Claudia Jacobs: Why Philanthropy Should Steam Ahead and Support the Creative Economy

Claudia Jacobs: Why Philanthropy Should Steam Ahead and Support the Creative Economy: Philanthropies are more and more focused on impact, grantee accountability, metrics and getting results. Sound good? Not so fast. While these evaluation measures have importance, danger could be lurking. For the metric-merry this can have the potential of giving stepchild status to the arts as the less easily measured are most vulnerable to being cut from the roster. Some argue that the increased frenzy with metrics may indeed play a role in stifling innovation.