Policies are what
governments, organizations and businesses develop to
guide the management
and conduct of their affairs.
Who creates policies?
People! People have opinions, policy is subjective!
Policy is about
promoting one's values and getting others to believe those values, as well.
Read Reflections
on Arts Policy below for more on this subject!
Please promote positive
arts policy! Click on the Advocacy button for more details!
Policy Resources & Organizations
Reflections
on Art Policy or POLICY 101
Actions
without Borders
http://www.idealist.org
Links volunteers to organizations.
American Assembly
475 Riverside Drive,
Room 456
New York, NY 10115
(212) 870-3500
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/amassembly/
The American Assembly, an affiliate of
Columbia University was founded by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1950
"to illuminate issues of public policy. " This includes the arts and the
public purpose program and the companion publication, an excellent text.
ArtsNet: Arts Management Information
Service
http://artsnet.heinz.cmu.edu
ArtsNet provides services and information
relating to arts management and cultural resources on the Internet.
ArtsNet works with organizations that
facilitate services in the interest of the arts community to provide access
to: public information, management resources, funding information, andcommunications
services. ArtsNet is a community service offered by the Master of Arts
Management Program and The Heinz School of Public Policy and Management
at Carnegie Mellon University.
Center for Arts
and Culture
401 F Street, NW
Suite 334
Washington, DC 20001-2728
Telephone: 202-783-5277
http://www.culturalpolicy.org
Email: center@culturalpolicy.org
The Center for Arts and Culture was founded
by a consortium of foundations seeking new policy directions in America’s
cultural life. Formulating a cultural policy network, offers conferences
and other resources.
CultureWork
http://aad.uoregon.edu/culturework/culturework.html#2
CultureWork is an electronic publication
of the University of Oregon Institute for Community Arts Studies. Its mission
is to provide timely workplace-oriented information on culture, the arts,
education, and community.
Also here: Institute for Community Arts
Studies
The National Initiative for a Networked
Cultural Heritage (NINCH)
21 Dupont Circle NW,
Washington, DC 20036
(202) 296-5346
http://www.ninch.org
A diverse coalition of arts, humanities
and social science organizations
created to assure leadership from the
cultural community in the evolution of the digital environment.
Research Center for Arts and Cultures
http://www.tc.columbia.edu/academic/rcac
Located at Teachers College, Columbia
University, the Research Center for Arts and Culture is a service and resource
for arts institutions, policy and decision makers, funders, scholars, individual
artists and managers. RCAC is committed to applied research about artists,
arts management, arts law and arts marketing.
UNESCO: United Nations Educational,
Scientific and Cultural Organization
http://www.unesco.org
Offers information services, publications,
statistics, legal information, and cultural policy
facts of the United Nations countries.
The Urban Institute
2100 M Street, N.W.
Washington, DC 20037
(202) 833-7200
http://www.urban.org
A nonpartisan economic
and social policy research organization.
The Urban Institute investigates social
and economic problems
confronting the nation and analyzes efforts
to solve these problems.
Webster's World of Cultural Democracy
http://www.wwcd.org
Webster's World is an online center for
information and discussion of cultural policy, cultural issues, and cultural
development practice. WWCD was established under the nonprofit aegis of
The Institute for Cultural Democracy to provide a comprehensive picture
of the cultural landscape from the perspective of cultural democracy --
pluralism, participation and equity in
community life.