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Archive for May, 2009
In the Arts: Jazz Fest Benefits New Orleans School, Video Artist’s Archive Goes to Smithsonian
May 1st
In New Orleans for the annual Jazz Fest, legendary crooner Tony Bennett yesterday handed out dozens of new tubas, trumpets, and trombones to students at a charter school founded after Hurricane Katrina, the Associated Press reports.
The gift was set in motion by a New York jazz fan who won a $5,000 “Big Give” contest held by Oprah Winfrey’s magazine and decided to put the money toward instruments for New Orleans schools. Mr. Bennett and charitable groups such as Music Rising and the Mr. Holland’s Opus Foundation joined the effort, which procured $100,000 worth of instruments.
In other arts news, The New York Times reports that the estate of the pioneering video artist Nam June Paik will donate his archives to the Smithsonian American Art Museum. The Smithsonian won a competition for the coveted collection, beating out proposals from the Getty, Guggenheim, and Whitney museums and the Museum of Modern Art.
Also, longtime Los Angeles County Museum of Art contemporary-art curator, Lynn Zelevansky, has been named director of Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Museum of Art, reports the Los Angeles Times. She will take office in July, succeeding Richard Armstrong, who left to take over the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation.
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Online Discussion Next Week
May 1st
Join us on Tuesday, May 5, at noon, U.S. Eastern time for a live online discussion on nonprofit marketing.
Next week’s discussion is designed to help newly hired marketing experts move quickly to elevate the public profile of their organizations. But it will also provide advice for other nonprofit leaders who want to learn how to make smart decisions to help their organizations win attention.
Taking your questions will be Kivi Leroux Miller, author of The First 100 Days in Your New Nonprofit Marketing Job.
The Chronicle’s online discussions are free and open to everyone. People who ask questions in advance have a better chance of getting answers.
From The Chronicle: the Googlization of Philanthropy
May 1st
Philanthropy is about to benefit from a revolution in how information is shared — what the Chronicle columnist Sean Stannard-Stockton calls the Googlization of philanthropy.
“Googlization focuses on enabling collaboration and participation by unbundling the process of creating information from its distribution,” he writes in an opinion article in The Chronicle of Philanthropy. “The very technology that is killing newspapers and record companies will revolutionize philanthropy for the better.”
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