This article in the Statistics Canada publication Focus on Culture paints quite a bleak picture of the state of non-profit performing arts organizations in Canada in the 1990s (using the results of six StatsCan surveys from 1991-92 through 1998-99)…. View this resource

This issue of The NASAA Advocate from the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies is a useful summary of the burgeoning body of American research into the impact of the arts on education, youth at risk, business, tourism, and economic development. T… View this resource

This report communicates the results of preliminary research into data sources that can inform performance assessment. The report provides a model for measuring overall grantmaking performance. Because of the cost and difficulty of obtaining direct i… View this resource

This recent economic impact analysis by Americans for the Arts is derived from detailed arts organization and attendee survey data in 91 cities in 34 US states. Input/output tables are used to estimate the economic impact in each of the 91 communitie… View this resource

Given the stock market slide since 2000, some aspects of this report, based on the arts granting activity of over 1,000 American foundations, may have been obsolete as soon as the Foundation Center printed the report. The report finds record increase… View this resource