Wallace Takes Arts Organizations From What They Think to What They Know
If your organization is in the arts or providing disadvantaged kids with afterschool and summer opportunities, it is a wonderful thing for the Wallace Foundation to pick you. For everyone else, it is a smart thing to consider what Wallace freely gives away by sharing its extensive and expensive studies produced by independent researchers commissioned by the foundation and made available in its Knowledge Center.
Earlier in October, NPQ reported on one of the foundation’s studies on the subject of scaling. Broadway World alerts us to the foundation’s Building Audiences for Sustainability (BAS) research series. In response to a declining audience base for many major art forms, the Wallace Foundation’s $52 million BAS initiative looked at Ballet Austin through this Discussion Guide. Over time, BAS will study a total of 25 performing arts organizations. The goal is to help these individual arts organizations as well as to develop insights for the arts field in general...