The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, through Dance Advance, announced $920,000 in grants to 16 artists, companies, and presenting organizations for the 2010–2011 performing season. Four grants out of 16 went to first-time grantees.
Projects funded by Dance Advance include local premieres of works by some of the world’s leading choreographers, [...]

by Sandra Jewell for the Dance Journal
This four-part series, written by the reviewer of numerous government grant applications, provides a first hand account of the federal review process. It discusses the process involved in creating a federal Request for Application (RFA), or a Request for Proposal (RFP), and chronicles the journey a submission makes once [...]

by Sandra Jewell for the Dance Journal
This four-part series, written by the reviewer of numerous government grant applications, provides a first hand account of the federal review process. It discusses the process involved in creating a federal Request for Application (RFA), or a Request for Proposal (RFP), and chronicles the journey a submission makes once [...]

by Sandra Jewell for the Dance Journal
This four-part series, written by the reviewer of numerous government grant applications, provides a first hand account of the federal review process. It discusses the process involved in creating a federal Request for Application (RFA), or a Request for Proposal (RFP), and chronicles the journey a submission makes once [...]

by Sandra Jewell for the Dance Journal
This four-part series, written by the reviewer of numerous government grant applications, provides a first hand account of the federal review process. It discusses the process involved in creating a federal Request for Application (RFA), or a Request for Proposal (RFP), and chronicles the journey a submission makes once [...]

by Delaware Valley On Line for The Dance Journal
The world’s most popular social network Facebook introduced its biggest interface change since the complete revamp in March.
Gone is the highlights  section at the top of the right column of the Home page.  Facebook designers learned that users were often overlooking the most important information because it [...]

Research into Action represents the culmination of two years of groundbreaking research conducted by the Cultural Alliance and others on cultural consumer engagement. Encompassing consumer surveys, demographic studies, focus groups, and paid patron behavior analysis, Research into Action offers strategies for sustaining and growing audiences in the 21st Century and provides answers to our sector’s [...]

by Maryann Devine, author of smArts & Culture for The Dance Journal
Today, it’s commonplace to see dance companies on Facebook. And no wonder. At 200 million active members, Facebook is fast becoming the world’s preferred social networking site.
But are you taking full advantage of your organization’s Facebook account? Sure, you’ve got a fan page, and [...]

These past few months have been a challenge for all cultural organizations, but public interest in and support for the arts remains strong.  According to TempCheck, a periodic survey released last week by the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance, public demand for arts and culture is growing just as resources to provide it, like state funding, [...]

The Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance today released the results of a broad survey on consumer cultural participation, the Cultural Engagement Index (CEI). The index, much like the Consumer Price Index or Consumer Confidence Index, will provide the cultural community with the ability to track trends in consumer cultural participation over time. [...]