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by Adrian Ellis.

“The more rapidly society changes, the more out of sync the 501©(3) organization is likely to be.”

In a particularly challenging article printed in the Grantmakers in the Arts Reader, Adrian Ellis focuses on the characteristics of 501©(3) nonprofit organizations and the disadvantages they may face in the context of rapidly changing markets. He probes two areas of shortcoming which he believes are, if unaddressed, “likely to render the nonprofit cultural organization increasingly out of synch with the wider community it is designed to serve, and the wider cultural ecology in which it operates.” More>>