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• to encourage more thinking on the subject.
• Any work that proceeds from a self-understanding of responsibility in the community can support effective engagement.
• A potential default statement is “improve lives through the arts.”
• That mission, one that is socially valuable but that cannot “pass” the market test (where earned income exceeds expenses), is the reason 501 (c)(3) corporations were established.
• One option would be to adopt a greater role—not an exclusive role—as supporter of opportunities for citizen artists to create and perform.