Nonprofit Sector / Education

State of the Arts: Exploring NFF's 2014 Survey Results

September 10, 2014

Nonprofit Finance Fund (NFF) is pleased to share with you a special report that features the State of the Arts and Culture Sector. Over 5000 organizations completed NFF's 2014 State of the Sector Survey, and this new report focuses closely on what we found among the 919 arts and culture organizations that responded. At the highest level, results show that, while many organizations have developed new ways to engage audiences, visitors and supporters, those strategies have not necessarily led to greater financial resilience.

We invite you to join our staff in a free webinar September 25th from 3:00-4:00 pm EDT as we discuss how this report can be used to create a case for support driven by data. Beyond exploring core findings, themes and trends from the data, the webinar will engage participants on the following topics:

  • What are the systemic barriers to success?
  • What are organizations doing to work around those barriers?
  • What can the field do collectively to break these barriers?
  • What targeted changes can arts supporters make to help the sector thrive?

By widely sharing these results and ideas for what nonprofits and funders can do in response, we can bolster important conversations about how to promote systemic change. We look forward to having a dialogue with you during the webinar, and would like to thank the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation for supporting our efforts to build a conversation with the cultural community around the survey's findings.