"New Arts Resource Available on Web Site"
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National Endowment for the Arts
Washington, DC, USA United States of America

he National Endowment for the Arts announces the addition of an important new resource to the Endowment's Web site (http://arts.endow.gov/pub/Lessons/) to assist non-profit arts organizations in managing the various challenges they face. Forty arts management case studies have been added to the site as part of the Lessons Learned: A Planning Toolsite featured on the Arts Endowment's Web site.

The case studies cover a number of arts disciplines such as dance, theater, visual arts, music, literature, folk arts and media arts. Topics include minority audience development, capital campaigns, strategic planning, community partnerships, social entrepreneurism, and fiscal crises among others. The studies were written by noted arts administrators, consultants and writers under the guidance of commissioning editor Morrie Warshawski, an arts consultant working with The Bay Consulting Group of San Francisco.

These case studies provide the arts community with real examples of the kind of situations encountered by the non-profit arts community today, stated Bill Ivey, Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts. By placing these studies on the Endowment's Web site, organizations have immediate access to this important information and can see firsthand effective strategies to long-term planning in the non-profit world.

We are very excited by the prospect of increasing the usefulness of our Lessons Learned planning articles by examining some programs in detail and helping the field gain a clearer understanding of planning issues both large and small, stated Morrie Warshawski.

The National Endowment for the Arts commissioned the case studies during 1998 in an effort to expand the number of planning resources available to the non-profit arts community and highlight examples of successful programs nationwide.

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