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local-profit organization (LPO) research Research conducted towards the formation of an organizational sector defined by the local ownership of technology used by arts organizations.

Group Reading:

  • "The Local Nature of Equity Crowdfunding." U. Pa. J. Bus. L. 24 (2021): 475. Nows, David.
  • "Beacon to the world: A history of Lincoln Center." (2022). Polisi, Joseph W.
  • "Platform capitalism." (2017). Srnicek, Nick.
  • "Against the romance of community." (2002).Joseph, Miranda.
  • "Knowledge LTD: Toward a social logic of the derivative." (2015).Martin, Randy.
  • "The ethical challenge of Big Tech's “disruptive philanthropy”." Global Business Ethics. Routledge, (2024). 68-87. Manning, Paul, Nigel Baker, and Peter Stokes.
  • "Exocapitalism: Economies with Absolutely No Limits." (2025). Polkis, Marek and Alonso Trillo, Roberto.
  • "The archive and the repertoire: Performing cultural memory in the Americas". Duke University Press, (2003). Taylor, Diana.
  • “Nonprofit enterprise in the arts: Studies in mission and constraint.” Oxford University Press, (1987). DiMaggio, Paul J., ed.
  • "A historical overview of philanthropy, voluntary associations, and nonprofit organizations in the United States, 1600–2000.” The nonprofit sector: A research handbook 2 (2006): 32-65. Hall, Peter Dobkin.
  • "Algorithmic intimacy: The data economy of predatory inclusion in Kenya." Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale 30.2 (2022): 120-139. Donovan, Kevin P., and Emma Park.
  • "The Antechamber: Toward a History of Waiting." (2023). Puff, Helmut.
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