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“An Architecture of Value”
“Arts Reach’s Tenth Anniversary Looks Back at the Last Decade and Peeks into the Next” including comments
“Email Marketing In Practice: Survey Results Show an Evolution of the Arts Marketing Mix”
“How Americans Relate to Classical Music and Their Local Orchestras”
“Initiators and Responders: Leveraging Social Context to Build Attendance”
“Local Arts Agencies: Creating Opportunity in Challenging Times”
“Orchestras and Classical Music Listeners”
“Symphonies Adrift”
“To the Rescue: Can Ailing Arts Organizations Turn Around?”
“Will Venture Philanthropy Revolutionize the Arts?”
2014 National Arts Marketing Project Conference
2016 Chorus America Annual Conference
2016 League of American Orchestras National Conference
2016 Theatre Communications Group National Conference
2017 League of American Orchestras Conference
2017 National Arts Marketing Project Conference
2017 Theatre Communications Group National Conference
2018 Arts BC Conference
2018 League of American Orchestras Conference
2019 Arts Education Partnership Annual Convening
2019 League of American National Orchestras Conference
2019 National Arts Marketing Project Conference
21st Century Music Director: A Symposium
40th Annual Leo Camp Memorial Lecture : “The Nightingale’s Sonata”
A Candid Conversation with Funders
A Fresh Look at Arts Participation
A message from Sanuja Goonetilleke in the Cambridge Office of WolfBrown
A National Collaborative Evaluation of El Sistema-inspired Music Education
A Sector in Peril: Philanthropy’s Role in Responding to COVID-19
A Study of College Student Preferences towards Music and the Performing Arts
a2ru National Conference
Abilene, Texas
Accademia Teatro alla Scala
Accademia Teatro alla Scala, Milan
Accademia Teatro alla Scala, Milan, Italy
Act Now for Young Artists: Save All the Cultural Future We Will Ever Have
Advancing Legacy through Change
Alan Brown
Alan Brown Speaks About Audience Feedback and Artistic Reflection on the New Podcast “Theory of Creativity”
Alan Kline
Alicia Arroyo
All The World’s a Stage
Alliance For American Quilts
Alliance for Young Artists & Writers
Allied Arts of Chattanooga
America’s Promise: The Alliance for Youth
American Association of Museums
American Association of Museums (2)
American Ballet Theatre
American Composers Forum
American Evaluation Association Conference 2016
American Folk Art Museum
American Philological Association
Americans for the Arts
Americans for the Arts 2015 Annual Convention
Americans for the Arts Releases New Publication Featuring Dennie Palmer Wolf
Anaheim, California
And the Band Stopped Playing: The Rise and Fall of the San Jose Symphony
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
ANDRUS
Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts
Announcing a new Research Fellow at WolfBrown/Opportunity Lab
APAP|NYC 2015
Appel Farm Arts and Music Center
Architectural League of New York
Arizona Science Center, Phoenix
Articles and Essays
Arts & Business Council of Greater Boston
Arts & Science Council, Charlotte
Arts and Culture Policy Discussion at Bethany Mission Gallery
Arts Council of Fort Worth, Texas
Arts Council of Greater New Haven
Arts Council of Silicon Valley
Arts Education Model Development and Dissemination Conference
Arts Education Research & Program Development
Arts Forward Fund
Arts Partnership of Greater Spartanburg
Arts Rising
Arts Services Coalition, Boston, MA
ArtServe Michigan
Aspen Institute
Assessing the Audience Impact of Choral Music Concerts
Assessing the Intrinsic Impacts of a Live Performance
Association of Arts Administration Educators Conference
Association of Performing Arts Presenters
Association of Performing Arts Presenters (APAP|NYC 2017)
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra
Audience & Visitor Research
Audience Research Collaborative
Audiences Norway Conference
Audiences Norway Conference, Stavanger, Norway
Audiences Sweden
Author Discussion: The Nightingale’s Sonata
Author Talk: Tom Wolf, The Nightingale’s Sonata
Ballet Internationale
Bard College
Barr Foundation and Klarman Family Foundation
Befriending Your Donors: Interview with Thomas Wolf
Bellevue, Washington
Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation
Big Thought
Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company
BIOGRAPHIES OF THOSE WHO WILL WORK ON THE MOSAIC EVALUATION
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Bonobo Conservation Initiative
Books and Reports
Boston Ballet
