Sep
06

Do you know about credit karma?

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Credit Karma offers a new way to track your credit score and a unique way to benefit from it. A credit score is one of the most important components of a consumer's financial profile and healthy credit is essential to be able to borrow money to launch a business. At Credit Karma you can get a truly free credit score with no hidden costs … [Read more...]

Aug
18

Our Towns

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Earlier this year, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) awarded grants to 51 creative placemaking projects to support community development through the arts and design via its Our Town program. The latest addition to the NEA website is a full section devoted to the Our Town Communities where you will find photos and more information … [Read more...]

Jul
31

NEA Research on the Value Added By Cultural Industries

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Press Release from The NEA, July 19th, 2011 Cultural industries are economic powerhouses and states have the data to prove it, according to a new analysis from the National Endowment for the Arts.  Drawing on data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis, Arts and the GDP: Value Added by Selected Cultural Industries is a new NEA … [Read more...]

Jul
20

If you are the knight, who is the dragon?

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Long ago, so it seems, I met Barry Moltz for lunch at Wishbone in Chicago. I was on my own hunt and seek mission to figure out who I wanted to be when I grew up. Having sold my businesses and trying to figure out which dragon I wanted to slay next, I asked to buy serial entrepreneur Barry Moltz lunch and found a new hero. Barry is an … [Read more...]

Jul
11

Lighten Your Load Before You Take Off

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Written by Naeem Zafar Every pilot has to make sure the weight-thrust ratio is correct, or else the runway will end before the plane takes off.  Not a good thing if you want to survive the takeoff. If the plane is overloaded, a good captain will refuse to take off.  He knows how long the runway is.  He knows that the aircraft must … [Read more...]

Jun
24

ETA Top 25 Most Read Posts in 2010

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Our 2010 most read posts are interestingly some oldies but goodies. From our top 25, 14 are from 2007 through 2009. Our oldest post from 2007, which also happens to be our #1 post, is about my  journey writing a book. So for all you writers out there, this list just goes to show you that it's important to get your writing our there … [Read more...]

May
29

SNAAP: Tracking The Lives and Careers of Arts Graduates

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SNAAP is a wonderful long overdue project to track the lives and careers of arts graduates. I am so happy to see this work begin. However, with 13,851 respondents this does not (yet) even represent 1% of our sector. All the same, it is a beginning! So kudo's to George Kuh and Sally Galski. This has great long term potential to … [Read more...]

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