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		<title>Adding up the elements of arts leadership in Los Angeles…</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Growing visibility for the California Community Foundation For more than 20 years, California Community Foundation has been an agent for the arts in multiple dimensions across Los Angeles County. This spring, staff realized the time had come to pull the strands of activity together and allow a holistic look at the leadership this organization is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://advancethearts.org/2011/07/27/adding-up-the-elements-of-arts-leadership-in-los-angeles/</link>
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		<title>Helping arts donors feel at home…</title>
		<description><![CDATA[House concerts raise money and build relationships in Mendocino County. Supporting arts in schools is a hot topic in communities everywhere, especially as economic woes continue to affect school budgets. The Community Foundation of Mendocino County took on this issue in a high-touch way, organizing a series of intimate concerts hosted in the homes of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://advancethearts.org/2011/04/19/helping-arts-donors-feel-at-hom/</link>
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		<title>Small community foundation. Big arts gift.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Placer Community Foundation receives $1 million for arts Two things might be essential for younger or smaller community foundations that seek to attract the attention—and the resources—of major arts donors. One is a visible commitment to arts and culture. The other is the courage to dream big. These are the takeaways from a homegrown arts [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://advancethearts.org/2011/03/10/small-community-foundation-big-arts-gift/</link>
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		<title>New catalog highlights Fellowships for Visual Artists</title>
		<description><![CDATA[California Community Foundation is changing the artistic face of Los Angeles For a winning example of how a community foundation supports individual artists, look to L.A.  Since 1988 the California Community Foundation has awarded nearly $1 million to 157 emerging and midcareer artists through its Fellowships for Visual Artists. Fellowships allow artists to continue their [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://advancethearts.org/2011/02/16/new-catalog-highlights-fellowships-for-visual-artists/</link>
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		<title>What’s drawing the interest of California arts funders?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Scan sheds light on scale and trends in arts grantmaking The best local arts strategies are informed by knowledge of the larger arts funding landscape. That’s the premise of a project initiated by and for the nine community foundations engaged in Irvine’s Communities Advancing the Arts initiative. These community foundations are developing new sources of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://advancethearts.org/2011/01/20/whats-drawing-the-interest-of-california-arts-funders/</link>
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		<title>An Arts philanthropist&#8217;s bold action has community-wide impact</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ArtPrize supports culture, education and economics in Grand Rapids One “little art experiment” has turned into a prime example of how philanthropy and arts can have seemingly limitless positive effects on a community – drawing praise from school children and senior citizens, from business and government leaders, and from individual artists as well as major [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://advancethearts.org/2011/01/10/an-arts-philanthropists-bold-action-has-community-wide-impact/</link>
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		<title>Going deeper: New study of thousands of arts donors uncovers values and reasons to give</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A study by the East Bay Community Foundation and The San Francisco Foundation chronicles how artists and small- to mid-size arts groups, typically led by artists, found creative ways to involve new donors to support new work. It also uncovers these donors’ motivations to give. Its lessons can help community foundations everywhere advance strategies supporting the success of artists and artist-driven organizations. ]]></description>
		<link>http://advancethearts.org/2010/12/09/going-deeper-new-study-of-thousands-of-arts-donors-uncovers-values-and-reasons-to-give/</link>
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		<title>Looking for a good number of new donors to the arts? Try 3,120.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Bay Area Fund For Artists Matching Commissions Program (originally posted April 21, 2008, updated December 7, 2010) Community foundations take heart: new arts donors are out there. They may just be waiting to be asked—by the artists themselves! A pilot program launched in 2004 challenged smaller arts nonprofits in and around Oakland to attract individual [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://advancethearts.org/2010/12/07/looking-for-a-good-number-of-new-donors-to-the-arts-try-3120/</link>
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		<title>Last in a series on public policy, arts and community foundations…</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A Capitol event: connecting with elected officials California’s nonprofit arts organizations add $5.4 billion to the state’s economy annually, creating more than 160,000 jobs and generating nearly $300 million in state and local taxes. This message that arts are part of the solution—and part of the creative economy— set the stage for a spring legislative [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://advancethearts.org/2010/11/17/last-in-a-series-on-public-policy-arts-and-community-foundations/</link>
