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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.

NCAR is a Toolbox for the Arts

NCAR: Modeling the Arts & Culture Ecosystem: What Drives Performance?

An Overview of High Performance and KIPIs

Coming Soon: The SMU NCAR Dashboard

How KIPIs Account for Organizational Characteristics

Building a Spatial Model: A Sense of Place

Using KIPIs to Account for Sector Characteristics

What's a KIPI? Explaining the Unexplained

NCAR and the Trailblazing Spirit of SMU

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