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This exploration of best practices, by Lydia D. Bell, draws on the studied observations of nine leading arts and culture funders to ascertain opportunities for encouraging increased diversity, inclusion and equity in society through grant making in the creative fields. … Continue reading →

“We believe strongly that the arts aren’t somehow an ‘extra’ part of our national life, but instead we feel that the arts are at the heart of our national life. It is through our music, our literature, our art, drama … Continue reading →

Full text of the President’s opening address here. And text of his closing remarks here. Memorandum to heads of executive departments and agencies here. In the NYTimes…. President Obama told hundreds of tribal leaders at an Interior Department summit today … Continue reading →

A new research advisory from the Foundation Center suggests that foundation giving will decline by more than 10 percent in 2009, a bit closer to the high end of the range estimated by the center earlier this year, and that … Continue reading →

(Thank you to all the GIA members and nonmembers who made our conference in Brooklyn a huge success. As always, GIA is working to make your lives easier and more informed. I was humbled and empowered at the same time by your stories, your confidence and your commitment.)

Veteran Broadway theater producer Rocco Landesman, off to a rocky start in his new gig as chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), demonstrated at a meeting of arts funders in Brooklyn two weeks ago that he had … Continue reading →

Several stars of stage, screen and fashion runways will join the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities, a largely ceremonial, blue-ribbon group that advises President Obama on arts and cultural issues. Yo-Yo Ma, who played at Obama’s inauguration, … Continue reading →

The Arts & Civic Engagement Impact Initiative is informed and guided by a Working Group of arts practitioners, researchers, evaluators, and funders with keen interest in understanding the social and civic impact of arts-based civic engagement work. This briefing paper, … Continue reading →

Based on a literature review drawing from the social sciences, humanities, and public policy, this new report by by Mark J. Stern and Susan C. Seifert of the Social Impact of the Arts Project at the University of Pennsylvania suggest … Continue reading →

Based on 13 years of national research on integrating arts and culture into concepts of healthy communities, Senior Research Associate with the Urban Institute Maria Rosario Jackson observes how sound and worthy community arts programs with social and civic intention … Continue reading →