Recommended Readings

Community Development

• The Rise of the Creative Class: And How It's Transforming Work, Leisure, Community and Everyday Life
  By Richard Florida
  Research reveals what make communities exciting, attractive places to live.

• The Creative Community Builder's Handbook: How to Transform Communities Using Local Assest, Arts and Culture
  Tom Borrup
  Gives successful strategies, best practices, and "how-to" guidance to turn cultural gems into effective community change. The text delves into key principles of community development and presents 20 case studies from across the U.S. In addition, it lays out five steps to assessing, planning, and implementing creative community building projects.

Creativity and Innovation

• A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future
  By Daniel Pink
  The future of business depends on creative, innovative right-brain thinkers who can navigate the 21st century -- why the MFA is the new MBA.

Fundraising

• Successful Fundraising: A Complete Handbook for Volunteers and Professionals
  By Joan Flanagan
  Excellent book on fundraising with terrific factoids about where the money comes from. Good for the novice as well as experienced fundraiser.

Marketing the Arts

• Standing Room Only: Strategies for Marketing the Performing Arts
  By Philip Kotler and Joanne Scheff
  The book on performing arts marketing. Includes an excellent section on arts education with some surprising statistics

• Waiting in the Wings: A Larger Audience for the Arts and How to Develop It
  By Bradley G. Morison and Julie Gordon Dalgleish
  Great book on attracting new audiences.

Non-profit and Financial Management

• Managing the Non-Profit Organization: Principles and Practices
  By Peter F. Drucker
  The guru of business interviews nonprofit leaders.

• How to Manage an Effective Nonprofit Organization
  By Michael A. Sand
  Deceptively simple, excellent for first-time managers as well as more experienced ones as a refresher on the basic tenets of management.

• Financial Management Strategies for Arts Organizations
  By Frederick J. Turk and Robert P. Gallo
  Excellent step-by-step handbook for financial management.

• Good to Great and the Social Sector
  By Jim Collins
  How businesses and organizations can transform themselves from competency to ones with substantial impact and long term success.

Arts Funding Opportunities

Best Practices for Donor Cultivation

Recommended Readings

Resources for Nonprofit and For-Profit Organizations

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