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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]

Teatro Pasmi
Community theater company working in Santiago, Chile, since 1994. Multicultural (members from Peru, Chile, Australia). Works for access to the arts and community arts in and with marginalized communities ( prisoners, people with psychiatric problems, women in situations of violence). Work for social change and the respect for human rights in all forms.

Southside Neighborhood Arts Council
Resident-driven arts council in the Southside of Syracuse, N.Y., part of a neighborhood revitalization initiative of the Gifford Foundation. Youth arts classes and mini-grants to community arts projects.

Scholarship in Public: Knowledge Creation and Tenure Policy in the Engaged University
Report proposing that colleges and universities change their tenure and promotion policies that discourage publicly engaged academic work and giving it full standing as scholarship, research or artistic creation, as well as "enlarging the conception of who counts as 'peer' and what counts as 'publication.'” These changes are "part of something bigger: the democratization of knowledge on and off campus. Report is a toolkit for faculty, staff and students to "create enabling settings for doing and reviewing intellectually rigorous public work." Written by Julie Ellison and Timothy K. Eatman; published by Imagining America, 2008.

Corporation for National Community Service
Public-private partnership that engages Americans of all ages in service through three national programs: Senior Corps, AmeriCorps and Learn and Serve America. Grants, awards, scholarships, various kinds of support for volunteering.

Creative Construct: Building for Culture and Creativity
Copoous transcripts, notes and power-points from an international symposium in Ottawa, Ont., Canada, April 28-May 1, 2008, intended to "help transform the way our community planners, educators and elected leaders think about our cultural future." Speakers included representatives of new cultural facilities around the worldinitiatives, including Dave Peebles of Birmingham’s Custard Factory, how a 19th-Century custard factory that became a micro-environment for creative entrepreneurs; Sir Ken Robinson, who contends that we are educating children out of their creativity; and representatives of the Cultural District of Saadiyat Island in Abu Dhabi, now becoming an international cultural destination. Sponsored by the Centre of Expertise on Culture and Communities at Simon Fraser University and the City of Ottawa.

El Puente
Community human-rights institution in north Brooklyn. N.Y., that promotes "leadership for peace and justice through the engagement of members (youth and adult) in the arts, education, scientific research, wellness and environmental action." ,Programs: Center for Arts and Culture, Community Health and Environment Institute, three neighborhood Leadership Centers, El Puente Academy for Peace and Justice (high school).