“Embrace what makes you Different” and other Fundraising Techniques
“Fundraising is the gentle art of teaching the joy of giving.” – Henry Russo I don’t know how it happened, but because of a Bluegrass festival...
Tag: innovation
Introducing 2017 Featured Artist, Arnaldo Sanchez
You’ve probably heard of our friends over at Art Connection Studio. We’ve covered them on the blog (Art Around Town: Art Connection Studio and One-o...
Arts Innovation Day Recap: Marketing for Dummies
By Jenny Haskins, New Britain Museum of American Art Similar to many other art museum professionals, my educational background is not in Marketing so much as Ar...
Arts Innovation Day Recap: A Nonprofit Heart but a For-Profit Discipline
By: Tracey Mozdzierz of Judy Dworin Performance Project How does a small nonprofit navigate around the many challenges of employing and engaging their staff? Wh...
Arts Innovation Day Recap: Why the Comfort Zone is Not the End Zone
by Amanda Young, Wadsworth Atheneum “I specialize in taking people outside of their comfort zone…only to show them how powerful they can be when they get there....
Arts Innovation Day Recap
“You can’t solve a problem on the same level that it was created. You have to rise above it to the next level.” A quote attributed to Albert Einstein that could...
Innovation: Where do you start?
Let’s try a little game of word association. I’ll say a word; you say the first thing that comes to your mind. Breakfast… Sidewalk… Inno...
Funding to 'Drive' Arts Innovation
Over the last two years I’ve been analyzing the Arts Council’s overall investment strategy and considering ways our organization can provide the most meaningful...