GIA Conference Monday IDEA LAB

The IDEA LAB starts the day at the 2018 GIA Conference: Race, Space, and Place in Oakland, California with thought-provoking inspiration while providing the opportunity to hear directly from those creating the work and in the community. The Monday morning plenary, hosted by Roberto Bedoya, Cultural Affairs manager for the City of Oakland, will feature presentations by Antoine Hunter, Natalie Díaz, Ellen Sebastian Chang, and Amara Tabor-Smith, innovative artists and activists who continue to break barriers and challenge the norm.

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“New Horizons for Arts Education: The Student Support and Academic Enrichment program” Webinar

Earlier this year, Congress approved a $700 million increase to the Student Support and Academic Enrichment (SSAE), a block grant program, established in the Every Student Succeeds Act. This 175% increase means that schools and districts across the country can expect to receive significantly more funding to support activities that provide a well-rounded education, which includes the arts. Join Aileen Ma, senior associate, Penn Hill Group, and Alex Nock, principal, Penn Hill Group, as they help participants understand the SSAE grant program and how funders can impact the arts via opportunities and strategies at the state and local level.

“New Horizons for Arts Education: The Student Support and Academic Enrichment program” will be held Tuesday, August 14, at 2:00pm EDT / 11:00am PDT. Details and registration available here.

“Real and Not Real: The history of racialization in the United States” Webinar

Our nation has a long history of racism, discrimination, segregation, and cultural inequity. Since the 15th century, systems and structures were put in place which have perpetuated discriminatory practices. Now, in 2018, we see some of the same issues of discrimination rendering racialized outcomes—but why is this if so much time has passed? Ultimately, what does this have to do with arts philanthropy? Join Nayantara Sen, manager of Cultural Strategies and senior trainer, Race Forward, and Malcolm Shanks, Senior Training and Content Development coordinator, Race Forward, as they provide a foundational introduction to the social construction of race in the United States. This webinar will discuss the creation and perpetuation of the racial hierarchy, ideologies of whiteness, and how institutional strategies for diversity, inclusion, and equity often get conflated or confused. We look forward to an evergreen presentation from Race Forward on how funders can address these issues.

“Real and Not Real: The history of racialization in the United States” will be held Tuesday, August 21, at 2:00pm EDT / 11:00am PDT. Details and registration available here.

“Why do you need a cultural equity statement?” “Isn’t a mission statement enough?” Those are the questions Hoong Yee Lee Krakauer, executive director of the Queens Council on the Arts (QCA), used to introduce a post in which she lays out how and why QCA developed its cultural equity statement…

A new report from the Center for Effective Philanthropy, titled Nonprofit Diversity Efforts: Current Practices and the Role of Foundations, shares nonprofit leaders’ views on their diversity pursuits, how their foundation funders are interacting with or supporting them in this area, and how foundations are involved in the diversity efforts of grantees…

Ten months after Hurricane Maria’s devastation in Puerto Rico, Lin Manuel Miranda, award-winning composer, lyricist, and actor, his family, and Jeffrey Seller, producer of the Broadway hit Hamilton, have partnered with the Flamboyan Foundation to create the Flamboyan Arts Fund, as an effort to preserve the arts in the island…