Boston Chamber Music Society
Boston Public Library – Commonwealth Salon Room
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Bowdoin International Music Festival (BIMF)
BRIC
Bricks, Mortar, and Planning
British Museum
Broadening Our View of Nonprofit Capitalization
Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy
Brooklyn Museum of Art
Brooklyn Public Library
Broward Cultural Affairs
Building Bridges grantee meeting, Washington DC
Building Capacity for Audience Research
Building Creative Capital
Building Demand for the Arts
Building Demand for the Arts: Evaluation Webinar
Building Our Creative Capital Through the Arts
Building Strengths, Buffering Risk: Evaluating the Effects of El-Sistema-Inspired Music Programs in the United States
Bushnell
California Assembly Bill 5 and Worker Misclassification: Their Effects on Nonprofit Arts and Culture Organizations
California Center for the Arts, Escondido
Capacity Building
Capital Campaign Feasibility Planning
Capturing and Conveying Impact
Carnegie Hall
Carnegie Hall Lullaby Project
Carnegie Hall’s Lullaby Conference
Caroline Marshall
Cary, North Carolina
Center for Progressive Reform
Chamber Music America
Chamber Music America Conference
Charles E. Culpeper Foundation
Chesapeake Region 2012 Coalition
Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs
Chicago History Museum
Children’s Defense Fund
Chorus America
Chorus America Forum hosted by Yale University
Chorus America to Release Major Study of Audiences for Choral Concerts
City Lore
City of Eugene, Oregon
City of Saint Cloud, Minnesota
Classical Music Consumer Segmentation Study
Classics for Kids Foundation
Cleveland Community Partnership for Arts and Culture
Cleveland Institute of Art
Clients
College of the Atlantic
Columbia Festival of the Arts
Columbus Museum of Art
Community Cultural Planning
Community Foundation of Grand Forks, East Grand Forks and Region
Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham
Community Foundations and Cultural Development
Community Musicworks
Community MusicWorks Evaluation
Community Planning: The New Context at Play
Concord Community Music School
Concord Conservatory of Music
Conference for Community Arts Education
Conferencia de Marketing de las Artes y Desarrollo de Audiencias, Madrid, Spain
Conferencia de Marketing de las Artes, Madrid, Spain
Connecticut Commission on the Culture and Tourism
Cosmopolitan Club, Philadelphia
Covid-19 Audience Outlook Monitor
Covid-19 Audience Outlook Monitor – Update
Create Justice
Creative Sonoma Forum
Creative Summit
Creative Summit Team Presentation Videos
Creativity in Programming
Cultural Arts Council of Houston/Harris County, Texas
Cultural Connections: Planning for Financial Sustainability
Cultural Engagement Research
Cultural Programming: Can Anything Appeal to Anyone?
Cultural Trusts: Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Lump Sum
Dallas Division of Cultural Affairs
Dance/USA
David and Lucile Packard Foundation
Dealing with Crisis: Achieving Stability in Difficult Times
December Issue of On Our Minds Features Alan Brown, Steven Holochwost, and Megan Friel
Dennie Palmer Wolf honored by National Guild for Community Arts Education
Dennie Palmer Wolf is Honored by the Association of Teaching Artists
Deserving of Trust: Helping A Nonprofit Board Toward Good Governance
Detroit Symphony Orchestra Webcast Evaluation
Diversity and TYA: Action Steps for a Bright Future
Donor Diversification: The Challenge of Single-Source Funding
Donor Motivations Study
Donors
Doris Duke Charitable Foundation
Dr. Dennie Palmer Wolf
Dr. Steven John Holochwost
Dr. Thomas Wolf
DreamYard
Drexel University Residency
Durham Arts Council
East Grand Forks and Region
East Tennessee Foundation
EdVestors
Effective Leadership for Nonprofit Organizations
El Sistema-inspired orchestras
Elizabeth Stuk
Emerson College
Emerson College, Boston Celebrity Series, and Boston Foundation
Employee Assistance Research Foundation
Enhanced Facilitation and Field Summits
Erin Gold
Evaluating the Detroit Symphony’s webcasts into classrooms
Evaluation 2018: Speaking Truth to Power
Evaluation as More than a Report Card
Evaluations at Mid-Life
Event for Tom Wolf’s New Book, The Nightingale’s Sonata
Executive Functions: Formative Versus Reflective Measurement
Expertise
Face-to-Face Conference
Facility Planning
Financial Analysis & Business Planning
Findlay Area Arts Council
Florida West Coast Symphony
Flynn Theater
Ford Foundation
Fort Wayne Museum of Art
Forum of Regional Associations of Grantmakers
