Cultural Data Project
For General Operating Support
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Amount$250,000
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Program
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Date Awarded6/15/2017
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Term24 Months
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Type of SupportGeneral Support/Organization
Strategies
Overview
The Cultural Data Project is an online system that enables arts and cultural organizations to enter financial, programmatic, and operational data into a standardized online form. Organizations can then use the data to produce a variety of reports designed to help increase management capacity, identify strengths and challenges, and inform decision making. Organizations can also generate customized reports to be included as part of their applications to participating grantmakers. Most of the major arts and culture grantmakers in California, including the Hewlett Foundation, utilize the Cultural Data Project to inform their decision making. With renewed support, the organization will improve and enhance the system features, provide data fluency training to users, and build regional and national networks.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.culturaldata.org
Address
PO Box 750356, Dallas, TX, 75275, United States
Grants to this Grantee
for support of the California Cultural Data Project
The California Cultural Data Project is a groundbreaking statewide funder collaborative, using technology to collect and disseminate longitudinal, organizational, and financial information about the nonprofit arts and culture sector in California. The California Cultural Data Project, originally operated by Pew Charitable Trusts, but now overseen by the national Cultural Data Project, works to strengthen the sector through more effective financial management, analysis, and reporting by nonprofit arts and culture organizations. Renewed support would provide capital for implementation of a newly adopted strategic plan that calls for an updated technology platform, a fee-based business model, and a deeper engagement of arts and culture organizations.
for support of the California Cultural Data Project
Launched in early 2008, the California Cultural Data Project is a ground-breaking statewide collaborative of more than forty arts funders, providing the first opportunity to collect and disseminate longitudinal, organizational, and financial information about the nonprofit arts and culture sector in California. The California Cultural Data Project, originally operated by Pew Charitable Trusts, but now overseen by the newly-formed Cultural Data Project, works to strengthen the sector by supporting fact-based decision-making through more effective financial management, analysis and reporting by nonprofit arts and culture organizations, and the provision of standardized data for grantmaking and research efforts. This continued grant to the Cultural Data Project for the California arm of the national network would support the ongoing operations of the California Cultural Data Project, including the provision of technical assistance, trainings and help desk support for its participating arts and culture organizations, technology upgrades, and promotion of research for advocacy and policy making.
