organizational health

Are standard metrics for the arts out of the question?

How do local arts agencies measure organizational and community health? Robert Bush of Charlotte's ASC shares his quest.

Watch NCAR Fellow Karen Brooks Hopkins Talk the Dashboard on Brooklyn’s BRIC TV

Karen Brooks Hopkins, NCAR's New Nasher Haemisegger Fellow, recently visited Brooklyn's BRIC TV to talk about the new KIPI Dashboard

10,000 Steps: How Data Can Lead to a Healthier Cultural Sector

President and CEO of DataArts, Beth Tuttle, explains how the new NCAR KIPI Dashboard gave a power-boost to the data they collect through the Cultural Data Profile.

Go Further

Read the Study on NEA Funding and Community Wealth

The National Center for Arts Research (NCAR) at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, today released findings from an independent research study designed to evaluate wealth distribution in communities with arts organizations that receive grants from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA).

What Drives Community Performance?

How community characteristics impact performance, with specific attention paid to socio-demographic characterisics and the number of competitors, complements, and substitutes in a community.

organizational health