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Why are we taking action?
More than 850 million people go hungry worldwide, 985 million live on less than a dollar a day. More than 1 billion of our global neighbors do not have access to clean, safe and sustainable sources of water. More than 2 million children die needlessly every year from diseases directly related to dirty water. Every $20 we raise can provide clean water for one person for an entire year.
One of the most extraordinary aspects of life in the United States is the persistence of hunger. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) reported that in 2006:
The above facts are but a few of the reasons we want to join with select corporations, art
galleries, publishers, non-profit organizations and all citizens of the
world a global effort to perpetuate the concept of “sensitivity”
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Q. What is the BeSensitive Network? What is the BeSensitive Fund and the BeSensitive Symbol?
A. We are not a nonprofit organization. The BeSensitive Network is simply a facilitator, we provide a product (artwork) in a joint effort with major corporations, art dealers, galleries and publishers, in order to help raise funds for nonprofit groups that have a proven track record of having made a difference in our communities and/or through-out the world. The BeSensitive Fund as a catalyst a co-branding service provider, our role is simple to lend our BeSensitive Symbol to help raise private donor funds through the sale of the collectable artwork by James e. Woody and thereby help non-profit organizations provide effective sustainable solutions to many of humanities challenges.
Our Objective: To make a significant financial contribution to deserving nonprofit organizations supported by the patron and facilitators of the arts.
Our Principals:
A sustain a conscience commitment to addressing the needs of others with respect for human dignity
Join with a broad range of partnerships based on equality and support
Respect for social, cultural, and ethnic diversity
Evidence-based approach founded on principles of excellence and integrity
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Distilling your company’s essence to a few words and ensuring your brand communications are clear, cohesive and created under the guiding principle of ‘one brand, one concept, one voice as simple message is a formidable task:
What does your corporate brand say to your customers?
What does it mean to your employees? Would they give the same answer?
Would it be the answer you wanted? Would it even be one you expected?
The
BeSensitive as
co-branding strategy and a 'symbol' are designed to help our corporate supporters resonate
their brand regardless
of whether the brand is being used to market products and services, define
organization roles, or establish a corporate culture or vision.
Our
co-branding strategy
provides one promise, communicated clearly, concisely and consistently; that
your organization is sensitive to the most pressing environmental and
humanitarian needs of our time.
We seek to help our corporate supporters of
nonprofit initiatives define exactly what their brand / company
stands for, so its power can be used to achieve maximum return on
communications spending. It helps to define what your company is and where
it is headed. It acts as an objective ongoing tool for assessing all brand
communications, employee behaviors and business processes.
Our offering will provide a
valuable potential return—from both a
market valuation and bottom-line business results perspective.
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More than 1 billion of our global neighbors who do not have access to clean,
safe and sustainable sources of water. More than 2 million children die
needlessly every year from cholera, typhoid and other diseases directly
related to dirty water. We (your company name)
support The "Clean Our World Foundation" and are helping to eradicate this
horrible problem. Fifty (50%) Percent of the proceeds from the purchase of
this artwork is donated to "Clean Our World Foundation"
Q. What is the BeSensitive Network? What is the BeSensitive Fund and the BeSensitive Symbol?
A. We are not a nonprofit organization. The BeSensitive Network is simply a facilitator, we provide a product (artwork) in a joint effort with major corporations, Art Dealers, Galleries and Publishers, in order to help raise funds for nonprofit groups that have a proven track record of having made a difference in our communities and/or through-out the world. The BeSensitive Fund as a catalyst a co-branding service provider, our role is simple to lend our BeSensitive Symbol to help raise private donor funds through the sale of the collectable artwork by James e. Woody and thereby help non-profit organizations provide effective sustainable solutions to many of humanities challenges.
Q. What are the qualifiers and terms for participation ?
A. You and your foundation must currently support a nonprofit organizations and/or environmental and humanitarian projects. The general rules for participation are defined by the BeSensitive Network and the artist, include but are not limited to ownership of a 501c certification with a proven track record for providing sustainable solutions that address humanitarian and environmental issues. When your project(s) is accepted in to the BeSensitive program you will be sent an agreement; make a selection of artwork you want to purchase, sale or auction. Your selection of painting(s) will not be duplicated. If you choice to sale or auction the work, it will only made exclusive for your nonprofit and your corporate partner(s) to promote and sale mutually agreed period of time. Your organization and your sponsor(s) information will be listed on our website. You will also be sent a jpeg copy of the artwork for you and your partner(s) to use for marketing purposes. If you want to purchase, sale or auction any of the works and are currently a incorporate nonprofit organization, please take 3 minutes to complete our questioner.
Q. How does the program work?
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Q. How is the Artwork Priced and Sold?
A. All paintings represented within this
website (besensitive.net) are original works of which no further copies will
be made unless under licensing terms when a benefit is derived for a mutually
agreed not for profit organization and/or environmental or humanitarian
project. Artwork can only be sold via your organizations website, newsletter and/or
auction. If the artwork is sold in a live auction environment, the said work
will be delivered by bonded carrier to the predetermined auction location at
the expense of the auctioneer and/or beneficiary.
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What is the state of the Art Market and Why collect? (The following information are excerpts from Artprice 2007 Market Trend Report)
Earlier this year (January 28, 2008) Artprice (industry market trend analysis experts) initiated a new real-time indicator on its web site to gauge market trends: the Art Market Confidence Index ® is based on the same theoretical principles as those used to calculate the Michigan Consumer Sentiment Index of the Survey Research Center at the University of Michigan, a reference tool for financial markets the world over.
