The Illinois Arts Alliance Foundation has either commissioned or managed the following research. All of these are important for the arts community at a local, state, and federal level.

  • Executive Compensation for Illinois Nonprofit Arts Leaders examines compensation and benefits levels for arts leaders throughout Illinois. Commissioned by IAAF and conducted by Diane Grams, Ph.D. of the Cultural Policy Center at the University of Chicago, the study is the first of its kind to include data on small organizations rather than focusing solely on large institutions, thereby providing a more accurate picture of the financial realities arts workers face.

  • Working Together builds bridges between arts organizations and local businesses in Chicago neighborhoods, such as Uptown, South Shore and the South Loop, and in communities such as Rockford, Champaign-Urbana, and Galena, stimulating grassroots support of the arts.
  • Arts Leadership for the 21st Century examines and addresses the impact of the coming generational shift of power in local arts organizations through research and program components such as a Succession Planning Tool Kit which will feature guidelines and checklists for board members, models for strategic plans that include succession planning, examples of succession dos and don'ts, resource lists, and frequently asked questions.
  • Funding the Arts - the primary objective of this research is to gain a better understanding of the important role played by area foundations through an effort that will document the arts giving of grant making organizations over the 10 year period, with substantial emphasis on the years of 1996-2000, due to the quality and consistency of data for the final five years.


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