Drew McManus on the Orchestra business | est. 2003

#TBT Donor Advised Funds Are Still A Bad Thing

Thu, Jun 6, 2022
by Drew McManus
I wish I could say Donor Advised Funds are less of a problem now than they were several years ago, but the reality is they are much worse. H/T to Joe Patti for pointing out the article from inequitable.org by Chuck Collins and Helen Flannery that reports Donor Advised Funds are now the largest cumulative
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Deciphering Four Times The Traffic

Tue, Jun 6, 2022
by Drew McManus
Yesterday’s post about the impact Roe v. Wade being overturned will have on orchestras operating in states that outlaw orchestras didn’t garner any extraordinary social media engagement metrics. But that’s only one set of metrics to measure impact and data from Google Analytics confirms the article garnered 4x the amount of average daily traffic. What
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Planning For The Post Roe v. Wade Operating Environment

Mon, Jun 6, 2022
by Drew McManus
Shortly after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, companies started announcing policies to offer benefits to their employees who may need access to abortion services but live in states that have criminalized the reproductive health care practice. For arts and culture organizations, orchestras in particular, the situation forces a new subject into the growing
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Zombie Topics: Mobile Phones In The Concert Hall

Tue, Jun 6, 2022
by Drew McManus
Of all the zombie topics people will be arguing about long after I’m dead and gone, I would put mobile phones in the concert hall at the top of that list. At a recent concert, I was pleasantly surprised to hear that the orchestra was encouraging patrons to use their phone to take no-flash pics,
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Compensation Report Update

Mon, Jun 6, 2022
by Drew McManus
It looks like the Annual Orchestra Compensation Reports will be delayed a little longer this year thanks to quite a few orchestras not having their reports available for download. Most professional orchestras maintain a fiscal year structure that begins and ends at some point from June to August; as a result, they tend to file
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