The Cultural Data Project “enables participating organizations to track trends and benchmark their progress through powerful reporting tools, empowers researchers and advocates with information to make the case for arts and culture, and equips funders with data to plan and evaluate grant-making activities more effectively.”
The Cultural Data Project (CDP) started in Pennsylvania in 2004 and launched in Maryland in 2007, California in 2008, and in Illinois and New York in 2009. The Pew Charitable Trusts operates the project for each state, helping to ensure comparable, standardized data across regions.
How does the CDP work? Arts and cultural organizations enter financial, programmatic and operational data into a standardized online form and then use the CDP to produce a variety of reports designed to help increase management capacity, identify strengths and challenges and inform decision-making. They can also generate reports to be included as part of the application processes to participating grantmakers.
“The Cultural Data Project will help our organizations turn financial and attendance data into powerful planning and diagnostic tools,” said Anita Walker, Executive Director of the Massachusetts Cultural Council. “This couldn’t have come to Massachusetts at a better time. The Cultural Data Project will help organizations navigate in a difficult economy and ensure their fiscal health.”
The Cultural Data Project (CDP) started in Pennsylvania in 2004 and launched in Maryland in 2007, California in 2008, and in Illinois and New York in 2009. The Pew Charitable Trusts operates the project for each state, helping to ensure comparable, standardized data across regions. The CDP is expanding to other states across the country each year.
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