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From a recent Huffington Post article<\/a> by the Kennedy Center president, Michael Kaiser:<\/p>\n

There are organizations with structural deficits, to be sure. But they are few and far between. Many more simply need to rethink the strategies they have developed, the art they are producing, the strength of their marketing efforts, the composition of their boards and the way they welcome new donors to the institution.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From a recent Huffington Post article by the Kennedy Center president, Michael Kaiser: There are organizations with structural deficits, to be sure. But they are few and far between. Many more simply need to rethink the strategies they have developed, the art they are producing, the strength of their marketing efforts, the composition of their […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":303,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1783,2],"tags":[3463,3462,3461],"class_list":["post-12998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-administration-the-orchestra-world-music","category-the-orchestra-world","tag-arts","tag-non-profit","tag-structural-deficit"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-3nE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3298,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2009\/10\/28\/opera-vs-symphony\/","url_meta":{"origin":12998,"position":0},"title":"opera vs. symphony","author":"Charles Noble","date":"October 28, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Sam Bergman over at the Minnesota Orchestra has a great post about the apparent double standard between opera companies and symphony orchestras.\u00a0 In brief: orchestras are constantly being berated for having structural deficits and are forced to produce more and more for-profit-like business models, while opera companies lose tremendous amounts\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "music"","block_context":{"text":"music","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/category\/music\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":914,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2008\/04\/08\/more-flanagan-report-analysis\/","url_meta":{"origin":12998,"position":1},"title":"more flanagan report analysis","author":"Charles Noble","date":"April 8, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Brian Rood, member of the Kansas City Symphony and ICSOM President, has written an interesting and accessible analysis of the methodology, history and findings of the by now practically infamous Flanagan Report. 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