This new international index, which allows geographical and chronological comparisons with other economic and social phenomena, offers vital information to market-makers and is a rich resource for market statisticians. The tool relies on real-time contact with market players around the globe and monitors developments in each country as and when they happen. The AMCI® therefore summarizes market sentiment and its fluctuations reflect the reactions of the art market to specific events such as the results of high-profile sales, stock market movements, geopolitical developments, or any phenomena capable of impacting the world’s economies.
In 2007, and for the seventh year running, the art market saw an overall rise in prices. Art was already seeing demand from new areas like China, Russia, India and the Emirates but as investing on stock markets or in property appears riskier, new collectors and investment funds are showing interest as they seek out new kinds of alternative investing.
"Young collectors" are particularly drawn to contemporary art, the most volatile sector but also the most liquid. The climate is favourable and even though France has fallen to 4th position in world rankings behind China, it is performing very well at auctions.
In 2007, the art market posted its 7th consecutive year of price inflation. In global terms, art prices rose 18% over the previous year. The higher prices were accompanied by a higher total Fine Art market revenue at 9.2 billion dollars, up 43.8% compared with 2006 and driven by a substantially higher number of sales above the million-dollar line: 1254 compared with 810 in 2006 which was already an exceptional year with a record level of transactions. 2007 was therefore a veritable annus mirabilis for the art market.
The end of the year, punctuated by spectacular sales - particularly in the more speculative and volatile contemporary segment - was nevertheless exposed to the chill winds of a less favorable economic context. Between sub-prime fallout fear (which first emerged in August), volatile financial markets and a worrisome US economy, no-one was expecting a strong art market in November and December of 2007.
And yet the art market - today a truly globalized market - managed to ignore market turbulence, posting dynamic results on the back of a wave of nouveaux riches collectors from countries posting very strong economic growth rates (essentially Russia, China and India).
Indeed art sales in November 2007 received a considerable boost when Sotheby’s recorded its best ever all-time sale (14 November) generating a total revenue of USD 316 million from its Contemporary Art Evening (topping the USD 286 million it generated from its Impressionist and Modern Art sale in 1990). The day before, its rival Christie’s took a total of USD 325 million. Christie’s had already posted a sales figure of USD 385 million from its contemporary art sale in May.
Taking full advantage of the market effervescence, numerous pieces acquired just a few years back at much lower prices reappeared on the market in 2007. Indeed a brief overview of some of the ‘round trips’ recently negotiated amply demonstrates just how profitable investing in art can be. To cite just a few... a portrait of Elizabeth Taylor by Andy Warhol that Hugh Grant acquired for USD 3.25 million nearly six years ago sold for USD 21 million at Christie’s in 2007. A canvas entitled Reclining Figure of Jym painted by Frank Auerbach in 1985 fetched GBP 270,000 last year having sold for only GBP 30,000 in October 2003. Even less risk-oriented works such as Claude Monet paintings have been caught up in the speculative flow, overtaking 1990 prices (the last market peak): on 18 June 2007 Waterloo Bridge, temps couvert sold to an American collector in London for GBP 16 million (USD 31.7 million), way above the price paid by its owner 17 years before. But just limited to the echelon of high net worth collectors. couvert sold to an American collector in London for GBP 16 million (USD these profitable operations are not just limited to the echelon of high net worth collectors.
THE UNITED STATES CONSOLIDATES IT MARKET LEADER POSITION
Once again, global art market growth was mainly driven by the United States where 43% of the world’s auction revenue was generated in 2007 (same as in 2006). Despite an increase of 34.5% in its total revenue, New York actually lost 1.89 points in terms of market share as international competition increased.
Underlying New York’s revenue growth there was above all a 33.8% increase in negotiated prices compared with the previous year. NY prices were generally 71.5% higher than their 1990 levels. In such a dynamic market, the auctions houses easily manage to attract exceptional pieces to their sales, and, all-in-all, in 2007,
the year were generated in the Big Apple. However, for the first time ever, its was contemporary & post-sales, ahead of the Moderns (Pablo ahead of the Impressionists (Monet and Renoir etc.). they managed to generate 609 sales above the million-dollar line. And once again, the biggest numbers in war art that generated the biggest Picasso, Modigliani and Klimt) andThe three highest New York bids of the year came from the sales of: Mark Rothko - USD 65 million for White Center (1950), Andy Warhol - USD 64 million for Green Car Crash (Green Burning CarI) (1963) and Francis Bacon - USD 47 million for Study from Innocent X (1962). Paul Gauguin, the number one post-impressionist of the top sales ranking, only arrived in 6th place with a sale of USD 35 million generated by Sotheby’s in November for Te Poipoi, le matin (1892).
Henceforward, Contemporary art sales are far more profitable for auctioneers than sales dedicated to Impressionist and Modern art. On 16 May 2007 Christie’s set a new record for a contemporary art sale, generating a total of USD 385 million from 74 lots. On 14 November, Sotheby’s confirmed the trend, setting its own new in-house record at USD 316 million with its Contemporary Art sale. For a complete overview of market conditions, take a look at the 2007 Art Trends Report
Artprice’s figures say it all.
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