Additional Research Resources

Research Studies (Current/Historical)

http://www.cpanda.org/data/profiles/parc.html
The Performing Arts Research Coalition (PARC) brings together five major national service organizations (NSOs) in the performing arts to improve and coordinate the way performing arts organizations gather information on their sector. (for further analysis, click here )

http://www.americansforthearts.org/

The National Arts Index is a highly distilled annual measure of the health and vitality of arts in the United States by using 76 equal weighted, national-level indicators of arts activity. This report covers an 11-year period, from 1998 to 2008.

“The Search for Shining Eyes” provides a glimpse of the intersection of philanthropy and symphony orchestras by describing the history of the Magic of Music program – a funding initiative of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation (2006). Download: The Search for Shining Eyes

The Wolf Report and Baumol’s Curse: The Economic Health of American Symphony Orchestras in the 1990s and Beyond (pdf)
by Douglas J. Dempster (from Harmony, October 2002) 

pdf Arts Education Partnership,  AEP Wire: Doing Well and Doing Good by Doing Art
This study provides important empirical evidence of the significant role that the arts play in preparing young people for success, both in academia and in life. 

Research Network

http://www.cpanda.org/
CPANDA, the Cultural Policy & the Arts National Data Archive, is the world's first interactive digital archive of policy-relevant data on the arts and cultural policy in the United States. It is a collaborative effort of Princeton University's Firestone Library and the Princeton Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies

http://www.soi.org/harmony/
Harmony is a journal of thoughtful insight and opinion about the complex human dynamics of symphony orchestra organizations