Author: Jeffri, Joan

Publication Year: 1982

Media Type: Book

Summary:

Abstract:

This book, written for those managers and artists and their companies, groups, collectives, cooperatives, and institutions, is about money. First, it is about what to do before money: how to consider and choose an organizational format that best suits the mission and purposes of the artists involved, and that allows money to be made and distributed in different ways. Thereafter, it is about obtaining money - raising it through traditional forms of grantsmanship in the private, public, and corporate sectors, making it through earned income activities including back interest and real estate, saving it by sharing costs and activities with other organizations, and understanding its potential in terms of the new technology. (p. ix)

CONTENTS
Preface.

Chapter 1. Before money - Management and organization for small arts groups:

Background.
From personalities to institutions.
Method of organization.
Federal tax exemption for arts groups.

Chapter 2. Raising money - Public, private and corporate grants and gifts:

Whose money is it and what do they expect?
About grants.
Proposal: Dance Theatre Workshop, New York City, to the
               Robert Sterling Clark Foundation.
Proposal: And/Or, Seattle, Washington, to the National
               Endowment for the Arts.
Proposal: The Playwrights' Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 
               to the Continental Bank Foundation.
A last word about grants.

Chapter 3. Making money - Financing techniques and strategies:

Earning income.
Profit support of the arts.
Legal restrictions.
Models.
Loans and banking.
Real estate.
Profit vs. purity.

Chapter 4. Saving money - Survival sharing:

Membership/service organizations.
Materials, supplies, joint purchasing.
Sharing productions and staff.
Joint support facilities.
Joint printing and publishing.
Joint fund raising.
Networks, Joint marketing and distribution.

Chapter 5. Arts money and the new technology:

The art of television.
Cable television.
Cable services.
Audiences.
Costs - The economic reality.
Making deals.
Local origination and public access.
Final payments.

Bibliography.
Index.

Arts & Intersections:

Categories: Financial Management