Digital philanthropy for the arts

Panlogic recently released a report called Digital Philanthropy for the Arts. It’s good – thorough and well-explained and worth recommending to clients as reading material. The key findings are as follows (and taken directly from the executive summary): Emotion is the key reason why people give. Arts organisations need to optimise the giving process to give […]

Digital aspects of the Arts Council Plan 2011-15

The Arts Council have just released their plan for 2011-2015, setting out what they’ll do to deliver their ‘Achieving great art for everyone’ goals and priorities. On the digital side of things, there are various references to partnership, co-production and building capacity, while IP is flagged as a ‘challenge’. It’s all fairly top-line stuff as you’d […]

Taking Part 2011/12 Quarter 1 – Digital Participation

The Taking Part Survey collects data about engagement and non-engagement in culture, leisure and sport in England and has been going for about six years now. The latest results have just been released and, flicking through (yep, I read these things so you don’t have to), I was struck by the continued references to increases in […]