Reaching Millennial Donors
Are you tired of hearing about millenials yet? Since we’re the next generation of donors, audience members, volunteers you might just get used to us. If my Facebook feed says anything, we are single handedly responsible for bringing pumpkin spice lattes back in September. We’re not all that bad. In fact, we’re actually learning to be pretty good and generous. According to the Millennial Impact Report, nearly 40% of us gave amounts between $1-50, and ...
Nine Effective Practices for Building Arts Audiences
A few months ago, the Wallace Foundation presented a forum with NEA Chair Jane Chu (who I absolutely think is a rock star diva) and 3 other arts leaders talking about building arts audiences. Some great, great thoughts to ponder and takeaways (“Creativity doesn’t stop at the stage, but continues into the administration” ~ Robert Battle; “Honor the individual, your participation matters” ~ James Houghton). Check out the conversation on twitter using #buildingartsaudiences. Pre-conversation though, ...
Visualizing The World’s Biggest Data Breaches
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If you’re an arts administrator or board member, it can be all too easy to read about data breaches in mainstream media then let it fade into out-of-sight, out-of-mind and secretly hope that your organization never has to be listed in one of those stories. Nonetheless, hope isn’t legal tender in the land of responsibility so to help illustrate just how much of an issue data breaches have become, swing over to this sobering, yet ...
Thank you for the authoritative read on this issue. To me, being able to actually see the icon in the…