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Funding the performing arts in the late 80s and beyond

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Date Issued:
1989
Summary:
Every year, performing arts organizations amass an ever-increasing chasm between ticket-generated income and contractually-obligated outgo. Traditionally, an individual or small group of individuals underwrote the shortfall. Today, however, no individual or small group can afford to underwrite these massive deficits, and organizations must go to the appropriate "capital" markets for funding. These "capital" markets--individuals, foundations, corporations, and governments--now provide well over half of the funding for not-for-profit opera, symphony, ballet, and theatre companies, and the percentage rises each year. For the performing arts to survive, arts administrators must increase the amount of support from present contributors and find new sources of funding at a time when revisions in the IRS Tax Code conspire to discourage giving.
Title: Funding the performing arts in the late 80s and beyond.
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Name(s): Moore, Alan George.
Florida Atlantic University, Degree grantor
Wegman, David, Thesis advisor
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation
Date Issued: 1989
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University
Place of Publication: Boca Raton, Fla.
Physical Form: application/pdf
Extent: 62 p.
Language(s): English
Summary: Every year, performing arts organizations amass an ever-increasing chasm between ticket-generated income and contractually-obligated outgo. Traditionally, an individual or small group of individuals underwrote the shortfall. Today, however, no individual or small group can afford to underwrite these massive deficits, and organizations must go to the appropriate "capital" markets for funding. These "capital" markets--individuals, foundations, corporations, and governments--now provide well over half of the funding for not-for-profit opera, symphony, ballet, and theatre companies, and the percentage rises each year. For the performing arts to survive, arts administrators must increase the amount of support from present contributors and find new sources of funding at a time when revisions in the IRS Tax Code conspire to discourage giving.
Identifier: 14543 (digitool), FADT14543 (IID), fau:11341 (fedora)
Collection: FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection
Note(s): College of Business
Thesis (M.B.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1989.
Subject(s): Performing arts--Finance
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