Relive our Conference: Doug Good Feather

Doug Good Feather, citizen of Sitting Bull’s Band of the Hunkpapa Lakota from the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe of South Dakota, singer/flutist/fancy dancer, took the 2019 GIA Conference stage. GIA Board Chair Ted Russell (Kenneth Rainin Foundation) and Board Member Tariana Navas-Nieves (Denver Arts & Venues) introduce. Watch the video.

Grantmakers in the Arts Racial Equity Podcast Series

As a part of our continued efforts to elevate racial equity as a critical issue affecting the field, we are glad to introduce our first Racial Equity Podcast Series. To kick us off, Eddie Torres (GIA) discusses why we value and center racial equity via a stroll through the history of arts funding, offers a review of ways that GIA is collaborating to continue centering racial equity in concrete ways, and how GIA will continue this creative collaboration in order to continue the work across sectors. Click here to listen!

Summit Alert - A Trip Down Memory Lane: Activism, Culture, and the Individual Artist

Support for artists have a long and varied history in the United States. While much has changed, there remains a large space for understanding what it takes to be an artist today and to support an artist today. Join us and our partners, New York Grantmakers in the Arts (NYGIA) for this GIA summit, hosted by Philanthropy New York next week on Wednesday, January 29, to hear from folks in the field as we explore conversations about artistic freedom, censorship, activism, and decency standards, and the role philanthropy plays.

Presenters include Suzy Delvalle, Charles Rice Gonzalez, Miguel Luciano, Liza Jessie Peterson, and Dread Scott. Details and registration here.

GIA’s Annual Research on Support for Arts and Culture Webinar

In the upcoming Winter 2020 edition of the GIA Reader, the latest edition of GIA’s funder snapshot will include “Foundation Grants to Arts and Culture, 2017,” based on the most recent completed year of Candid. data, and “Public Funding for the Arts, 2018,” prepared by the National Assembly of State Art Agencies (NASAA).

Join us on February 11 to hear from Reina Mukai (Candid.), Ryan Stubbs (NASAA), and Patricia Mullaney-Loss (NASAA). They will share a summary of key findings and insights into what these findings reveal about the current arts grantmaking environment, as well as an introduction to what we can expect for the new year. Details and registration here.

The "Creating Healthy Communities through Cross-sector Collaboration" white paper brings more than 250 thought leaders from the public health, arts and culture, and community development sectors to - according to the announcement - “frame the value of the arts and culture for advancing health and well-being in communities”…

In a recent blog post on Nonprofit AF, Vu Le calls for important interrogation of the philanthropic field’s learned practices and how “they constantly and unconsciously affect how we think about and do everything”…

The Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation and Rutgers Institute for Ethical Leadership recently launched The Nonprofit Professionals of Color Collective, a monthly leadership series…

A newly established philanthropy, The Lewis Prize for Music, which seeks to invest in music leaders to facilitate positive change and increase access to music education, just announced it awarded nearly $2 million to its inaugural class of awardees…

The National Association of State Boards of Education (NASBE) released the latest issue of its journal, the State Education Standard, which focuses on the arts and arts education…