Megan Matthews

Lecturer, Arts Management
Director of Advancement for College of Arts and Communication

Office: Greenhill Center of the Arts, 2036
Phone: 262-472-5564
Email: matthewm@uww.edu

Service Organizations and sites

Americans for the Arts (http://www.artsusa.org): Resources/database, speeches, info on arts in education.

National Endowment for the Arts (http://www.arts.gov/): This is our National Arts funding organization.

Portal Wisconsin (http://www.portalwisconsin.org/): For information on Wisconsin arts and cultural events.

National Service Organizations (http://arts.state.wi.us/static/national.htm)

State and Regional Arts Agencies (http://arts.state.wi.us/static/statearts.htm)

Theater Wisconsin (http://www.theatrewi.org): Theatre Wisconsin is an alliance of non-profit professional theatres in Wisconsin, seeking to promote the growth and stability of its members and to create a greater public awareness, appreciation and support of theatre in Wisconsin.

Wisconsin Arts Board (http://arts.state.wi.us/static/): Wisconsin Arts Board Home page of the Wisconsin Arts Board, our state government arts service and funding agency.

Wisconsin Arts Board News (http://arts.state.wi.us/static/news.htm): This link has arts news from across the state of Wisconsin. You can subscribe to receive a free daily news summary by email, which might prove interesting for you.

Arts Wisconsin (http://www.artswisconsin.org/): Another good resource site!

Wisconsin statewide service organizations (http://arts.state.wi.us/static/saso/main.htm)

Fundraising/Development

Guidestar (http://www.guidestar.org/): Guidestar has collected basic program and financial data for some 850,000 nonprofits that are recognized as having 501(c)(3) status by the Internal Revenue Service.

The Foundation Center (http://www.fdncenter.org): List of funding organizations, grantors

Jobs

Arts Wire Current (http://www.nyfa.org/opportunities): Job listings; mostly in New York, but also across the country.

Marketing

Arts Marketing.org (http://www.artsmarketing.org): This site is made for marketing nonprofit arts!

Technology

Tech Soup (http://www.techsoup.org/index.cfm): A site that covers technology issues for organizations

Managing Nonprofits

Alliance Online (http://www.allianceonline.org/faqs.html): This is their FAQ page. While I didn't follow all their links, it looks to have some good information about nonprofit management.

Nonprofit About.com (http://nonprofit.about.com/): Good website for general nonprofit information

The Management Assistance Program for Nonprofits (http://www.mapfornonprofits.org/): Information on running a not for profit organization.

MAPNP library (http://www.managementhelp.org/) This is an online library of resources. Covers everything from marketing to human resources to facility management to crisis management.

Human Resources

Service leader (http://www.serviceleader.org/new/managers/index.php): Here's a link I found by searching for "volunteer management" in Google. It has links to more information on Volunteer Management.

Boards

Board Cafe (http://www.boardcafe.org/): This is a great site, and has a free newsletter you can subscribe to by email.

Board meetings (http://www.idealist.org/npofaq/17/70.html): One article with suggestions on how to run a board meeting.

Board source (http://www.boardsource.org/): A site for nonprofit board members.

Nonprofit Library (http://www.mapnp.org/library/boards/boards.htm#anchor579041): This has several links to information on Boards

Programming

Nonprofit Library (http://www.mapnp.org/library/prog_mng/prog_mng.htm): Links to Programming and Program Evaluation

Advocacy

Information about Advocacy Advocacy for Public Support of the Arts: A Civic Responsibility (http://www.nasaa-arts.org/nasaanews/advocate_civic.pdf): This PDF file is a piece put out by NASAA (National Association of State Arts Agencies), and has advocacy information geared toward boards.

40 Action Strategies for Building Arts Support (http://www.nasaa-arts.org/publications/advocate_strategies.pdf): This PDF file is put out by NASAA (National Association of State Arts Agencies), and lists strategies for arts advocacy. Good information to store away!