Survey Measures Minnesota Artists’ Financial, Creative Welfare
6 Questions, 2,430 Answers: The Cost of Culture is a follow-up survey to the McKnight Foundation’s 1996 report Here and Now, which described the state of the arts in Minnesota. This survey, which polled 405 individual dancers, writers, musicians, actors, and visual artists in Minnesota, was…
Looking to Traditional Values to Solve Today’s Social Problems
What Makes Charity Work? A Century of Public and Private Philanthropy
Evaluation Manual for Nonprofit Organizations
Evaluation: An Integrated Framework for Understanding, Guiding, and Improving Policies and Programs
Report on Population Growth and the Environment
People in the Balance: Population and Natural Resources at the Turn of the Millennium, by Robert Engelman, et al., discusses the connections between population growth, environmental degradation, and poverty. Family planning, the authors say, has proved to be a “success story for the environment.”…
Leadership Development in Higher Education
Leadership Reconsidered: Engaging Higher Education in Social Change discusses the importance of leadership-development education at the university level in order to prepare students for life after college and to help them find solutions to pressing social problems. Written by a dozen scholars and…
Guide to American Artists’ Colonies
Artists Communities: A Directory of Residences in the United States that Offer Time and Space for Creativity, Second Edition, edited by Tricia Snell, profiles more than 80 artists’ colonies in the United States, programs that, the editor explains, “free artists from their everyday obligations and…
Legal Guidebook for Nonprofit Organizations
Starting and Managing a Nonprofit Organization: A Legal Guide, Third Edition
Story of McKnight Foundation Leader
Master of Creative Philanthropy: The Story of Russell V. Ewald
Steps to Building and Managing a Public School Foundation
Creating Foundations for American Schools