Nonprofit Finance Fund

Leading for the Future

Leading for the Future: Innovative Support for Artistic Excellence

Leading for the Future, a program of the Nonprofit Finance Fund and funded by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, is an experimental pilot initiative designed to enable a group of artistically outstanding organizations to strengthen their business in a shifting environment. Participants will have access up to $1 million over four or five years to meet a variety of challenges faced by performing and presenting arts organizations in today's world. Their projects will also provide instructive examples and models for other arts organizations to learn from and possibly replicate.

These investments are intended to allow participants to take transformative rather than incremental steps to remain artistically relevant, effective and excellent while ensuring long-term financial viability. These grants are not for the purpose of supporting or adding ongoing programs, but rather to invest in new approaches to doing business that will lead to greater organizational strength.

The selected participants in the Leading for the Future Initiative are:
Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation, New York, NY
Center Theatre Group, Los Angeles, CA
Cunningham Dance Foundation, New York, NY
Jacob's Pillow Dance, Becket, MA
Misnomer Dance Theater, New York, NY
National Black Arts Festival, Atlanta, GA
Ping Chong & Company, New York, NY
SITI Company, New York, NY
Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Chicago, IL
The Wooster Group, New York, NY

Ben Cameron of the Doris Duke Foundation and NFF CEO Clara Miller interviewed on innovating and changing practices in arts organizations. To see the video, plcase click here.





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Last updated: 2010-01-19