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		<title>Second in a series on public policy, arts and community foundations&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A mayor can make a world of difference San Francisco Mayor Christopher’s action to enact a hotel tax to support the arts nearly 50 years ago is mirrored in Sacramento today via Mayor Kevin Johnson. Motivated by his life-long respect for the arts, and inspired by a community foundation event featuring Michael Kaiser, president of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://advancethearts.org/2010/11/09/second-in-a-series-on-public-policy-arts-and-community-foundations/</link>
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		<title>First in a series on public policy, arts and community foundations…</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Pursuing public policies that advance the arts in California communities. What does a community foundation have to do with government policies and spending that support the arts? Any number of things, it seems. That is the finding from a lively two days spent sharing knowledge among a group of ten community foundations working to generate [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://advancethearts.org/2010/11/02/first-in-a-series-on-public-policy-arts-and-community-foundations/</link>
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		<title>When a community foundation leads in the arts, great things can happen…</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Oliver Ranch Foundation is a story more than 25 years in the making, and one with an unlimited future—thanks to the community spirit of a truly visionary couple, and the distinctive capabilities of Community Foundation Sonoma County.]]></description>
		<link>http://advancethearts.org/2010/10/19/when-a-community-foundation-leads-in-the-arts-great-things-can-happen/</link>
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		<title>The “ripple effect”: Building shared responsibility for the arts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Guest post by Margy Waller, Cincinnati Fine Arts Fund Many of us have spent years searching for the strongest possible message and the best case on which to build support for the arts. Yet, the messages we have used to create dialogue in communities across the country have not yielded the broad sense of shared [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://advancethearts.org/2010/03/25/the-ripple-effect-building-shared-responsibility-for-the-arts/</link>
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		<title>Giving hope and help to arts leaders in the midst of a deep recession…</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Embracing dynamic adaptability in the Bay Area Is there anything special arts funders can do to help nonprofits and artists deal with the continued effects of a down economy? Something beyond continued funding opportunities, capacity building, and technical support? That’s the question The San Francisco Foundation (a participant in Irvine’s Communities Advancing the Arts) and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://advancethearts.org/2010/02/09/giving-hope-and-help-to-arts-leaders-in-the-midst-of-a-deep-recession/</link>
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		<title>If you can raise money for the arts in hard times, you can do it any time…</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Five ways CAA-funded community foundations grew arts funds in the worst year since the Depression Most nonprofit fundraisers are glad to see the calendar turn to 2010—personal donations in 2009 declined while social needs skyrocketed. During this tumultuous time, the arts giving landscape might have been bleak, but it was far from barren. Lessons in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://advancethearts.org/2010/01/20/if-you-can-raise-money-for-arts-in-hard-times-you-can-do-it-any-time/</link>
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		<title>Community foundations see the big picture, and help usher in a new era of municipal collaboration in the arts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Launching the East Bay Cultural Corridor Talk about a multiplier effect: Here’s how two community foundations leveraged private foundation dollars to seed a four-city partnership for the arts. It’s an equation worth knowing in regions where acting together is the better path for growing a vibrant, sustainable arts landscape.The action takes place in the East [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://advancethearts.org/2009/11/20/community-foundations-see-the-big-picture-and-help-usher-in-a-new-era-of-municipal-collaboration-in-the-arts/</link>
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		<title>Just ask! Here’s how community foundations can grow arts donor relationships through effective interviewing…</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Probing questions, proven techniques, and a simple process What makes arts donors tick? How can we connect with these givers? These questions are top of mind for all who aim to increase donor support for community arts. Recently, a group of California community foundations turned to research guru Alan Brown to help deepen their understanding [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://advancethearts.org/2009/10/12/just-ask-heres-how-community-foundations-can-grow-arts-donor-relationships-through-effective-interviewing/</link>
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		<title>A recognized voice gives valuable tips on how arts organizations can thrive in a down economy—and inspires a mayor to act for arts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Michael Kaiser, sponsored by Sacramento Region Community Foundation This is the story of what a community—even one facing economic and social issues—can do to stake a claim for arts, and of how a community foundation can spark this public commitment. California’s challenges are visible in its capital, where images of a tent city housing hundreds [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://advancethearts.org/2009/09/23/a-recognized-voice-gives-valuable-tips-on-how-arts-organizations-can-thrive-in-a-down-economy%e2%80%94and-inspires-a-mayor-to-act-for-arts/</link>
