Nonprofit Enterprise in the Arts: Studies in Mission and Constraint

Table of contents

• Title Page iii
• Series Foreword v
• Preface ix
• Aknowledgments ix
• Contents xi
• Contributors xiii
• Introduction 3
• Notes 13
• I Why Are So Many Arts Organizations Nonprofit? 15
• 1: Nonprofit Enterprise in the Performing Arts 17
• 2: Cultural Entrepreneurship in Nineteenth-Century Boston 41
• Ii Between the Market and the Public Purse 63
• 3: Can Culture Survive the Marketplace? 65
• Notes 90
• 4: Corporate Contributions to Culture and the Arts: The Organization of Giving and the Influence of the Chief Executive Officer and of Other Firms on Company Co ntributions in Massachusetts 93
• 5: Support for the Arts from Independent Foundations 113
• Notes 137
• 6: Public Provision of the Performing Arts: - A Case Study of the Federal Theatre Project in Connecticut 140
• Notes 156
• Iii Management and Mission 159
• 7: From Impresario to Arts Administrator: Formal Accountability in Nonprofit Cultural Organizations 161
• 8: Tensions of Mission in American Art Museums 184
• 9: The Elusive Promise of Management Cooperation in the Performing Arts 199
• 10: Financially Troubled Museums and the Law 214
• Notes 239
• Iv Nonprofit Enterprise in Commercial Cultural Industries 243
• 11: Politics and Programs: Organizational Factors in Public Television Decision Making 245
• 12: Should University Presses Compete with Commercial Scholarly Publishers? 277
• 13: Should the News Be Sold for Profit? 279
• V European Perspectives 285
• 14: Public Support for the Performing Arts in Europe and the United States 353
• Index 361

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