Back in 2004 I followed up the entry I referenced yesterday with another one tracking how an organization of amateurs can find themselves pressured into professionalizing their operations to the point where good intentions suddenly accumulate some burdens that draw attention away from those core good intentions.
Pro-Am Divide
by:
Joe Patti
Today I harken back to a time when the discussion of Pro-Ams as a term had yet to really take off, but people had started to get a sense something was going on in this respect that was worth talking about. In this entry, I make a tongue in cheek assertion that mismanaging arts organizations is best left to the professionals.
Tax Status, Cause and Effect
by:
Joe Patti
With tax status and business model discussion being all the rage today, I wanted to point back to a place 7 years ago when the conversation was just starting. Back then I expounded upon a post made by Andrew Taylor regarding associating virtue with tax status.
Cost of Making Things Free
by:
Joe Patti
So I am off on vacation for a couple weeks. Regular readers fear not! I have set up a series of entries to appear according to my usual posting schedule.
Since summer officially started, I thought it appropriate to take a look back at my post about how the Public Theatre manages to offer Shakespeare in the Park for free. Please be sure to read to the comments section in the entry where my misunderstandings were corrected by a reader two years after the post. In my defense, the Shakespeare in the Park website still doesn’t do much to clarify that.
"Though while the author wishes they could buy it in Walmart..." Who is "they"? The kids? The author? Something else?…