GIA has published a report on the Thought Leader Forum on Arts and Aging, which was held on April 6, 2011 in Washington, D.C. The report was authored by Suzanne Callahan, Callahan Consulting for the Arts, and Diane Mataraza, Mataraza Consulting, and can now be downloaded from the GIA Library.
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The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation is now accepting applications for the second year of the Knight Arts Challenge Philadelphia from today through Oct. 31. The three-year, $9 million community-wide contest seeks the most innovative ideas in the arts to engage and enrich Philadelphia’s communities.
Richard Kessler, who will be blogging from the 2011 GIA Conference later this week, posts to his own blog, Dewey 21C:
The James Irvine Foundation has launched the Exploring Engagement Fund as part of the foundation's new Arts program strategy announced in June. The Exploring Engagement Fund is designed to help nonprofit arts organizations try new ways of engaging audiences and participants.
From Eric Roper at the Star-Tribune:
Pacific Standard Time is a collaboration of cultural institutions across Southern California coming together to celebrate the birth of the L.A. art scene. Beginning October 2011, over 60 cultural institutions will make their contributions to this region-wide initiative encompassing every major L.A. art movement from 1945 to 1980.
Opinion from Paul Tetreault at Politico:
I offer up the arts as an important starting place. Across the country, countless arts venues open their doors each night to offer thought-provoking work, forcing us to wrestle with our pre-conceived notions of other times, other cultures and other beliefs.
The Dodge Foundation’s 2012 guidelines reflect a continuing evolution of grantmaking in the areas of the Arts, Education, Environment and Media. For the Arts:
PBS Newshour interviews the authors of the book Give Smart: Philanthropy That Gets Results:
One author is Tom Tierney, co-founder of the Bridgespan Group, a nonprofit focused on helping donors and nonprofit leaders to act in ways that accelerate social change. The other is Joel Fleishman, a Duke University professor of law and public policy, and a long-time expert on philanthropy.
California has 11,000 arts and culture nonprofits, a number that places the state ahead of most nations in the world. Californians are more likely to participate than other Americans — but arts involvement and nonprofit organizations are unevenly spread across California’s geographic and demographic communities.
New findings generated by Markusen Economic Research and commissioned by The James Irvine Foundation offer fresh illustrations of the California nonprofit arts sector and the people who take part in it. Released today, California’s Arts and Cultural Ecology details the research and its findings.