Founders and Succession: Creating Effective Transitions
Four Keys to Cultivating a Donor
Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute
From Design to Designation: Digging into Assessment and Evaluation
From the Top
Fund-raising Assessment and Support
Fund-raising Implementation and Support
General Electric Fund
Georgia O’Keeffe Museum
Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation
Getting In On the Act
Globus Interaktiv 2018
Good Schools PA
Grantmakers in the Arts
Grants Management for Funders
Greater Hancock County
Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance
HandMade in America
Happy Holidays from WolfBrown
Haverford College
Headline Findings from the U.S. National El Sistema Study
Helena Presents
Henry Clapp
Herding Cats and Cougars
Hero 1
Hero 10
Hero 11
Hero 12
Hero 13
Hero 14
Hero 15
Hero 16
Hero 17
Hero 18
Hero 19
Hero 2
Hero 20
Hero 21
Hero 22
Hero 23
Hero 3
Hero 4
Hero 5
Hero 6
Hero 7
Hero 8
Hero 9
Home is Where? Regionalism, Hometowns and Culture
Home Left
Home Right
How to Connect with Donors and Double the Money You Raise
Howard Gilman Foundation
Human Capital Strategy/HR Support
Hunterdon Museum of Art
Illinois Arts Council
Impact
Impact Assessment
Impact Stories
Impact Stories – 3 Video Productions
Impact Study
Indiana Arts Commission
Ingenuity Panel Discussion
Ingrid Lembach
Insights Right
Institute of Museum and Library Services
Insuring the Quality of Elementary School Arts Education
International Network for Audience Research in the Performing Arts (iNARPA)
International Quilt Study Center
International Teaching Artist Conference
Internews Network
Investing In the Long View
Irving Arts Center
Is Sustainability Sustainable?
Jacksonville Symphony
Jacob Burns Film Center
Jane Culbert
Japanese American National Museum
Jason Tran
Jazz at Lincoln Center
Jazz at Lincoln Center (2)
Jazz Audiences Initiative
JazzHub Convening, Pittsburgh
JEHT Foundation
Jennifer Novak-Leonard
Jersey City Museum
Joe Kluger
John Carnwath
John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
Johnson County Community College
Judge David L. Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law
Junebug Productions
Kansas City Friends of Chamber Music
Kansas City Symphony – Concert Companion
Kerry O’Grady
Knoxville, Tennessee
Korea Entertainment Technology Institute
Kyle Marinshaw
La Music Center
Lafayette and West Lafayette, Indiana
Lea Wolf, MSW & Dr. Thomas Wolf
Lea Wolf, MSW & Dr. Thomas Wolf (2)
League of American Orchestras
League of American Orchestras Keynote
Lecture on “Leadership and Management”
Leveraging Investments in Creativity
Liberating Academic Mindsets Through Culturally Responsive Arts Integration
Lincoln Center Education-Expert Panel
Liverpool Arts Regeneration Consortium
Long Beach, California
Long Wharf Theatre
Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department
Los Angeles Opera
Lullaby: Being Together, Being Well (2)
Maine Arts Commission
Major University Presenters Consortium
Making a Joyful Noise: The Potential Role of Music Making in the Well-Being of Young Families
Making Music, Promoting Development: The Power of Practice
Making Sense of Audience Engagement
Making Sense of the Numbers: Communicating Financial Information Effectively
Manager, Audience Research Program
Managing a Nonprofit Organization: Updated 21st Century Edition (2012)
March Issue of On Our Minds Features Dennie Palmer Wolf, Thomas Wolf, and Victoria Plettner-Saunders
Marcus Foundation (MIDEA)
Market Quality & Competitive Analysis
Marketing Consulting
Massachusetts Cultural Council
May the Songs I Have Written Speak for Me
McConnell Foundation
Measuring Audience Engagement – Emerging Theory and Methods
Measuring Cultural Engagement amid Confounding Variables: A Reality Check
Megan Bander
Merger, Consolidation and Reorganization Planning
Mergers and Strategic Alliances
Mertz Gilmore Foundation
Mesa, Arizona
Metropolitan Nashville Arts Commission
Mexican Heritage Cultural Center
Meyer Foundation
Miami Art Museum
Mid-America Arts Alliance/Kansas Arts Commission
Middletown, Connecticut Commission on the Arts
Missouri Arts Council
Mobile Arts Council
Montalvo
Monterey Jazz Festival
More Than Measuring: Program Evaluation as an Opportunity to Build the Capacity of Communities
More Than the Sum of its Parts: Collaboration & Sustainability in Arts Education
Morgan Library and Museum
MUP intro
MUP The Mellon Papers
MUP The Mellon Papers intro
MUP Value & Impact Study
Murder Victims’ Families for Reconciliation
Museum Loan Network
