Crisis & Opportunity 2.1 featuring the Cultural Data Project

For the third installment of Crisis & Opportunity, Austin Creative Alliance is having a look at the numbers. Because earlier discussions touched on a recurring theme of understanding and strengthening organizations’ advocacy efforts, the Alliance is bringing in representatives from the Cultural Data Project operated by The Pew Charitable Trusts to help the area’s creatives make sense of... [read more]

For the third installment of Crisis & Opportunity, Austin Creative Alliance is having a look at the numbers. Because earlier discussions touched on a recurring theme of understanding and strengthening organizations’ advocacy efforts, the Alliance is bringing in representatives from the Cultural Data Project operated by The Pew Charitable Trusts to help the area’s creatives make sense of their own institutional and community information.

Neville Vakharia—the Director of the Cultural Data Project—and Senior Associate Flo Gardner are traveling from Philadelphia to facilitate the presentation.

The Cultural Data Project (CDP) is a powerful online management tool designed to strengthen the arts and cultural sector. Now operating in 11 states, the CDP is a unique system that enables arts and cultural organizations to enter financial, programmatic and operational data into a standardized online form.

Organizations can subsequently quickly and easily generate reports to use as part of the application process for participating funders. They can also use the CDP as a tool to track their own trends over time or to benchmark key components of their operations against others in aggregate by discipline, budget size, geographic location and many other criteria. This knowledge is power: organizations have leveraged increased board support or lowered their rental costs thanks to their findings.

For more information on this FREE event, stay tuned to AustinCreativeAlliance.org, Nowplayingaustin.wordpress.com, @AustinCreativeA on Twitter, and of course, right here on Facebook.

Hope to see you all there!

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