I’m taking a quick break from the blog series that grew out of my workshops at SWTC to highlight the signs that the nonprofit theatre reckoning is here; the reckoning many of us saw coming at the beginning of the pandemic…but was blissfully delayed by SVOG funding. Yesterday, I read this article on Williamstown Theatre […]
Category: funding
Learning from Arena Stage: Budgeting for capital and programmatic success
This article came out in the Washington Post a couple of weeks ago about Arena Stages’ inability to hold up the promise of full productions of new American plays in their Kogod Cradle space. It is a well-written article about promises made at the beginning of a triple-digit million dollar capital campaign compared to realities nine […]
Enlightened and Inspired Funding from the Nonprofit Finance Fund and Doris Duke Charitable Foundation
In nonprofit theatre, folks spend a lot of time talking about how the “model is broken.” That phrase is bandied about referring to the production model, the business model, the funding model, you name it. Within all the broken talk, there are a few brave souls actually testing new models. The Nonprofit Finance Fund (NFF) and the […]