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Studio for Southern California History
Chronicles Southern California history from a social and cultural perspective. Recovers overlooked histories of community and strife in the larger Los Angeles area "to foster a sense of place and political entitlement among Southern Californians." Excerpts of oral histories, photographs, letters, postcards, personal correspondence documenting life in the region; maps, rare books, publications out of circulation; multimedia projects and interactive exhibitions. Located in Chinatown, Los Angeles.

MetLife Foundation Creative Aging Program
Support establishment and development of arts education programs for older adults.

Culture for Development (C4D)
Online information portal on the role of culture for development, both as a concept and development tool, with particular focus on museums, theater and cultural heritage in developing countries.

ArtHeart Community Art Centre
Art center in Canada's largest housing project Regent Park, Toronto. Focuses on creative-skills development with hands-on visual arts programs for children, youth and adults year-round and free-of-charge. Studio space, instruction, art supplies and ties with other supportive organizations. Uses art as a vehicle to address child poverty, homelessness, lack of employment and mental-health issues. Founded by Seanna Connell in 1991 as A Home for Creative Opportunity.

Community Music School of Springfield
Springfield, Mass., music school with 23,000 sq. ft. of studios, classrooms, offices and performance areas on four floors of renovated downtown bank building. Music library, classes, preschool, private and group lessons, master classes, concerts, recitals, annual Celebrate Women in Music Concert; community partnership division with programs in early-childhood centers, housing complexes, afterschool programs, alternative high schools and secure treatment facilities for juvenile offenders.

The Gathering for Justice
Civil-rights organization (a.k.a. The Gathering) dedicated to building a national movement to end child incarceration and address social unrest through direct action using nonviolent means. Founded 2005 by artist Harry Belafonte and elders of past civil-rights movements. Regional gatherings, national convention, seminars, workshops.

GALA Choruses
Membership organization serving the GLBT choral movement through workshops, festivals and ongoing networking and administrative support services. Annual festival, grants, concert calendar, residencies, job bank, publications. Based in Pittsburgh, Pa.

WondeRoot
Atlanta-based nonprofit arts organization committed to uniting artists and community to inspire positive social change. WonderRoot Community Arts Center provides production facilities, facilitates arts-based service programs, encourages artists to be proactive in engaging their local communities through service work.

Crossover: How Artists Build Careers across Commercial, Nonprofit and Community Work
Defines "artist"; gives statistics of time artists spend in various sectors; measures income by share vs. time spent; calculates likelihood of artist crossover if money were not an issue; ranks value of artistic development across sectors; makes recommendations for removal of barriers to crossover for artists, educaitonal and training institutions, artists' service organizations, employers and trade associations, nonprofit and community organizations, funders, media, government agencies, arts advocacy groups, sector leaders and managers. Written by Ann Markusen, Sam Gilmore, Amanda Johnson, Titus Levi and Andrea Martinez; published 2006 by Regional and Industrial Economics, Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota.

Defining the Creative Economy: Industry and Occupational Approaches
Reviews conceptual and operational issues in defining the creative sector and its arts and cultural core. Using three pioneering cultural economy studies, each driven by distinctive policy agendas and constituencies, shows how the use of employment data by industry, firm and occupation affects the resulting size and content of the cultural economy. Shows that the Boston metro’s creative economy varies in size from less than 1% of its workforce to 49%, the latter using Richard Florida’s creative class, although most cultural definitions range from 1% to 4%. Explores how policymakers can use a combination of methods to produce a richer characterization of the regional cultural economy. Written by Ann Markusen, Gregory Wassall, Doug DeNatale and Randy Cohen; published in 2008 in Economic Development Quarterly, Vol. 22, No. 1: 24-45. [268]