Social Currency

Last week, we published a series of documents stemming from the early results of our Leading For the Future initiative, funded by Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.  You can download the Case for Change Capital in the Arts here and the companion document, Financial Reporting Done Right, right here.  Together they showcase the lessons of the work done so far and provide a road map for foundations and their grantees who might like to put some of the lessons into practice themselves.  The Case for Change Capital in the Arts made Nell Edgington's 10 Great Social Innovation Reads for May and got a thorough airing on Andrew Taylor's Artful Manager blog as well.   

In late April, we gathered the participants in the initiative together in New York City to talk about how their capitalization experiments are going.  We had a chance to interview two of the organizations in greater depth.  Earlier this week, we posted Rebecca Thomas' interview with Charles Dillingham of Center Theatre Group.   Below, you'll find Rodney Christopher's interview with Polly Carl and Martha Lavey of Steppenwolf Theatre Company who share how they've invested their change capital over the last two years.