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		<title>Powerful message + Memorable event = New momentum</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An Evening of Song &#38; Poetry Community Foundation Sonoma County What can a community do when economic recession threatens local arts organizations and makes donors cautious about their giving? In Sonoma County, these scary circumstances led to a strategy for showcasing local arts—while helping donors reconnect to their passion for creativity in community. If you’re [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://advancethearts.org/2009/08/10/powerful-message-memorable-event-new-momentum/</link>
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		<title>Giving donors recognition…gaining greater awareness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[2009 Champions of the Arts Videos Monterey County Here’s how one community is using video to showcase local arts—and appeal to existing and new donors. This moving medium was a centerpiece in the 2009 Champions of the Arts Gala sponsored by the Arts Council for Monterey County. The Gala offered tribute to community arts heroes—artists, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://advancethearts.org/2009/04/13/giving-donors-recognition-gaining-greater-awareness/</link>
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		<title>Standing for art…</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A private foundation states its case The economy is at a 40-year low. Safety net issues are on the rise at an alarming rate. So why sustain a commitment to the arts? Jim Canales, president and CEO of The James Irvine Foundation, answers this question in the following op-ed appearing in the San Francisco Chronicle. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://advancethearts.org/2009/02/04/standing-for-art/</link>
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		<title>The future of dance philanthropy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One man’s point of view John Killacky is on a quest for relevance. He fears that many grantmakers will establish new priorities and initiatives regardless of what the field of dance actually needs. He calls for foundations and arts organizations alike to hone their ability to adapt to changing times—emphasizing that being dynamic is as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://advancethearts.org/2009/02/02/the-future-of-dance-philanthropy/</link>
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		<title>When the going gets tough…</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sustaining arts in a time of economic turmoil Arts funders and nonprofits agree: We are in an unprecedented time of financial distress, and no one knows when we will reach bottom. This new reality is causing reactions that range from caution to crisis in arts organizations. “We’re seeing lots of white knuckle behavior at the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://advancethearts.org/2009/01/14/when-the-going-gets-tough/</link>
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		<title>Online arts hub ignites community creativity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[SparkOC.com Where is art? Thanks to SparkOC.com, that’s a question of the past for cultural consumers in Orange County. The area’s arts council and community foundation teamed to create a one-stop info source for area residents and visitors. This website is a central element in a larger strategy to celebrate and stimulate creativity throughout Orange [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://advancethearts.org/2008/12/16/online-arts-hub-ignites-community-creativity/</link>
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		<title>Community study finds 121 million reasons to love arts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ventura County Research While everyone figured the local arts scene in this Southern California area was booming, the Ventura County Community Foundation decided to get the facts. It turns out that arts are bigger news than anyone knew. The number of nonprofit arts organizations reporting more than $25,000 in revenues nearly doubled since 1996. Plus, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://advancethearts.org/2008/11/12/community-study-finds-121-million-reasons-to-love-arts/</link>
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		<title>Arts participation: What counts in your community?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Cultural Engagement in California’s Inland Regions A middle-schooler streams YouTube videos. A family shares its heritage through a holiday skit. A baby boomer starts a garage band. Today, many forms of cultural engagement take place off the radar of traditional nonprofit arts organizations. How can community foundations help arts organizations better support the broad range [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://advancethearts.org/2008/10/24/arts-participation-what-counts-in-your-community/</link>
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		<title>Putting community in community foundation arts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[San Diego Arts &#38; Culture Working Group Relevance. Responsiveness. Relationships. Any community foundation working in arts and culture wants more of each. The San Diego Foundation grows these assets through its Arts &#38; Culture Working Group. It’s an approach adopted in 2003 to connect community members to community foundation initiatives. Through this collaboration with volunteers, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://advancethearts.org/2008/10/15/putting-community-in-community-foundation-arts/</link>
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		<title>A question of personal engagement…</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Guest post from Jerry Yoshitomi What&#8217;s your earliest memory of the arts? Chances are, your recollection made you smile. That&#8217;s a testimony to the power of the personal question&#8211;and the way  it can help you engage donors in community arts. The right question provides a window for understanding, and tapping into, the values that underlie [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://advancethearts.org/2008/09/11/a-question-of-personal-engagement/</link>
