Making a Joyful Noise: The Potential Role of Music Making in the Well-Being of Young Families
This report from WolfBrown and the Bernard van Leer Foundation combines a comprehensive literature and landscape review that highlights the value, impact and scaling potential of music and sustainable music interventions/programs throughout the world.
Qualitative Impact Framework
The Canada Council for the Arts commissioned Alan Brown, John Carnwath, and James Doeser to create a custom framework to suit the complexity of the Canadian arts ecology.
California Assembly Bill 5 and Worker Misclassification: Their Effects on Nonprofit Arts and Culture Organizations
Victoria Plettner-Saunders worked with San Diego employment attorney Arlene Yang to write a white paper outlining California Assembly Bill 5 and its impact on arts organizations.
Making Music, Promoting Development: The Power of Practice
A chapter by Dennie Palmer Wolf, Steven Holochwost, and Judith Hill Bose in the new volume, Music Learning As Youth Development.
Liberating Academic Mindsets Through Culturally Responsive Arts Integration
A new report on Arts Corps’ Highline Creative Schools Initiative by WolfBrown and MEMconsultants
Teaching Artist Companion to Aesthetic Perspectives
A new publication developed by Animating Democracy, a program of Americans for the Arts, in collaboration with WolfBrown
Lullaby: Being Together, Being Well
Since 2011, Carnegie Hall’s Weill Music Institute has pioneered a lullaby program that pairs skilled musicians with expectant or recent mothers, many of whom are raising young families under stressful conditions: single parenthood, temporary housing, or incarceration. This report by Dennie Palmer Wolf shares early, qualitative findings from 10 lullaby projects in the New York City region.
In Order to Flourish: Musical Pathways, Opportunities to Build and Questions to Ask
This document sketches out the processes that support — and challenge — young musicians seeking to enter the field of classical music, from early childhood through young adult professional lives.
Building Strengths, Buffering Risk: Evaluating the Effects of El Sistema-Inspired Music Programs in the United States
This report on the musical and socioemotional impact of becoming a young musician in an El Sistema-inspired ensemble is the result of a two-year study by the Longy School of Music of Bard College and WolfBrown.
Performing Arts Ticket Buyer Media Usage Study
Results of a Survey of North American Ticket Buyers by WolfBrown and Capacity Interactive.
