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By Katie Chasowy

DIGit: Not-For-Profit Numbers is a weekly roundup of news and blog links related to not-for-profit financial management with a world-wide scope.

FUNDING

• National Music Centre gets boost as city money flows
  from Calgary Herald – Entertainment
  The former Cantos Music Foundation announced Wednesday that the City of Calgary has agreed to the release of the remaining $22.5 million of the $25 million it had committed to the ambitious project to build a National Music Centre at the site of the historical King Eddy hotel and blues bar in Calgary’s East Village.
• Vancouver to convert industrial buildings into artists’ studios
  from Vancouver Sun – Entertainment / Arts
  Vancouver plans to convert two city-owned industrial buildings into artists’ studios as part of a plan to significantly bolster places for artists to work.
• They Rose In Protest, Now Kansas Arts Groups Cheer
  from NPR – Arts & Life
  Last year, Kansas became the first state in the nation to completely eliminate arts funding.
• Funding Stability Doesn’t Mean Status Quo for Canada Council
  from CAPACOA
  Canada Council for the Arts’ Director and CEO, Robert Sirman, met with leaders of the presenting and touring sector to share the Council’s vision for the upcoming years, now that its parliamentary appropriation has been safeguarded in the last federal budget.
• Small charities suffer financial insecurity because of cuts, survey shows
  from Voluntary Sector Network: Voluntary sector network blog | guardian.co.uk by David Mills
  Small charities say they have experienced financial difficulties since May 2010
• Cultural bodies granted $310m
  from The Australian | Arts
  FIVE cultural institutions including the Sydney Opera House and the State Library will be bolstered to the tune of $310 million.
• San Francisco Nonprofits Unite to Push for Increased City Funding
  from Nonprofit Quarterly
  After years of flat budgets and frozen reimbursement rates for staff wages, San Francisco nonprofits are moving closer to (modestly) increased funding. How did they make their case?

BUSINESS MODELS

• Let charities run businesses as path to self-sufficiency
  from Hillborn by Adam Aptowitzer
  There may be a variety of tools to reduce a charity’s reliance on donations but perhaps the most potent is to unleash the potential that comes with charities running private businesses.
• Private Sector Funding in the New Normal: Working All the Angles!
  from ARTSblog via Business For The Arts
  Suzan Jenkins, CEO of the Arts & Humanities Council of Montgomery County, moderated a convention panel on creative methods for growing new funding born out of the experiences of the recession.

ARTIST RELATIONS & WORKING CONDITIONS

• Theatre groups pan Pumphouse rate hike
  from Calgary Herald – Entertainment
  Temperatures are rising for several Calgary community theatre groups, after the Pumphouse announced rate increases some say will increase the cost of producing a show there by 70 per cent.
• Fees limit in Orchestra’s bankruptcy to rise
  from Philly.com Performing arts
  Fees limit in Orchestra’s bankruptcy to rise.
• Feeling pinched, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra may go part time
  from the Minnesota Star-Tribune by Graydon Royce
  St. Paul ensemble is negotiating with musicians, might cut their workweeks.
• Equity warns of ‘tough fight ahead’ with West End managers
  from The Stage / News Headlines by Natalie Woolman
  Actors and managers in the West End have set out their stalls for the next round of negotiations between Equity and the Society of London Theatre, with the union saying it has a “tough fight ahead”.

DONATIONS & PHILANTHROPY

• The industrialization of philanthropy will change the meaning of charity
  from the Calgary Herald via Imagine Canada
  Since the 1930s the charitable sector has been building out these different industrial components, some more successfully than others. As technology evolves and socialization platforms become more popular, we will see even more activity within these industrial components.
• Shouldn’t ATM giving be helping small charities?
  from Third Sector blog by Jenna Pudelek
  Rather excitingly the ATM giving initiative is kicking off this week, allowing people to make charitable donations through some 8,000 Royal Bank of Scotland cash machines.
• Why my latest charity direct mailer went straight in the bin…
  from Third Sector blog by Gemma Quainton
  This week, my ‘thank you’ package arrived from the charity I signed up to with a door-to-door fundraiser last month, and I’m sorry to say it went straight in the bin.
• Should the Charitable Tax Deduction Exist?
  from Nonprofit Quarterly
  When the Economiststarts to examine the justifications for a tax deduction for gifts to charity—in the U.S. or in the U.K.—the issue of the charitable deduction is no longer sacrosanct.

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