This study examines the self-employment behavior of artists. Using data from the Current Population Survey between 2003 and 2015, we estimate a series of logit models to predict transitions from paid employment to self-employment in the arts. The results show that artists disproportionately freelance and frequently switch in and out of self-employment compared to all other professional workers. We also find that artists exhibit unique entrepreneurial profiles, particularly in terms of their demographic and employment characteristics. In particular, artist workers are considerably more likely to attain self-employment status when living in a city with a high saturation of artist occupations.

This study assesses the impact of a particular type of arts planning investment—an open-air performance venue—on a set of indicators measuring neighborhood change. Using data from the 1990 and 2000 Decennial Censuses and the 2008–2012 American Community Survey, the study analyzes relationships between the presence of an open-air performance venue and indicators of neighborhood change through a propensity score matching and a difference-in-differences model. The results show that, overall, neighborhoods with open-air performance venues are associated with expansion or growth, and less so with changes in resident composition.

This study investigates the effect of a capital facilities project on nonprofit financial vulnerability metrics. The author employs a difference‐in‐differences technique to model the relationship between facilities investments and financial vulnerability indicators using data for a matched‐pair sample of nonprofit organizations that invested and did not invest in a facilities project. Overall the findings suggest that investments in facilities are associated with temporary increases in an organization's net assets ratio and decreases in its surplus ratio after a project is completed, and that the costs associated with facilities projects (for example, debt) place strain on nonprofit finances. The study's findings have implications for the financial management of nonprofit organizations, particularly in regard to the associated costs of capital expansion.

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Keywords: capital campaign , fundraising , artsCAPITAL CAMPAIGNS HAVE THE GOAL of attracting large amounts of funds in short periods of time (Pierpont 2011 ). Thus capital campaigns are qualitatively different from annual drives or the near-constant cultivation of donations that organizations rely on to maintain operational and programmatic activities. As a result of these differences, campaigns can be potentially disruptive to the natural distribution of funds to area nonprofits by disproportionately directing area donations to a single organization.The literature explicitly on capital campaigns is quite limited. Pierpont ( 2011 ) has examined the structure and process of capital campaigns. Woronkowicz ( 2016 ) examines the effects of nonprofit facilities projects on financial vulnerability and finds that, for organizations that build new facilities, capital financing can potentially have adverse impacts on overall financial vulnerability, though it is unclear whether these effects are long term. To date, however, no study has examined the impact of large capital campaigns on the fundraising success of other nonprofit organizations, and studies of how (and whether) the fundraising activity of one nonprofit affects the success of another nonprofit in the same market (Lyons 2003 ;Omura and Forster 2014 ;Twu 2007 ) have produced mixed results.