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Updated 6/30/17

Demographic Information | Lectures, Videos & Podcasts | Papers, Studies, Reports & Articles | Journals | Slide Shows | Blogs | Initiatives | Finding Volunteers |Donors & Development | Crowdfunding | Mobile Apps for Fundraising
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Demographic Information

  • U.S. Census Bureau Demographics – 2010
  • Boulder County Demographics – Example of County information.
  • City of Denver Demographics – Example of City Demographics.
  • Kaiser Family Foundation’s Population Distribution by Age

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Lectures, Videos & Podcasts

For more videos, head to the ADS YouTube Channel!

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Audience Development for Indie Artists – Dave Charest & Shoshana Fanizza
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For the ADS Podcast: Click Here!

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Papers, Studies, Reports & Articles

Arts in General

  • Alan S. Brown, Research Commissioned by the Hopkins Center for the Arts, Dartmouth College: Engaging the Next Generation Audiences…(2013)
  • National Endowment for the Arts: How a Nation Engages With Art…(2012)
  • Wallace Foundation – Strategies for Expanding Audiences
  • Wallace Foundation – Building Audiences for the Arts
  • Pew Internet: Arts Organizations and Digital Technologies (2013)
  • Arts Action Research – Audience Development 
  • The Audience Agency (UK) – Navigating the Audience Age Gap
  • The Audience Agency (UK) – Top Tips|Getting Started with Audience Development
  • 10 Tools for Audience Development By Donna Walker-Kuhne, Joseph Papp Public Theater (2001)

Museums & Galleries

  • MuseumNext and Sumo: Social Media Audiences and the Museum (2011)
  • Denver Art Museum: Creativity, Community, and a Dose of the Unexpected: Adventures in Engaging Young Adult Audiences (2011)
  • Audience Development: Putting visitors at the heart of the museum
  • Contemporary Visual Arts Networks – Audience Development Programs

Opera

  • Opera America – The Guiding Principles of Audience Development
  • Social inclusion and audience development at the Royal Opera House: a tourist perspective by Adrian Guachalla , (Department of Travel and Aviation, Buckinghamshire New University, High Wycombe, UK)

Orchestras

  • Audience Development – The Long Haul Model by Aubrey Bergauer
  • New World Symphony Summary Report:2010–2013 Concert Format Assessment
  • Audience Development – League of American Orchestras
  • League of American Orchestras: Orchestra Repertoire Report 2009-2010
  • The International Journal of the Arts in Society – Symphony Audience Development: Analysis of Organizational Culture in the Performing Arts (2010)
  • WKSU – Audience Development Archives
  • Center for Future Audiences – Cleveland Orchestra
  • Audience Development – Texas Symphony Orchestra

Classical & Jazz

  • Technology in the Arts – Online Audience Engagement: Strategies for Developing Jazz and Classical Audiences (2011)

Dance

  • Audience Development Strategies: Cultivating a future for dance audience patronage.
  • Wallace Foundation – Ballet Austin: Expanding Audiences for Unfamiliar Works (2017)

Theatre

  • Audience Development Studies and Stats – Minnesota Theater Alliance
  • Audience Development as a Communal Experience – HowlRound, Akiba Abaka
  • ETC – European study and research results about theatre audience development

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Journals

  • Participations – Journal of Audience & Reception Studies
  • Dance Journal – Audience Development

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Slide Shows

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Blogs

  • Check out our Blog Roll

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Initiatives

  • National Innovation Summit for Arts + Culture – Virtual Summit
  • Boulder County Arts Alliance – Audience Development Initiative
  • SC Arts Commission Programs – Statewide Arts Participation Initiative
  • Arts Memphis Audience Development Initiative

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Finding Volunteers

  • Volunteer Match – post your opportunities and find new volunteers today!
  • Volunteer Connection – Boulder County volunteer services — Example of County Source.
  • CU Volunteer Resource Center — Example of University Source.

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 Donors & Development

  • Network for Good – www.networkforgood.org
  • JustGive – www.justgive.org
  • Convio – www.convio.com
  • Causes – www.causes.com
  • AuctionPay – www.auctionpay.com
  • ReadySetAuction – www.readysetauction.com
  • Foundation Center – cnl.foundationcenter.org
  • GuideStar – www.guidestar.org
  • Access Philanthropy – www.accessphilanthropy.com
  • The Chronicle of Philanthropy – www.philanthropy.com
  • StayClassy – www.stayclassy.org
  • FirstGiving – www.firstgiving.com
  • Crowdrise – www.crowdrise.com
  • DoJiggy – www.dojiggy.com

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Crowdfunding

  • Kickstarter – www.kickstarter.com
  • RocketHub – www.rockethub.com
  • Razoo – www.razoo.com
  • Indiegogo – www.indiegogo.com
  • GoFundMe – www.gofundme.com
  • CrowdTilt – www.crowdtilt.com
  • GoGetFunding – www.gogetfunding.com

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Mobile Apps for Fundraising

  • MobileCause – www.mobilecause.com
  • MobileCommons – www.mobilecommons.com
  • Connect2Give – www.connect2give.com
  • PocketCause  – www.pocketcause.org
  • GoFundMe Mobile App

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Databases Combined With Ticketing

  • ArtsPeople – www.arts-people.com
  • Patron Manager – www.PatronTechnology.com
  • OvationTix – www.ovationtix.com

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