Below are reports, studies, and other publications produced with NEFA's
involvement.
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The Creative Economy: A New Definition - November 2007 This report includes a definition of cultural enterprise and cultural worker categories from widely available U.S. federal data sources; protocol for measuring these categories; data on cultural enterprise employment in each state of New England and data and demographics on cultural workers in each state of New England. Highlights fromThe Creative Economy: A New Definition
Creative Economy Research in New England: A Reexamination - March 2006 This white paper examines the definition of the creative economy developed in the Creative Economy Initiative report: "The Role of Arts and Culture in New England's Economic Competitiveness," released in 2000 by NEFA, Mt. Auburn Associates and The New England Council, as well as subsequent approaches advanced in the U.S. and abroad.
New England's Creative Economy: The State of the Public Cultural Sector - 2005 Update
This study examines the financial status of New England's nonprofit cultural organizations – an important component of the region’s creative economy -- between 2000 and 2002. New methodology developed by NEFA for this report enables us to better define the types of organizations that are included in the nonprofit cultural sector, and provide a more accurate and consistent look at their economic impact. Additionally, an exciting new partnership with the National Center for Charitable Statistics at the Urban Institute has enabled us for the first time to examine New England’s nonprofit cultural sector within a larger regional and national context.
New England's Creative Economy: Employment Update, July 2004 This report provides the most current information on the status of employment in the Creative Economy in New England, containing an update to most of the information found in The New England Council’s report The Creative Economy Initiative: The Role of the Arts and Culture in New England’s Economic Competitiveness (New England Council, June 2000). New England's Creative Economy: The Non-Profit Sector - 2002 Released in February 2005, this study examines the financial status of New England's non-profit organizations between 1996 and 2002. Based on a region-wide direct survey conducted by NEFA in 2004 and IRS data for the year 2002, this report includes estimates of spending, income, net assets, admissions, employment, volunteers, and taxes for the region’s 13,592 cultural organizations.
Arts, Cultural, and Humanities Organizations in the New England Economy,
1996
This report, released in 1997, is derived from direct survey and Internal
Revenue Service data on nonprofit organizations. It provides an analysis
of the contributions they make to New England's economy, taking into consideration
admissions, employment, spending, income, and taxes contributed.
Documenting the Arts: A Practical Handbook for Cultural Organizations Released in May 2005, this handbook provides cultural organizations with practical guidance on developing written and audiovisual documentation of their work or improving the quality of existing efforts. It is intended to help small and medium-sized organizations that often struggle to create a lasting record of their accomplishments or to find the space to examine and reflect upon their accustomed ways of doing business.
The Future of Funding for Dance
From a convening of dance professionals at the White Oak Plantation in
Yulee, Florida in October of 1999, this report highlights topics, themes,
and action plans that emerged in a forum focused on securing financial
health for the field of dance.
