{"id":4443,"date":"2018-12-07T04:28:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-07T04:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oafdn.ca\/?p=4443"},"modified":"2022-02-12T04:29:10","modified_gmt":"2022-02-12T04:29:10","slug":"planning-for-economic-uncertainty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oafdn.ca\/fr\/planning-for-economic-uncertainty\/","title":{"rendered":"Planning for Economic Uncertainty"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"4443\" class=\"elementor elementor-4443\" wpc-filter-elementor-widget=\"1\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-1ae8cf1 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"1ae8cf1\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-bc04d81\" data-id=\"bc04d81\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0f7a875 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"0f7a875\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4444 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/oafdn.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/uncertainty-300x289.jpg\" alt=\"Traffic sign that show 2 ways\" width=\"300\" height=\"289\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oafdn.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/uncertainty-300x289.jpg 300w, https:\/\/oafdn.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/uncertainty-12x12.jpg 12w, https:\/\/oafdn.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/uncertainty.jpg 330w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><span class=\"plain_grey\">Much of what we read in the financial press these past few weeks and months speaks of increasing economic volatility and political and market uncertainty.\u00a0Talk is less about will there be an economic recession, but when will we see the next downturn.<br \/><br \/><\/span><\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><span class=\"plain_grey\"><span class=\"blue\"><strong>Long-term Perspective<\/strong><\/span><br \/>At the Ontario Arts Foundation, we continue to hold a long-term perspective and our choice of investment managers and strategies is focused on a portfolio of assets well positioned to grow their businesses over time, are financially strong and able to weather the vagaries of the economy and political climate. That doesn\u2019t mean, we won\u2019t be subject to short term\u00a0\u2018swings\u2019\u00a0in value, but a focus on capital preservation and growing it responsibly can mitigate the day to day and month to month market volatility. Most importantly, for our donors and arts organizations, our investment strategy is structured to continue to deliver a stable source of annual income, revenue arts organizations can count on for the long term.<br \/><br \/><\/span><\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><span class=\"plain_grey\"><span class=\"blue\"><strong>But what should you do as an arts organization in this environment?<\/strong><\/span><br \/>This recent blog post\u00a0<a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.westaf.org\/2018\/12\/what-do-you-do-if-economy-goes-south.html\">Barry<\/a><a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.westaf.org\/2018\/12\/what-do-you-do-if-economy-goes-south.html\">\u2019<\/a><a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.westaf.org\/2018\/12\/what-do-you-do-if-economy-goes-south.html\">s blog\u00a0<\/a><a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.westaf.org\/2018\/12\/what-do-you-do-if-economy-goes-south.html\">\u2013 \u201c<\/a><a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.westaf.org\/2018\/12\/what-do-you-do-if-economy-goes-south.html\">What Do You Do if the Economy Goes South<\/a><a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.westaf.org\/2018\/12\/what-do-you-do-if-economy-goes-south.html\">\u201d<\/a>\u00a0offers suggestions, that make good sense for positioning themselves for financial stability. Arts and culture organizations are often under-capitalized and may not have deep operating reserves, and earned income is often not sufficient to offset changes in other revenue sources such as government grants, performance\/exhibition revenue or donor gifts. The suggestions the article offers are simple and this is a good time for arts managers and their Boards to review their financial strategies.<br \/><\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Much of what we read in the financial press these past few weeks and months speaks of increasing economic volatility and political and market uncertainty.\u00a0Talk is less about will there be an economic recession, but when will we see the next downturn. \u00a0 Long-term PerspectiveAt the Ontario Arts Foundation, we continue to hold a long-term [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"give_campaign_id":0,"nf_dc_page":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oafdn.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oafdn.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oafdn.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oafdn.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oafdn.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oafdn.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4443\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oafdn.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oafdn.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oafdn.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oafdn.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}