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		<title>The art of strategic events for donors</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Planning guide Art brings people together. So it’s natural for community foundations to place art—and artists—at the center of events intended to deepen donor engagement. The opportunities for creativity are endless. Receptions in private sculpture gardens, intimate readings by award-winning authors, road trips to major galleries, dinners celebrating up-and-coming artists, and behind-the-scenes tours are just [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://advancethearts.org/2008/08/27/the-art-of-strategic-events-for-donors/</link>
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		<title>Sustainability starts with revenue&#8230; and a simple first step</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Assessing Fund Development Capacity in Monterey All local arts organizations seek financial sustainability. Getting there, however, can be a challenge—even for the most established nonprofits. Community foundations are working to help, and in Monterey County the process begins with a simple but strategic self-assessment tool. ”Our goal is to help arts organizations reflect on their [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://advancethearts.org/2008/08/07/sustainability-starts-with-revenue-and-a-simple-first-step/</link>
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		<title>Voicing culture and community through art</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mi Vida/Mi Pueblo, Greenfield, Calif. Every work of art tells a story. In Monterey County, stories of life told through art are fueling the emotional well-being, cultural pride, and civic engagement of local groups. It’s happening through Mi Vida/Mi Pueblo (My Life/My Town). A series of art workshops in and around the agricultural community of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://advancethearts.org/2008/07/24/voicing-culture-and-community-through-art/</link>
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		<title>Conversing about the arts, virtually</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sacramento Arts Blog A bigger table means room for more people. Sacramento Region Community Foundation is expanding the table—virtually—with a blog aimed at encouraging conversation about local arts. It’s at advancesacarts.blogspot.com, and it supports multiple gatherings that are taking place around a single question: What’s the best way to bring new, long-term resources to arts [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://advancethearts.org/2008/07/17/conversing-about-the-arts-virtually/</link>
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		<title>Looking into the future of art</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sonoma County Emerging Artist Awards 2008 It’s one program with two benefits. The Sonoma County Artist Awards boost the reputations of working artists early in their careers, and raise public awareness of local arts. The awards are a collaboration of the arts community, with leadership from the county’s Arts Council and Community Foundation. A stunning [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://advancethearts.org/2008/06/26/looking-into-the-future-of-art/</link>
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		<title>Answering the million-dollar question…</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Why Support the Arts? It’s a communications conundrum. Community arts leaders have plenty to say about why donors should invest in this arena, but it can be challenging to find the best ways to express these messages. There’s the question of what to state first. Some professionals say lead with instrumental benefits—the role arts play [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://advancethearts.org/2008/06/06/answering-the-million-dollar-question/</link>
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		<title>What would L.A. be without art?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[California Community Foundation Arts &#38; Culture Fund Take a moment to imagine what Los Angeles would be like without theatre, dance, music or paintings. That line, penned by Antonia Hernández, President and CEO of the California Community Foundation, opens a new brochure making the case for arts and culture as the lifeblood of a vibrant [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://advancethearts.org/2008/05/30/what-would-la-be-without-art/</link>
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		<title>If we had it to do over…</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Community Arts Veterans Share Experience What should community foundations consider before entering the arts arena? Plenty. That’s the word from more than 30 program, donor services, and communications pros representing ten community foundations—each with multi-year involvement in Irvine’s Communities Advancing the Arts initiative. They represent a wealth of successes, lessons learned, and continued passion for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://advancethearts.org/2008/05/23/if-we-had-it-to-do-over%e2%80%a6/</link>
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		<title>Irvine grants boost California arts scene</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Communities Advancing the Arts, Phase 2 Invest in what works. So goes the saying—as well as The James Irvine Foundation’s interest in advancing community arts. Irvine announced nearly $3.2 million in new grants to a group of California community foundations. It’s the second phase of Communities Advancing the Arts, an initiative that placed $4.75 million [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://advancethearts.org/2008/04/21/irvine-grants-boost-california-arts-scene/</link>
