There is ample evidence to demonstrate that nonprofit arts and culture organizations in the United States are rebounding from the Great Recession—albeit more slowly than other parts of the nonprofit sector. The 2014 National Arts Index compiled by Americans for the Arts notes that while the overall economic recovery began in 2009, it did not positively affect the arts until 2012.1 A report from the Urban Institute in 2014 showed that more arts, culture, and humanities nonprofits took the largest hit—proportionately—on revenue during the recession, and also had the largest decrease in total numbers of organizations of any of the subsectors studied.2 Two more-recent reports—one from the Nonprofit Finance Fund (NFF), based on a 2015 nationwide survey of 906 nonprofit arts leaders, the other from the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance, based on data from 5,502 cultural nonprofit organizations in eleven metropolitan areas—highlight some positive trends, as well as continued areas of concern, for the cultural sector.
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Title
Staging a Comeback: How the Nonprofit Arts Sector Has Evolved Since the Great Recession
Creators
Eileen Cunniffe
Julie Renee Goodman - Drexel University, Arts and Entertainment Enterprise
Publication Details
The nonprofit quarterly, pp.16-24
Publisher
Third Sector New England
Resource Type
Journal article
Language
English
Academic Unit
Arts and Entertainment Enterprise
Identifiers
991021933515104721
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