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The Arts Sector is Being Decimated by COVID-19. What Are Funders Doing in Response?
I reached out to funders, nonprofits and arts advocates, asking them how philanthropy can make the greatest impact in the present moment. Three key themes emerged. First, “donors are doing much of what we would hope for: asking institutions what they need,” said Melissa Cowley Wolf and Sean McManus ...
The Malta artpaper
The Holy Grail
With funding becoming ever-more competitive, and more essential to cultural institutions and artists alike, we talk to international arts funding and philanthropy expert, Melissa Cowley Wolf about arts advocacy and revenue streams…
THE ART NEWSPAPER
What will cultural philanthropy look like in the 21st century? A new forum aims to find out
The first thing the organisers did was draw up a database of donors, directors, and other artworld insiders to get, as the forum’s director Melissa Cowley Wolf describes it, a 360-degree view of the sector. Of the more than 500 cultural professionals they surveyed, 78% said they were either “somewhat concerned” or “very concerned” about about philanthropic trends…