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		<title>Who cares about arts? It&#8217;s surprising&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Orange County Cultural Indicators Report Who knew? A surprising 64 percent of residents say that they or their family members create or participate in arts. It&#8217;s a fact that shows the value of research, and it came from the Orange County Cultural Indicators Report, this community&#8217;s first-ever study of arts giving and donor perceptions. The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://advancethearts.org/2008/04/21/measuring-progress-toward-a-more-creative-community/</link>
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		<title>Creative economy: What&#8217;s the plan?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Creative Monterey County While lots of communities want to build a creative economy, too few are able to pull everyone together around a plan. Not so in Monterey County, where collaboration, research and dialogue led to a countywide blueprint for collective action. The process was led by the Community Foundation for Monterey County in tandem [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://advancethearts.org/2008/04/21/creative-economy-whats-the-plan/</link>
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		<title>Arts = jobs, spending, healthy economy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Arts and Economic Prosperity III A new study helps answer the old question: What do arts bring to communities? It documents the economic impact of the nonprofit arts and culture industry, and covers 156 communities and regions representing all 50 states and the District of Columbia. The study was conducted by Americans for the Arts. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://advancethearts.org/2008/04/21/arts-jobs-spending-healthy-economy/</link>
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		<title>Bucking the trend: More public funding for arts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Arts Council for Monterey County Less public support for arts is the trend in many communities. Monterey County has reversed the pattern. Here is a happy story of increased commitment to arts by a local government, and of collaboration between a community foundation and arts council to make it happen. It begins in the context [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://advancethearts.org/2008/04/21/bucking-the-trend-more-public-funding-for-arts/</link>
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		<title>Mixing, matching artists and donors has rewards</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sonoma County Emerging Artists Fund Raising permanent funds for arts and helping local artists launch careers are two challenges faced by many communities. Both led to one solution in Sonoma County: an Emerging Artists Fund. It connects the power of endowment giving to the value of providing early support to artists. And it has real [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://advancethearts.org/2008/04/21/creating-community-among-arts-donors-and-artists/</link>
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		<title>Seeing arts in the fabric of community</title>
		<description><![CDATA[pARTicipate San Diego San Diego has lots of arts and culture. But no one really knew how much the community cared about this arena&#8230; until the community foundation took a look. This research project studied who in the community is involved (or not) in the arts. It measured commitment to arts. And it examined the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://advancethearts.org/2008/04/21/seeing-the-arts-in-the-fabric-of-community/</link>
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		<title>True story: Arts change life at community foundation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Orange County Community Foundation “I am raising my son differently because of our work in the arts.” Shelley Hoss, President of the Orange County Community Foundation, is taking her organization’s newfound role in the arts personally. The story begins in the mid-1990s, when Shelley&#8217;s team recognized that arts represented “a gap in both our knowledge [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://advancethearts.org/2008/04/21/true-story-arts-change-life-at-community-foundation/</link>
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		<title>Arts, the democratic ideal, and community leadership</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Community Foundation Sonoma County “The arts are common ground for community, a meeting ground,” says Melissa Kester, Arts Development Officer for Community Foundation Sonoma County. “It’s about expressing different points of view, understanding things in new ways, and coming together around shared experiences.” This insight opens a window for viewing the foundation’s partnership with its [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://advancethearts.org/2008/04/21/arts-the-democratic-ideal-and-community-leadership/</link>
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		<title>Growing donors at the grassroots</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Bay Area Fundraising Tool for Small Arts Nonprofits Sometimes the first step is the hardest. Recognizing that small, community-based arts organizations often need help starting their own fundraising, two Bay Area community foundations took action. The tool they created helps these nonprofits follow a simple blueprint to build a base of donors. It&#8217;s part of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://advancethearts.org/2008/04/21/helping-small-arts-organizations-grow-a-community-of-support/</link>
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		<title>Better data for all, fewer headaches for arts grantees</title>
		<description><![CDATA[California Cultural Data Project Everybody wants to know more and do less, right? The James Irvine Foundation and 30 arts grantmakers are launching the California Cultural Data Project. It’s a statewide collaboration standardizing the information funders collect from grant seekers. The idea is to simplify grant applications, improve grant tracking and get the most from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://advancethearts.org/2008/04/21/better-data-for-all-fewer-headaches-for-arts-grantees/</link>
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