Arts money - raising it, saving it, and earning it

Explores a wide range of options for those working in the arts field -- traditional fundraising from public, private, and corporate sources; earning it through various activities; saving it by sharing costs and activities with other organizations; and understanding new technology opportunities. It also provides analysis of three grant proposals.
First published in 1983, ArtsMoney established itself as a farsighted and cogent guide to fiscal solvency for nonprofit arts organizations, Joan Jeffri's approach is unique: she develops a philosophy for total fiscal management of the nonprofit, then describes how fundraising can be incorporated into that plan as one of many elements, rather than as the sole panacea for all of the organization's financial woes.


About the author

Joan Jeffri is the Director of the Program in Arts Administration at Columbia University' Teachers College, and Director of the Research Center for Arts and Culture. She is the current president of the Association of Art Administration Educators. From 1981-1990, she served as an executive director of The Journal of Arts Management and Law. She is author of Arts Money: Raising It, Saving It, Earning It (1989); The Emerging Arts: Management, Survival and Growth (1990), and editor of Artisthelp: The Artistâs Guide to Work-Related Human and Social Services (1990); and The Actor Speaks, The Painter Speaks, and The Craftsperson Speaks (Greenwood Press, 1994, 1993, 1992), as well as numerous studies on artists, including "Information on Artists I and II" and "The Artists Training and Career Project." Her first careers were as a poet, with Louis Untermeyer as her mentor, and an actress, appearing in the national tour of The Homecoming, in the Boston Company of The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds and with the Lincoln Center Repertory Company in New York City.


Paperback 301 pages (December 1989)

Publisher: University of Minnesota Press