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Accessing financial capital to make your organisation more financially resilient
Posted by Margaret Bolton | 11th May 2012Access to financial capital from accumulated reserves, donations, grants, or non-grant finance such as loans or revenue sharing (or quasi-equity) arrangements is a key component of helping arts and cultural organisations become more financially resilient. However, often organisations do not... read more
Tackling overextension and undercapitalisation
Posted by Margaret Bolton | 11th May 2012Most arts and cultural organisations are overextended and undercapitalised or, in other words, they try to do too much with too little too often on their own.
One reason for this, Russell Willis Taylor (President and CEO of National Arts Strategies based in the USA) told us in a... read more
Two case studies of non grant financing
Posted by Margaret Bolton | 11th May 2012Many arts and cultural organisations are resistant to non grant financing such as loans and revenue sharing arrangements (or quasi-equity) because they have little experience of them and/or they have anxieties about the risk of not being able to make repayment. This is understandable,... read more
Good governance for changing times
Posted by Margaret Bolton | 11th May 2012MMM recently filmed Russell Willis Taylor (President and CEO of National Arts Strategies based in the USA) interviewing Sir Vernon Ellis (Chairman of English National Opera and the British Council) about what good governance looks like in these changing times from the... read more
Governance for greater impact
Posted by Margaret Bolton | 11th May 2012MMM recently filmed Russell Willis Taylor (President and CEO of National Arts Strategies based in the USA) and Tesse Akpeki (facilitator and coach) in conversation about how boards in the arts and cultural sector might operate more effectively and achieve greater impact.
... read moreSustainable Ability: the qualities needed by 21st C leaders to face the challenges ahead
Posted by hannahrudman | 13th Apr 2012
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Are Traditional Governance Approaches Helping or Hindering?
Posted by Clare Cooper | 1st Apr 2012Read Diane Ragsdale's provoking keynote for our "Recognising Realities" day on 27th March in... read more
re.volution: The First 150 Days
Posted by Clare Cooper | 8th Mar 2012re.volution is five months old.
By happy coincidence today we celebrate our fifty fith Peer member joining the network, adding to an incredibly diverse and jaw droppingly skilled, distinctive and creative crew of people.
The re.volution team has... read more
Why smart re.volutionaries don’t need to throw stones
Posted by Clare Cooper | 26th Feb 2012In his recent blog on entrepreneurship following the RSA jobs summit at the end of January 2012, Matthew Taylor recognises the vital role that entrepreneurs play but admits:
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