For questions about the study, please e-mail or call one of the principal investigators: Carlos Manjarrez at (202) 261-5821 or Carole Rosenstein at (716) 645-2437 x1468.

Key Research Personnel

Carlos A. Manjarrez, Co-Principal Investigator, Urban Institute. Carlos A. Manjarrez is a Research Associate in the Urban Institute's Metropolitan Housing and Communities Center. His research focuses on the role cultural institutions play in everyday life and the availability and use of public and private services in resource poor communities. Mr. Manjarrez was the Principal Investigator and lead author for a national study examining the local economic development impact of public libraries entitled Making Cities Stronger, which was funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Previous work includes a study of institutional partnerships between Museums, Libraries and Public Broadcasters, which was funded by the Institute of Museums and Library Services, through the Urban Libraries Council. In other community development work at the Urban Institute, Mr. Manjarrez has authored evaluation guides for health service agencies, conducted studies on the barriers to medical services in low income neighborhoods, and provided a wide range of technical support to local agencies on the use of administrative data for strategic planning and advocacy. In addition to the Museum Public Finance study, Mr. Manjarrez is working on a longitudinal survey of neighborhood change in 10 US cities for the Annie E. Casey Foundation and a three year study of neighborhood services for youth in the Washington, DC area, which is sponsored by the World Bank Group. Before joining the Institute, Mr. Manjarrez worked for the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and the American Bar Foundation in Chicago, IL. He was a graduate research fellow at the Joint Center for Poverty Research, Chicago, IL and is a student of urban planning and public health at the University of Maryland. Mr. Manjarrez has been with the Urban Institute since 1998.

Erica Pastore, Research Assistant, SUNY Buffalo. Erica Pastore is a research assistant for the Arts Management Program at SUNY Buffalo. She has recently been working on archival research and the use of digital archival technologies with the University at Buffalo Anderson Gallery, as well as several private artist foundations in both the United States and Europe. She is Guest Editor of A Masters of Business Art?, Volume 3 of the Arts Management and Policy: Occasional Paper Series of the Arts Management Program at the University at Buffalo. Ms. Pastore received a Bachelor of Arts from SUNY Buffalo, where she studied Art History and French and was awarded the SUNY Chancellor's Award for Student Excellence. She is currently completing her Masters Degree in Arts Management at SUNY Buffalo.

Carole Rosenstein, PhD, Co-Principal Investigator, SUNY Buffalo & Urban Institute Affiliated Scholar. Carole Rosenstein studies cultural policy, public culture and cultural democracy. She is Assistant Professor of Arts Management at SUNY - Buffalo and was 2007 Rockefeller Humanities Fellow at the Smithsonian Institution's Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage. From 2000-2007 she was a research associate at the Urban Institute, where she is currently an affiliated scholar. She has extensive expertise on IRS Form 990 data on the nonprofit arts, culture, and humanities sector. Dr. Rosenstein designed and directed the field component of the Urban Institute's $3 million Investing in Creativity study, which included research of artist communities in nine U.S. cities and a searchable archive of 450 transcribed interviews on artists' career development, longevity and support. She also led the Urban Institute's contribution to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences "Humanities Indicators Project". Dr. Rosenstein is currently investigating the ways in which policy impacts the rebuilding of living culture in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. She is author of Diversity and Participation in the Arts and How Cultural Heritage Organizations Serve Communities, and has contributed to numerous other Urban Institute research publications on the arts and culture. Dr. Rosenstein's work has been published in Semiotica, Ethnologies and The Journal of Arts Management, Law and Society. She holds a Ph.D. in anthropology from Brandeis University.

Timothy Triplett, Senior Survey Methodologist, Urban Institute. Timothy Triplett is the lead survey methodologist for the Museum Public Finance survey and is part of the Urban Institute's Statistical Methods Group. Previously he worked in the Institute's Assessing the New Federalism Project as the Survey Manger for the National Survey of America's Families (NSAF). He was the primary editor and key contributor of the 2002 series of twelve methodology reports. His work includes evaluating and monitoring sampling procedures and survey data collection for the NSAF and other UI projects, and developing and improving public use data files and internal survey data files. He conducts methodological research addressing such issues as estimating the non-response bias, weighting strategies, and imputation procedures. Tim is also the principal investigator on the planning study for conducting the 2008 National Endowment for the Arts' Survey of Public Participation in the Arts and designed the 2004 UI national study of cultural participation. Prior to joining UI, he was Sampling and Computer Resources Manager and Senior Project Manager at Survey Research Center, University of Maryland at College Park. He has over 25 years of survey research experience, including responsibility for national, statewide and regional projects, sample design, developing questionnaires, and managing statistical and computer programming. He has developed standardized procedures for sampling and data analysis and written many computer programs specific to survey research needs. He has written and presented over 25 survey methodology papers and served as the program chair for the 1998 International Field Directors and Technology Conference. He is an author of a chapter on designing surveys for the 2004-second edition of the "Handbook of Practical Program Evaluation.

Mark Woolley, Research Assistant, Urban Institute. Mark Woolley is a Research Assistant in the Metropolitan Housing and Communities policy center at the Urban Institute. Since arriving at the Urban Institute, he has contributed to research projects in the areas of community development, housing markets, public housing programs, and the development of neighborhood-level indicators. He brings skills in the manipulation and analysis of quantitative and spatial data. Currently, Mr. Woolley is working on an annual update on the Washington DC housing market; an analysis of assets, debts, and financial service use among residents of distressed neighborhoods; and data content for Dataplace, a national web-based resource for small-area community development indicators. Prior to coming to the Urban Institute, Mark Woolley earned a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley, where he studied Economic Development and Environmental Economics.