An accompanying web site (www.artiseverywhereinbaltimore.org) contains in-depth analysis of the role arts and culture have played in Baltimore’s economic development over the past decade, and asks provocative questions about where arts and culture could take the city in the years to come.

“Baltimore is positioned to change the quality of American urban life,” write Nancy Haragan and Doreen Bolger. “Its population, diversity, density, and physical size make it an ideal incubator and test ground for new ideas about community in the twenty-first century.”

Visit www.artiseverywhereinbaltimore.org to read more.

This study used CDP data from 158 Philadelphia-area organizations to review the capitalization status, needs, and challenges faced by nonprofit arts and culture organizations in the five-county Philadelphia region; clarify how well these organizations understand these needs; and develop recommendations for how organizations’ financial health and capitalization could be improved.

Through lively and accessible graphics, Philadelphia 2009: The State of the City examines the city’s strengths and weaknesses, its sources for hope and reasons for concern, and highlights key indicators that can be used to gauge changes in the city from this point forward. In addition, it compares Philadelphia to other major cities in terms of its tax burden, crime rate, educational attainment, spending per school student, and poverty rate.

This report is a project of the Theatre Alliance of Greater Philadelphia, with funding, guidance and support from The Pew Center for Arts and Heritage through the Philadelphia Theatre Initiative and additional funding from the National Endowment for the Arts.