National Arts Publications Database

The National Arts Publications Database is a bibliographic tool that gives access current and historical information on a multitude of topics related to arts administration and policy. The database contains over 7,000 bibliographic records—providing arts administrators, policy researchers, and advocates with an asset to help them locate information on arts policy and practice and arts administration resources and best practices. Many recent entries to the database may also include the actual publication for download as well. When possible, Americans for the Arts has included the publication for download, but in many cases the database is purely bibliographic by design.

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Author: King, George V.

Publication Year: 1981

Media Type: Report

If you are new to development work, or if you operate a one-person development office, it may take a good deal of persuasion to get you to launch a deferred giving program. But if you do not begin now, chances are that five years from now you will…

Categories: Fundraising

Author: Floyd, Samuel A.

Publication Year: 1981

Media Type: Report

In 1977, a survey instrument entitled Questionnaire and Minority Faculty Profile was mailed to 1,353 two-year and four-year colleges, universities and conservatories as listed in the 1976-78 edition of the CMS Directory of Music Faculties in…

Categories: Arts Education

Author: Arnold, Mark

Publication Year: 1981

Media Type: Book

For years, Danny Newman, author of Subscribe Now and founder of many performing arts subscription audiences across the country, has encouraged the use of telephone as one component of successful subscription campaigns. Although the idea has been…

Categories: Fundraising

Author: Wyszomirski, Margaret Jane

Publication Year: 1981

Media Type: Book

First, the author briefly describes the history of American attitudes towards the arts which have led to the current elitist-populist debate. Then, she more fully defines the claims and criticisms of both the elitist and the populist position. Next…

Categories: Community Development

Author: Business Volunteers for the Arts/Seattle

Publication Year: 1981

Media Type: Report

Prepared by Business Volunteers for the Arts/Seattle in association with the Seattle Chamber of Commerce, the King Country Arts Commission, and the Seattle-First National Bank. This is an idea book. The ideas are contained in examples - some…

Categories: Private Sector

Author: Salamon, Lester M. and Abramson, Alan J.

Publication Year: 1981

Media Type: Book

Private nonprofit organizations play a vital role in American life. However, these organizations are too often overlooked in public policy discussions. This monograph provides important new data on the scope and structure of the nonprofit sector,…

Categories: Funding

Author: Connors, Tracy Daniel and Callaghan, Christopher T.

Publication Year: 1981

Media Type: Report

Published by AMACOM, a division of the American Management Association and written exclusively for managers of nonprofit organizations, this book takes the mystery out of financial procedures like cost accounting and out of the columns of figures…

Categories: Financial Management

Author: Mellon, Susan and Crawford, Tad

Publication Year: 1981

Media Type: Report

When the subject of artist-dealer contracts came to general attention in the litigious spirit of the 1970s, it initially aroused the same debate as prenuptual contracts: did the supplanting of a traditionally familial understanding by a written…

Categories: Artists-Resources for

Author: Kostelanetz, Richard

Publication Year: 1981

Media Type: Report

When government funding of the arts began, the liberal and libertarian fear was that government money would have deleterious political effects upon the creation and dissemination of the arts in America. This was the kind of malfeasance that the…

Categories: Funding

Author: Wasserman, Steven R.

Publication Year: 1981

Media Type: Book

This work draws together information sources as well as factual details and is designed to serve as a guide to a broad subject of popular interest which has not been served in the past by such a comprehensive source book. It provides factual…

Categories: Artists-Resources for