Social Impact of the Arts Project
University of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia and Camden Cultural Participation

Benchmark Project

SIAP collaborated with Research For Action and Alan Brown/Audience Insight on a study of cultural participation in North Philadelphia and Camden. The study consisted of three complementary research strategies: focus groups conducted by Research for Action, a neighborhood resident survey supervised by Alan Brown, and small-area estimates of cultural participation prepared by SIAP

The Benchmark Project produced the following documents:

Final Report by Mark J. Stern and Susan C. Seifert (June 2005)

Full report Summary

Research for Action reports

“Meanings of Cultural Participation at the Neighborhood Level: A Focus Group Analysis” by Leah Mundell and Gretchen Suess with Eva Gold and Elaine Simon (May 2004)

“Cultural Leaders’ Reflections on Cultural Participation and Preliminary Research” by Elaine Simon and Gretchen Suess (May 2005)

Alan S. Brown and Associates in Association with Audience Insight LLC reports

Report on neighborhood survey (March 2005)

Presentation to cultural leaders (June 2005)

The Benchmark Project was made possible by the generous support of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.