May Webinar: Demographic Data Collection: Understanding Who Benefits from our Funding Support

The next GIA webinar, Demographic Data Collection: Understanding Who Benefits from our Funding Support, will be held on Tuesday, May 23 at 2:00pm EDT / 11:00am PDT. With increasing urgency, the field of arts philanthropy is investigating funding inequities and seeking remedies to longstanding practices and policies that have led to them. We understand that to make meaningful progress towards closing funding gaps requires gathering specific data that tell us who our grantees are and whom they are serving. Join Beth Tuttle from DataArts; Bronwyn Mauldin from Los Angeles County Arts Commission, a public funder; and Elizabeth Love from Houston Endowment, a private funder, as they discuss their approaches to collecting demographic data on grantees and their audiences.

Coming up: Investing in Financial Fitness: Capitalizing for Long-term Health on Tuesday, June 13.

Call for Nominations: GIA Board of Directors

Grantmakers in the Arts is seeking candidates to serve on our board of directors. Board members attend meetings three times per year in addition to the conference and are active in developing policies and programs, recruiting members, and when appropriate, raising funds that support GIA’s service to the field. This year, two or three new members will be recommended to the GIA membership for election. New board members will serve a three-year term beginning January 1, 2018 and can serve two terms. The deadline for nominations is May 22, 2017.

To access the nomination form, log in to your GIA Account and click on "Board Nomination Form" on the left sidebar of the account page. If you have not yet created an online account, create an account here. If you forgot your password, request a new password here. For additional assistance, please contact noah@giarts.org.

Arts Funders Respond: Engaging in Advocacy

How can funders engage in effective advocacy? Arts Funders Respond, GIA’s new blog for the changing political climate, has a host of resources for both public and private funders looking to engage in advocacy. New on the site, the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies has just released an update of its policy brief on government support for the arts.

Could $499,000 in Grants That Help Our Soldiers Be One Reason Congress Spared the NEA?

After President Trump threatened to eliminate the [National Endowment for the Arts], Congress approved a spending bill that not only funds the NEA for another year, but increased its $148 million annual budget by nearly $2 million…

Over 50 Percent of Americans Live and Work in Suburbs. Are 50 Percent of Them Arts Leaders?

Joshua Heim, Arts Program Manager for the city of Bellevue, Washington, posts to AFTA’s Artsblog: The lack of suburban arts leaders shouldn’t come as a surprise…

NYC Reconsidering Arts Funding Formula to More Equitably Support Smaller ‘Marginalized’ Groups

Mayor Bill de Blasio and his lieutenants are deep into a re-examination of New York City’s $178 million arts budget and other cultural resources to try and give a higher profile — and perhaps more taxpayer money — to smaller institutions in disadvantaged neighborhoods…