Grantmakers in the Arts Newest Members
GIA is pleased to introduce our newest members, New Jersey State Council on the Arts and Theatre Forward. Welcome!
“Leveraging the Every Student Succeeds Act to Advocate for the Arts” Webinar
As the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) rolls out in states, arts funders have a unique opportunity to respond and support arts advocacy efforts. In this webinar, we feature Jane Best, director of the Arts Education Partnership (AEP) at the Education Commission of the States in Denver, CO. Best will provide an overview of ESSA and the value it brings to states via a case study on her advocacy work in partnership with the California Alliance for Arts Education (CAAE). Joe Landon, CAAE executive director, and Title I Program Director Laura Smyth will speak to the positive impact of arts education advocacy on their Title I initiative. Join us for this deep dive and learn what you can do to support advocacy efforts in arts education.
“Leveraging the Every Student Succeeds Act to Advocate for the Arts” will be held on Tuesday, May 29, at 2:00pm EDT / 11:00am PDT. Details and registration available here.
“Leveraging the Every Student Succeeds Act to Advocate for the Arts” will be held on Tuesday, May 29, at 2:00pm EDT / 11:00am PDT. Details and registration available here.
A Collaborative Webinar: “Impact investing in the creative economy”
Arts and cultural production represents 4.2 percent of the United States economy, or $760 billion, and socially responsible investing has reached $8.7 trillion. However, impact investing in arts and culture, nationally, is 0%. This presents a unique opportunity. As we see foundations increasingly align their investing with their missions, as Nathan Cummings Foundation recently announced, impact investing in the creative economy is a way to ensure increased support for arts and culture and the communities they serve.
Hosted by Foundation Center, this webinar — examining mission-related investment (MRI) strategies within foundations — features:
“Impact Investing in the Creative Economy” will be held on Thursday, May 31, at 2:00pm EDT / 11:00am PDT. Details and registration available here.
Hosted by Foundation Center, this webinar — examining mission-related investment (MRI) strategies within foundations — features:
- Laura Callanan, founding partner of Upstart Co-Lab
- Eddie Torres, president & CEO of Grantmakers in the Arts
- Ellen Friedman, executive director at the Compton Foundation
- Gary Steuer, president & CEO of Bonfils-Stanton Foundation
“Impact Investing in the Creative Economy” will be held on Thursday, May 31, at 2:00pm EDT / 11:00am PDT. Details and registration available here.
From the GIA Reader
In “Paying Attention to White Culture and Privilege: A missing link to advancing racial equity,” Gita Gulati-Partee, founder and chief strategist of OpenSource Leadership Strategies, and Maggie Potapchuk, founder of MP Associates, offer reflections on their experiences as racial equity practitioners, working with foundations and other social change organizations. Published in the Fall 2014 edition of the GIA Reader, the piece explores challenges to engaging foundations in exploring white privilege and white culture in their internal and external work toward racial equity as well as tools
for tackling them.
This May, after five years, the art space 356 Mission in East Los Angeles will be closing its doors. But, as Nonprofit Quarterly wrote citing Hyperallergic, there were mixed reactions to the news…
The Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund pledged $10 million in support of organizations using the arts to address health issues affecting New Yorkers, The New York Times reported…
In times when it is crucial that more Latinx individuals have a say in institutions that ultimately impact their community, Hispanics in Philanthropy’s Next Generation Líderes Program is looking for 25 leaders “who want to contribute to the development of equitable philanthropy across the Americas”…
According to a new piece in Forbes, this shift can be understood in relation to other impact-focused enterprises, and nonprofits are learning to refocus their strategies to maximize that impact…
Drue Heinz, a cultural philanthropist and publisher of The Paris Review, died on March 30 of this year, and reflecting on her life evokes a career in favor of culture and the arts…