Museum of Arts and Design
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Music & Healthcare
Music and Arts Center for Humanity
Music and Executive Functions
Music Performance Repertoire
National Arts Marketing Project Conference 2015
National Association for Olmsted Parks
National Association of Schools of Music
National Center for the Preservation of Democracy
National Committee to Prevent Child Abuse
National Endowment for the Arts
National Endowment for the Arts Advancement Program
National Endowment for the Arts, Washington, DC
National Guild for Community Arts Education
National Meeting of the American Evaluation Association
National Public Radio
National September 11 Memorial and Museum
National Steinbeck Center
National Take a Stand Festival 2017
Navigating Troubled Waters
NEA Releases new WolfBrown monograph
Negaunee Music Institute at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra
New England Conservatory
New England Foundation for the Arts
New Jersey Network
New Jersey State Council on the Arts
New Jersey Symphony Orchestra
New Jersey Symphony Orchestra CHAMPS
New Publication in Arts Evaluation and Assessment
New Special Issue of On Our Minds Reflects on Leadership Retreats
New Victory Theatre Anniversary Celebration
New World Symphony WALLCAST Research
New York City Center
New York Community Trust/Joyce Mertz Gilmore Foundation
News
News and Announcements
Nonprofit Finance Fund
North Carolina Museum of Art Annual Expo
North Shore Music Theatre
Northeast Historic Film
Northern Clay Center
Northwestern University
November Issue of On Our Minds Features John Carnwath, Dr. Thomas Wolf, and Jane Culbert
Now Available: A Collaboration Workbook, Commissioned by Heart of Brooklyn – A Cultural Partnership
NYU Arts Professions Panel
OASIS—Open Accessible Space Information System
Of questions and canyons
Omaha Symphony Orchestra
One Theatre World 2017
Opera America Conference – Plenary Session
Opera Delaware Guild
Orchestra Leadership Academy
Organizational Assessment
Our Voices Count: The Potential Impact of Strength-Based Music Programs in Juvenile Justice Settings
PAC Australia’s 33rd Conference and National Performing Arts Exchange
Pacific Symphony
Palm Beach County Cultural Council
Pathways for Creative Development
Pathways in Musical Learning
Patricia Weber
Penn State Public Broadcasting
People
People For the American Way
Performing Arts Center Consortium, Marketing Directors
Performing Arts Ticket Buyer-Media Usage Study
Peter Kiewit Foundation, Omaha, NE
Philadelphia Cultural Engagement Index
Philadelphia Orchestra
Philip Morris Companies, Inc.
Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre
Pittsburgh Cultural Trust
Planning
Play On, Philly!
Plus Ca Change: What’s New About Boards?
Portland Arts & Lectures
Presenting Performances: A Basic Handbook for the 21st Century
Program Design & Evaluation
Project STEP
Prospect Park Alliance
Public Corporation for the Arts
Public Speaking & Professional Development Opportunities
Public Value Audits
Qualitative Impact Framework
Quality Review Panel Binder
Rapides Foundation
Ready?
Rebecca Ratzkin
Reframing El Sistéma
Reggio Emilia, Italy
Region 2020
Regional Arts and Creativity Council
Research & Evaluation
Research for Action
Resource Development
Resource Development: Taking an Integrated Approach
Richmond Region Cultural Action Plan
Richmond, Virginia
Right to Vote
Riverside Theatre
Rockefeller Brothers Fund
Ruth Eckerd Hall
Saint Louis Art Museum
Saint Louis Zoo
Saint Louis Zoo-Museum District
San Clemente
San Diego Commission on Arts & Culture
San Francisco Bay Area consortium of arts development professionals
San Jose Historical Museum
San Jose Office of Cultural Affairs
Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History: Museum Camp 2014
Sanuja Goonetilleke
Sara Billmann
Saratoga Performing Arts Center
Scenario Planning Versus Paradigm Planning in a Crisis
Schepens Eye Research Institute
Scottsdale Cultural Council
Sean Fenton
Sean Fenton joins WolfBrown as Manager of Intrinsic Impact program
Segmentation Study
Seminario Audiencias, Centro Cultural
September 11th and Beyond: A Compilation
Services
SFJAZZ
Sharing Tables with Strangers
Shelburne Museum
Silver Linings: A Reimagined Revival by Victoria Plettner-Saunders
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Smithsonian Institution
Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting
Sounding Board
South Carolina Aquarium
South Coast Repertory Theatre
Special Interest Topics
Staying Afloat: Three Windows on Nonprofit Sustainability
