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October 14, 2009

Milwaukee Ballet Receives One Million Dollar Commitment from Dohmen Family Foundation

The Milwaukee Ballet, now celebrating its 40th season, has received a one million dollar commitment from the Dohmen Family Foundation. The gift, only the Ballet’s second of such scale, will be used to advance objectives within a new strategic plan that includes a needs assessment aimed at identifying and pursuing a new collaborative organizational model. The only other gift of this magnitude was a one million dollar donation by Jack and Joan Stein in 1998 to build a completely new Nutcracker production.

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New Rules Governing Online Fundraising

A recent decision by the National Association of Attorneys General requires nonprofits to register their online fundraising. Check with your state, county and city to see what their fundraising registration requirements are.

Neglecting to file the proper paperwork can result in fines or even revocation of your rights to raise funds.

The National Association of State Charity Officials (NASCO) provides a list of who to contact in each state.

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Americans for the Arts Announces Winners of 2009 National Arts Awards

Philanthropy News Digest
October 6, 2009

Washington, D.C.-based Americans for the Arts has announced the winners of the 2009 National Arts Awards. Presented each year in October to coincide with National Arts and Humanities Month, the awards recognize artists whose work demonstrates extraordinary artistic achievement and individuals who exhibit exemplary national leadership in the arts. This year's recipients include Robert Redford, Salman Rushdie, Ed Ruscha, Sidney Harman, and Anne Finucane, Bank of America.

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NEA Shares New Research Note

The National Endowment for the Arts' Office of Research & Analysis shares its most recent Research Note, Art-Goers in Their Communities: Patterns of Civic and Social Engagement.

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The Dance World Adjusts to the Great Recession

by Barry Johnson
October 12, 2009
The Oregonian

Andrea Snyder, executive director of Dance/USA, was in town last week for the performance of the Aspen Santa Fe Ballet, among other reasons, and gave a talk on the state of dance in America...

She talked about what dance companies, large and small, have always done to survive, how nimble, creative, resourceful and open to collaboration they've always had to be.

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Omaha Theater Ballet to Close After Current Season

by John Pitcher
September 30, 2009
Omaha World-Herald

The metro area is about to lose its only professional dance company. The Rose Theater announced Tuesday that it plans to discontinue its Omaha Theater Ballet and School at the end of the 2009-10 season.

The demise of the company, known for its annual production of The Nutcracker, means neither Nebraska nor Iowa will have a full-time professional dance company. Missouri's Kansas City Ballet will be the closest professional ballet company.

The decision will result in 14 lost jobs — 10 full-time professional dancers and four staffers. The ballet's season ends after the final production of The Rainforest on Feb. 21.

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Dance Magazine 2009 Awards

On November 9, Dance Magazine will honor Allegra Kent, Ohad Naharin, Sara Rudner, and Jason Samuels Smith with the Dance Magazine 2009 Award.

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Dance Troops Line Up to Collect Funds

by Peter Crimmins
October 13, 2009
WHYY News, Philadelphia

At dawn on Monday a line formed outside a building at Spruce and 15th Streets in Philadelphia. They weren't waiting to get Springsteen tickets. They were representatives from local dance companies, waiting for a crack at cash subsidies. Funding was handing out money on a first-come, first-served basis.

The local branch of an organization called Dance/USA gave away $57,000 dollars to help dance companies cover theater rental costs, regardless of the quality of the performance.

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Give By The Click

by Betsy Brill
October 7, 2009
Forbes

In an age of packed schedules and dwindling funds, we may not feel we have the time or money to devote to charitable giving. Fortunately for the thousands of nonprofit organizations struggling to provide critical services to our communities in this challenging economy a new wave of young and innovative social entrepreneurs has created inventive Web applications to accomplish the seemingly impossible: to spur charitable giving during a recession and to allow us to give without even opening our wallets.

These Web applications are experiments in social enterprise — turning profits while creating forums for social change. Unlike the much-publicized charitable giving applications created by Facebook (Causes) and Twitter (TwitCause), these enterprises allow us to give while saving time — and even money — as we multi-task our way through our daily lives. They also have the potential to supply a sustainable and reliable funding source — however nominal — for nonprofits for which every penny truly counts.

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