ABSTRACT
Partly because of changed political ideologies in many Western nations in the twentieth century and partly because of more recent upheavals in the global economic environment, circumstances in today’s world are such that nonprofit arts and cultural organizations everywhere have become increasingly dependent upon fund-raising. Fortunately for them, active arts and cultural managers in the United States are generally very familiar with fund-raising as the primary means for securing their organizations’ operating and project funds. In other parts of the world, however, where government subsidies had long been the norm, fund-raising is a much newer concept. The widening need to raise funds through donations and grants hasn’t made the task of the fund-raiser or grant writer any easier, of course. Indeed, some of the same changes—involving the economy, political shifts, and globalization—that have made fund-raising and grant writing more urgent for arts and cultural organizations have also made these activities more challenging.
