Let’s Try This Again, This Time With Feeling
Mon, Apr 4, 2021
by Drew McManus
If you tried to get in on the Shuttered Venue Operators Grant online application process, the bad news is you probably got caught up in the same showstopper results as most organizations. The good news is the application portal will reopen today, Monday April 26 at 12 noon ET. The Small Business Administration has been
Are You Ready For Some Hard Marketing Truths?
Fri, Apr 4, 2021
by Drew McManus
There’s a great article by Janet Balis in the 3/10/21 edition of the Harvard Business Review titled 10 Truths About Marketing After the Pandemic. Item #2 really caught my attention: Old truth: “You are competing with your competitors.” New truth: “You are competing with the last best experience your customer had.” Balis examines some strategies
Nonprofit Bids Is Up And Running!
Thu, Apr 4, 2021
by Drew McManus
Nonprofitbids.com is officially up and running. The original scope of focusing on nonprofit Request For Proposal (RFP) has been expanded to include lighter project work. Finding the right provider can be challenging for nonprofits. When a project comes up, most nonprofit admins take to social media or ask for colleague recommendations to find a freelancer
Diversity & Equity
Wed, Apr 4, 2021
by Drew McManus
In light of recent news, I want to post this podcast episode featuring Ruby Lopez Harper, Americans for the Arts Senior Director of Local Arts Advancement, and Dr. Brea M. Heidelberg, Associate Professor & the Director of the Entertainment & Arts Management program at Drexel University. These two dynamic and candid guests produced one of
FREE Provider Directory Listing At Nonprofit Bids
Tue, Apr 4, 2021
by Drew McManus
In the wake of how successful candidate resume profiles are at Arts Admin Jobs, I decided to adopt the idea to NonprofitBids.com. This move will help expand the original scope of the site to encourage nonprofit arts and culture orgs to use the site not only for posting formal Request For Projects (RFP) but also
Office Return Poll Results: Arts Admins Want Everything
Mon, Apr 4, 2021
by Drew McManus
Last week’s survey asking readers about their current remote work status and if they are developing any preference for going back to the office or staying remote generated a good bit excitement. At just over 400 responses, let’s take a look at what we discovered. Most Arts Admins Are Working Remote Only a quarter of
The Simple Joy Of Telling People To Go Away
Fri, Apr 4, 2021
by Drew McManus
If nothing else, the pandemic has made everyone aware of the need for establishing work/home boundaries in a home office setting. If only one person is working form home, that’s not too challenging but when you have two or more people regularly traveling through each other’s space, it’s not so straightforward. Case in point, I’ve
How Did We Find Employees Before This?
Thu, Apr 4, 2021
by Drew McManus
I’m very happy to see the response coming in for the new Candidate Database at Arts Admin Jobs. We keep receiving new profile submissions on an almost daily basis (submit yours now) and each one gets us one step closer to fundamentally changing the way nonprofit arts and culture orgs go about finding talent. The
You Don’t See This Every Day
Wed, Apr 4, 2021
by Drew McManus
We live in interesting times which means we get to see a lot of interesting things. Case in point, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra announced an event on April 30 and May 1 that will not only include members of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra but serve as a benefit for the Met Orchestra Musician fund and
Shop Talk S01E16: Academia/Pro Divide
Tue, Apr 4, 2021
by Drew McManus
“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I ended up where I needed to be.” That’s one of my favorite lines from Douglas Adams’ Dirk Gently series and it’s a perfect way to describe my conversation with guests Eric Esparza and Michael Lewanski. We started off talking about the academia/pro divide
