- Entrepreneurial Activity Abounds in Chicago's Arts Culture, Study Shows
- 03.29.2007
When it set out to track the number of non-profit arts organizations in Chicago, the The Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation didn't expect the sizable numbers it found. Their survey depicts the city and surrounding areas as vibrant community brimming with artistic enterprises. Paul Botts, a Director at the Donnelley Foundation, talks here about some of the surprising results.
Download the entire "Chicago Region Arts Scan" here.
About the The Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation arts scan:
"Approaching the ten-year anniversary of its focus on small arts groups, the foundation’s staff sought but did not find comprehensive current data on the non-profit arts sector in the Chicago region. To be more effective in our own grantmaking, and in the belief that others would find the information useful, we decided to conduct the Arts Scan, a project designed to build a fact-based picture of the non-profit arts community in the greater Chicago region.
"We did not anticipate the extent of what we would find and what that data suggests about the vitality, growth, and future of the region’s arts community. We believe it to be the most comprehensive snapshot of the non-profit arts community in the greater Chicago region ever assembled, and hope that those who share our interest in the vitality of this important sector find it useful."
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