Many cultural organizations go through a period where they need specialized assistance or an outside objective perspective if they are to successfully tackle a particular project, challenge, or opportunity. But what should an organization take into consideration in seeking the best and the brightest?

Through the seven patterns explained in this article, Steven Johnson reveals that good ideas want to connect,fuse, recombine, that they need a place where they can mingle and swap, and that ideas rise in crowds.

What sort of individual makes the best team leader? Pepperdine University conducted a survey of crisis management experts, and here are 14 characteristics they identified.

An article from the AACT newsletter, Spotlight, on creating a living history of an organization.

By Prof. Andrew Lewis, University of Wisconsin Extension, The Nonprofit Organizational Assessment Tool can help guide a group discussion about the operations of a nonprofit organization.

Why job descriptions are important--for both paid and non-paid workers--and what specific elements should be included as you create your own.

At some point you may run out of storage room for scenery, props, or costumes and have to go looking for more space. Your budget, however, may not allow for the additional rent, forcing you to look for donations of space or funds with which to pay for the space. But there is a way to turn the process into an opportunity for your company.

A simple worksheet you can use to fill in amounts and create a budget for one production. This is a MS Word document, and can be edited, or converted to an Excel document,