GIA Board Elects New Officers

At its November board meeting at the Barr Foundation in Boston, the GIA board elected Angelique Power (The Field Foundation of Illinois) as chair and Kerry McCarthy (The New York Community Trust) as vice chair. Both will serve a two-year term. Maurine Knighton (Doris Duke Charitable Foundation) and Glyn Northington (Nonprofits Assistance Fund) will continue as secretary and treasurer, respectively.

GIA also welcomes new board members Jaime Dempsey (Arizona Commission on the Arts), Ken May (South Carolina Arts Commission), and Sharnita C. Johnson (The Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation).

February Webinar: Implementing the Every Student Succeeds Act

The next GIA webinar, Implementing the Every Student Succeeds Act in Your State and Local Community, will be held on Tuesday, February 28 at 1pm EST / 10am PST. The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) enacted in 2015 included several important arts education provisions that will systemically embed the arts into K–12 public education. In this session, Alex Nock from Penn Hill Group will discuss how the new Administration will implement these provisions. Nock will also discuss how funders and organizations working at the local level can use the opportunities provided in ESSA to advocate for the arts as a systemic part of state education, including articulating state strategies for providing all students with equitable access to a well-rounded education.

Podcast: Arni Fishbaugh on Funding in Rural Communities

New on the GIA Podcast, Janet Brown, president & CEO of Grantmakers in the Arts, speaks with Arlynn (Arni) Fishbaugh on funding in rural communities and what she has in store for retirement after 24 years at Montana Arts Council.

New from the GIA Reader: Becoming the Agile Nonprofit

In an article in the latest issue of the GIA Reader, “DataArts: Becoming the Agile Nonprofit,” Beth Tuttle, CEO of DataArts, details how the organization adapted its internal practices to the Agile framework to accelerate progress toward its strategic goals.

Sotheby’s is hiring Christy MacLear, the chief executive of the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation and before that the executive director of the Philip Johnson Glass House, to expand the auction house’s advisory services for living artists and for artists’ estates and foundations…

At a roundtable of the National Initiative for Arts & Health in the Military, leaders from the military, veteran, public, and private sectors met to discuss how to bring greater access to the arts and creative arts therapies…

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation announced a new investment in documentary film with a four-year, $5 million grant to the International Documentary Association to establish the IDA Documentary/Journalism Project…

Twenty nonprofit poetry organizations from across the United States have formed a historic coalition dedicated to working together to promote the value poets bring to our culture and communities, and the important contribution poetry makes in the lives of people of all ages and backgrounds…