare at the blank application repeating “How will we define success?”, that question won’t magically answer itself. Fortunately, Amanda Keating, a ...
Thank you for the authoritative read on this issue. To me, being able to actually see the icon in the…