Take My Money, Please

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There’s an interesting post by Columbus, Ohio based patron Heather Brown that chronicles her recent experiences donating to arts organizations via their respective websites. The opening narrative describes a frustrating experience where an attempt to make a small, single donation was stymied by a host of hurdles in the online giving process. The impetus for her charitable venture was a moving concert experience, but everything from required registration, through process dead …

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Nashville Gets Some Big Sponsorship Love

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For an orchestra that Bank of America (BoA) deemed so unsustainable that it decided to foreclosure on its primary venue, the Nashville Symphony Orchestra (NSO) still manages to secure large corporate sponsors for their flagship concert series. On 6/13/2013, the NSO announced that Aegis Sciences Corporation has sponsored the orchestra’s 2013/14 Classical Concert series to the tune of $300,000. The orchestra’s press statement includes comments from the sponsor’s CEO and founder …

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What A Genuinely Terrific Good News Story

What musician doesn’t dream of rising to fame by filling in at the very last moment for a featured soloist to rave reviews? After all, it worked for Toscanini and that lighting has to strike again at some point in time, right? It just so happens that it struck again in New Orleans via the Louisiana Philharmonic’s principal clarinet, Christopher Pell. The 7/25/2013 edition of nola.com published an article by Chris …

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Small Change = Big Returns

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Sometimes, it’s the little things that produce big changes. Case in point, after using the same image in the 100% Reader Supported area of the blog’s sidebar since 2010, I put together something new. The change was nothing more than a convenient excuse to try a new Photoshop template I had wanted to play with but the returns have been marvelous! Since swapping out the image, the number of coffee tips …

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Show A Development Pro Some Love

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There’s a wonderful post from Joe Patti over at Butts In The Seats titled Info You Can Use: Development Directors Need Love Too that examines the dangerously high levels of career unhappiness among development professionals. We examined the very same topic here back on 1/22/2013 and it’s good to see other folks picking up on the topic. In short, we can’t expect this predicament to get much better if it doesn’t …

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