2009-11-07
Cultural Data Project as a powerful online management tool
The Cultural Data Project (CDP) is a powerful, online management tool designed to strengthen arts and cultural organizations, advance learning and exchange throughout the cultural sector, and help funders more effectively plan for and evaluate their individual and collective grantmaking activities. The CDP allows users to track their institutions financial and programmatic performance over time and to benchmark themselves against comparable organizations.
The CDP impacts the cultural sector in the following ways:
* Arts and cultural organizations improve their financial and operational capacity to serve their constituents more effectively.
* Fact-based, standardized information advances learning and exchange among the cultural sector, policy makers and civic leaders.
* Funders plan for and evaluate their individual and collective grantmaking activities more efficiently.
The CDPs data have been used in several major research reports, including Arts and Economic Prosperity III, a report by Americans for the Arts, and Portfolio, a report by the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance with analysis by the Economy League of Greater Philadelphia. The data also provide reliable, longitudinal information for cultural planning, economic development, sector-wide needs assessments and more.
The Cultural Data Project was developed by a partnership of Pennsylvania organizations including the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance, Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council, the Heinz Endowments, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, The Pew Charitable Trusts, the Pittsburgh Foundation and the William Penn Foundation. These partners continue to govern the CDP, with Pew housing and administering it on a day-to-day basis. It has recently expanded to California, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York and Ohio.
For more information, visit the Cultural Data Project's Web site: http://www.culturaldata.org/
* Arts and cultural organizations improve their financial and operational capacity to serve their constituents more effectively.
* Fact-based, standardized information advances learning and exchange among the cultural sector, policy makers and civic leaders.
* Funders plan for and evaluate their individual and collective grantmaking activities more efficiently.
The CDPs data have been used in several major research reports, including Arts and Economic Prosperity III, a report by Americans for the Arts, and Portfolio, a report by the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance with analysis by the Economy League of Greater Philadelphia. The data also provide reliable, longitudinal information for cultural planning, economic development, sector-wide needs assessments and more.
The Cultural Data Project was developed by a partnership of Pennsylvania organizations including the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance, Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council, the Heinz Endowments, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, The Pew Charitable Trusts, the Pittsburgh Foundation and the William Penn Foundation. These partners continue to govern the CDP, with Pew housing and administering it on a day-to-day basis. It has recently expanded to California, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York and Ohio.
For more information, visit the Cultural Data Project's Web site: http://www.culturaldata.org/
Cultural Data Project, Philadelphia (USA)
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