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In this report, Richard Florida and collaborators apply the analysis from his popular 2002 book The Rise of the Creative Class to Canada, with particular emphasis on Ontario. The authors argue [...]

This website contains a range of useful research articles for the non-profit sector. Two reports deal with the contribution of volunteers to an organization. Measuring the value that your [...]

As the title promises, this report does the basic work of measuring the size, staffing and composition of Canada’s non-profit sector. Based largely on the same data set as CPRN’s job [...]

This report is an important assessment of the quality of jobs in Canada’s non-profit sector compared to for-profit businesses and quasi-government organizations. Drawing on a 1999 [...]

Many communities claim to be an “arts capital”. What does this term really mean? Using data for 20 US metropolitan areas, this article proposes measures for the quantity, health and [...]

Any report that recommends to keep a community “weird” is at least worth a glance. This report on economic development in Austin, Texas – the self-proclaimed “Live Music [...]

Based on two years of research, this report highlights issues and an agenda for local cultural development that Canadians could also consider, including a “neighbourhood by neighbourhood [...]

According to this article in Statistics Canada’s Daily, 1999/2000 was “one of the best years ever” for Canada’s heritage institutions. Museums, historic sites, archives, [...]

This Canadian site is similar in nature but more extensive and detailed than the NEA site. The Cultural Management Institute, as the name implies, is intended as a life-long learning and career [...]

The National Endowment for the Arts has posted on its website a free strategic planning resource for arts organizations. The “Lessons Learned Toolsite” is a compendium of planning [...]