Business Planning Guidance: Scotland
This one for our Scottish friends. Susan and I are delighted to have worked with Creative Scotland to produce a revised version of our Business Planning Guidance for arts and cultural organisations based or working in Scotland. Do let us have any questions or feedback.
There is no alternative: The future is still self-organised (TINA 3.0)
Although its two years old there is so much here still worthy of our attention.
My approach here is to attempt to be progressive and tactical, because social action and social justice now and in the immediate future can only be realised if we work together, disagreeing with one another but also understanding that the things we have in common and our desires for a better world for everyone mean we must push for lots of little changes now that can be nurtured and grown in the future.
Stephen Pritchard
The Effects of Big Gifts
Interesting new research from the States on the (positive) impact of large, unrestricted donations prompted by MacKenzie Scott’s philanthropy.
We have heard many funders announce their arrival by declaring they’re taking a new, innovative approach to philanthropy: charting a new path and rejecting the old approaches. Almost invariably, it’s not true. What they’re doing may be new to them, but it’s not really new at all. And, almost invariably, the “new” approach doesn’t work out as planned. Effective philanthropy, it turns out, is complicated.But when MacKenzie Scott entered the scene, in the summer of 2020, we thought, OK, this really is new — and unprecedented.’
Cost of living crisis: How to help your employees
A very useful set of resources from CIPD.
How to create an excellent annual report that brings your accounts to life
Succinct and great advice from Sayer Vincent.
…good narrative reporting answers five key questions
- What is the problem we are trying to address?
- What do we do to address it?
- What are we achieving?
- How do we know what we are achieving?
- What are we learning, and how can we improve?’
Gardez L’Eau by Enam Gbewonyo
A beautiful and thought provoking project exploring stories of trade, colonialism, slavery and piracy shown as part of a new annual symposium led by Arts&Heritage on The Art of Remembering.