Harvard University
For The Initiative For Sustainable Arts In America At The Hauser Center For Nonprofit Organizations
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Amount$150,000
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Program
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Date Awarded8/23/2012
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Term36.0 Months
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Type of SupportProject
Strategies
Overview
The Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations at Harvard is a university-wide center that seeks to expand understanding and accelerate critical thinking about the leadership, capacity and role of nonprofits among scholars, practitioners, and policymakers. Partnering with The Foundation Center, which advances knowledge about philanthropy throughout the world, and Fractured Atlas’s mapping tool (Archipelago), the Hauser Center is launching the Initiative for Sustainable Arts, a three-year effort to strengthen sustainability and support for the nations’ arts and cultural assets. The thrust of the project is to develop a fact-based assessment of the sustainability of six urban cultural ecosystems located across the United States. Ultimately, the assessment could galvanize an empirically-grounded debate among stakeholders that could lead to a more cohesive and sustainable community, combined with national arts policy and a supporting funding framework. Hewlett funds will focus on one of the six selected ecosystems, the San Francisco Bay Area region.
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