Occupy Wall Street and Arts Face Similar Themes
Submitted by Steve on October 23, 2011
Elizabeth Kramer explores local issues relating to the NCRP Report “Fusing Arts, Culture and Social Change” in an article for the Louisville Courier-Journal:
Some community-based funding groups have already looked at issues the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy addresses in its report. One is Cincinnati’s ArtsWave, a new name for what was called the Fine Arts Fund that was founded in 1949.
Like Louisville’s Fund for the Arts, which was founded the same year, the Cincinnati organization had a set group of member arts groups for which it raised funds. But in 2008, the leaders of that funding organization began looking at ways to expand its mission and serve more diverse groups throughout the community by funding arts activities in neighborhoods and across a spectrum of arts organizations.