Based on interviews with five American community foundations and 45 cultural organizations involved in 19 foundation-funded partnerships, this report identifies potential advantages and drawbacks of partnerships and outlines the implications for fund… View this resource

This report, commissioned by the Canadian Conference of the Arts from Hill Strategies Research, examines spending on culture by federal, provincial, and municipal governments in Canada. Total government spending on culture, including transfers, was $… View this resource

Consumer Spending on Culture shows that Canadian consumers spent $22.8 billion on cultural goods and services in 2003, an amount that is greater than consumer spending on tobacco, alcohol and games of chance combined. The $22.8 billion in consumer sp… View this resource

An online self-publishing website has compiled information from the New York Times bestseller list from 1955 to 2005. The results? Women are currently more prevalent than ever on the bestseller list, having written 50% of the #1 bestsellers thus far… View this resource

Who Buys Books in Canada?, a recent report in the Statistical Insights on the Arts series by Hill Strategies Research, shows that a total of $1.1 billion was spent on books in 2001. An average of $196 was spent by each of the 5.7 million households w… View this resource