Bobbie Lippman is Senior Program Officer for Culture at The Pew Charitable Trusts and Director of the Cultural Data Project. Lippman joined the Trusts in 1999 to work with the Philadelphia Cultural Leadership Program, which awards three years of operating support to cultural organizations located in the five-county Philadelphia region that demonstrate strong management, planning and financial practices. The Cultural Data Project, which has been managed as an operating project at the Trusts since 2005, is a web-based data collection, management and reporting tool created to strengthen arts and cultural organizations, inform grant-making strategies and enhance cultural planning policies. A total of 650 cultural organizations throughout Pennsylvania are currently using the Cultural Data Project. In June 2007, the Cultural Data Project expanded to Maryland where it is anticipated that up to 500 cultural organizations will participate. California followed suit with the launch of the California Cultural Data Project in January 2008, and up to 5,000 groups are expected to participate by 2011. Prior to joining Pew, Lippman taught at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia, where she also served as Assistant Dean of the College of Art and Design (1987-1990) and as Director of Adult Education and Extension Programs (1991-1999). She founded the papermaking program at Historic RittenhouseTown in Philadelphia, site of the first paper-mill in the United States, and was co-editor of Hand Papermaking magazine.