Steppenwolf Theatre Company
Steven Holochwost Presents at the 2019 Arts Education Partnership Annual Convening
Strategic Planning
Strathmore Hall
Student Engagement in Performing Arts
Subscribe
Supplementary Research: The Mellon Papers
Sustainability Planning
Tacoma, Washington
Taking Note: Parsing Rigor in Arts Education Studies
Teaching Artist Companion to Aesthetic Perspectives
Teaching Artists as Essential Workers: Respect, Collaboration, and Heft
Tessitura Learning & Community Conference
Tessitura Learning & Community Conference 2015
Tessitura Learning & Community Conference 2016
Tessitura Network and WolfBrown Announce New Partnership on Intrinsic Impact Dashboard for Tessitura Users
The 21st Century Learner: Cultural Institutions as Content Providers
The 21st Century Music Director: A Symposium
The Anxiety of Age
The Board’s Role in Donor Cultivation
The Canada Council for the Arts Releases a New Qualitative Impact Framework Designed by WolfBrown and James Doeser
The Circus Barn (Circus Smirkus)
The Cleveland Foundation
The Contours of Inclusion: Frameworks and Tools for Evaluating Arts in Education
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting
The Farnsworth Art Museum
The Folger Shakespeare Library
The Fund for Folk Culture
The Globe Theatres
The Great Chicago Fire Festival
The Harry Ransom Center
The Helen F. Whitaker Fund
The International Campaign for Tibet
The Jubilee School
The Kennedy Center
The Long Center for the Performing Arts
The North Arkansas Symphony Orchestra
The Pew Charitable Trusts
The San Francisco Foundation and East Bay Community Foundation
The San Francisco Symphony
The Search for Shining Eyes: Audiences, Leadership and Change in the Symphony Orchestra Field
The Sentencing Project
The Socioemotional Benefits of the Arts: A New Mandate for Arts Education
The Value in Evaluation: Finding Approaches that Work
The Values Study: Rediscovering the Meaning and Value of Arts Participation
The Wallace Foundation
The Wolfsonian-FIU
Theatre Communications Group – Trend Workshop
Theatre Communications Group National Conference
Thomas Wolf Releases His Newest Book, The Nightingale’s Sonata
Ticket-Buyers & Demand
Timely Opportunities: the Long and the Deep
Tom Wolf Develops New On-Line Courses For Philanthropy University
Tom Wolf’s Book Presentation at the Dallas Symphony Orchestra
Tools of the Trade: Prospect Research Updated
Turtle Bay Exploration Park
TYA Today Publishes a New Article on WolfBrown’s Research with The New Victory Theater
TYA/USA Virtual Festival & Conference
Understanding the Value and Impact of Cultural Experiences
United Way of Central Indiana/Julian Center
University Musical Society
Upcoming EU Conference
Upcoming Events
Upcoming Publication in Journal of Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts
Values
Venture Philantropy: Evolving from Theory into Practice
Vermont Institute of Natural Science
Vermont Technical College
Victoria Plettner-Saunders
Victoria Symphony Stakeholder Audit
Video Creative Summit Team 1
Video Creative Summit Team 2
Video Creative Summit Team 3
Video Creative Summit Team 4
Video Creative Summit Team 5
Video Creative Summit Team 6
Video Creative Summit Team 7
Video Creative Summit Team 8
Video The Artist
Video The Artist-In-Residence and Student
Video The Patron
Vizcaya Museum and Gardens
VocalEssence
Wallace Foundation Learning Community, Chicago
We Are Each Other’s Magnitude and Bond: An Evaluation of Community MusicWorks’ Extending Our Reach Initiative
Webinar: Counternarratives Rethinking Teaching Artistry
Webinar: Teaching Artist Companion Guide
Wells College
Welsh National Opera
Westchester (NY) Arts Council
Western Alliance of Arts Administrators
WGBH Education Foundation
What is Artistic Vibrancy?
Why Making Music Matters
Wichita Art Museum
Winterthur Museum, Garden, and Library
Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation
Winthrop Rockefeller Institute
WolfBrown and the Bernard van Leer Foundation Publish a New Literature and Landscape Review: Making Joyful Noise
WolfBrown and the Global Leaders Program Were Selected as Innovators for the International Teaching Artist Collaborative (ITAC)
WolfBrown Announces the COVID-19 Audience Outlook Monitor
WolfBrown’s Research is Featured in the NEA and TYA/USA’s Newly Released Report on Theater for Young Audiences
World Arts West
WXPN Public Radio
YAMsession 2018
Young Audiences, Inc.
Youth Arts Datathon
Youth Service America
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