2015 – Page 49 – Adaptistration

Funding Rights And Accurate Program Costs And Bears. Oh My!

Thursday, January 29th, 2015 by Drew McManus

Joe Patti recently published a terrific pair of articles from his Info you Can Use series that are well worth your time. Know Your Funding Rights examines a nonprofit’s right to apply overhead expenses to program costs for grant applications and his follow-up post, Figuring Out True Program Cost, is geared toward helping groups get back into the habit of generating accurate expense reports for grant applications (hint: the key word …

Reader Request: How Do Negotiations Work?

Wednesday, January 28th, 2015 by Drew McManus

I’ve been combing through the 2015 reader surveys and one response to the question “Which topics you would like to see covered?” caught my attention; specifically, the reader wanted to know about how the bargaining process actually worked. The reader indicated a level of frustration with traditional media coverage in that it doesn’t describe what actually happens during negotiations. Fortunately, the negotiation process was one of the very first topics covered …

Broadening The Perspective On Equal Pay For Equal Work

Tuesday, January 27th, 2015 by Drew McManus

When we started examining the topic of equal pay for equal work as applied to substitute orchestra musicians, otherwise known as parity, we compared the parity rate at US and Canadian orchestras in an article from 2/26/2014. At that time, just over two thirds of Canadian symphonic orchestras maintained parity, which was twice the rate of US ensembles. Unfortunately, I left out one important variable in that examination, the only professional …

Get To Know Your Millennials

Monday, January 26th, 2015 by Drew McManus

I published an article today at ArtsHacker.com that examines an entirely useful infographic from badegeville.com about the marketing and employment habits of Millennials. It’s a wonderfully comprehensive infographic in that it doesn’t gloss over a few key points and instead, focuses on a broader data cross section. At the same time, the data is presented from the value perspective of a typical commercial enterprise but the ArtsHacker post covers a few key excerpts …

Labor Unrest Continues To Impact Retention

Friday, January 23rd, 2015 by Drew McManus

There’s a fascinating article in the 1/22/2015 edition of ArtsATL.com by Mark Gresham featuring an interview with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s (CSO) new Principal Bassoon, Keith Buncke. Prior to winning the CSO audition, Buncke served in the same position with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra (ASO) and when asked about that organization’s recent lockout and history of labor unrest as reason for seeking work elsewhere, Buncke had some intriguing replies. Buncke handled …