Community Partnerships for Cultural Participation: Concepts, Prospects, and Challenges
COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS FOR CULTURAL PARTICIPATION: CONCEPTS, PROSPECTS, AND CHALLENGES EARLY FINDINGS REPORT The Urban Institute 2100 M Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20037 MAY 1999 THE URBAN INSTITUTE ACKNOWLEDGMENTS This is the report of early findings from the first year of the Urban Institute’s evaluation of the Lila Wallace–Reader’s Digest Fund’s Community Partnerships for Cultural Participation Initiative. Primary Urban Institute staff for this project are Elizabeth Boris, Project Director; Christopher Walker, Principal Investigator; Maria-Rosario Jackson, Research Associate; Stephanie Scott-Melnyk, Research Associate; and Harry Hatry, Evaluation Specialist. The report was written by Christopher Walker, Elizabeth Boris, Maria-Rosario Jackson, and Stephanie Scott-Melnyk, with assistance from Robin Redford. Carol Steinbach edited the draft; technical assistance in producing the report was provided by Jeffrey Shumway, Pho Palmer, Amy Stackpole, Cory Fleming, Megan Weiss, and Diane Hendricks. The authors would like to thank Tom Brock, Holly Sidford, and Michael Moore of the Lila Wallace–Reader’s Digest Fund for their comments and general guidance. We especially wish to thank all the staff at the participating community foundations who arranged site visits and interviews with local informants. Site visits were conducted by Elizabeth Boris, Chris Walker, Maria-Rosario Jackson, Stephanie Scott-Melnyk, Robin Redford, Harry Hatry, David Stevenson, Linda Lampkin, Daryl Dyer, and Marie Gantz. We would also like to thank the members of our Research Advisory Committee, Prudence Brown, University of Chicago; Paul DiMaggio, Princeton University; Lee Friedman, U.C. Berkeley; James Gibson, D.C. Agenda Project; Nicolás Kanellos, Arte Público Press; Steven Lavine, California Institute of the Arts; Mary Regan, North Carolina Arts Council; John Robinson, University of Maryland; Jocelyn Russell, Freedom Theatre; and Margaret Wyszomirski, Ohio State University.
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