Grantmakers in the Arts’ Newest Members

GIA is pleased to introduce our newest members, Assembly for the Arts, National Council for the Traditional Arts, City of Providence Department of Art, Culture + Tourism, and Arts Council of Greater Lansing. Welcome!

New Podcast Alert! Racial Equity Coding Project

There are large disparities between the grant funding received by African, Latinx, Asian, Arab, and Native American (ALAANA) and White organizations. And, while funders are increasingly more aware of this gap, a challenge remains to gather accurate data around racial equity funding practices that illustrate a more detailed and accurate accounting of grantmaking efforts to advance racial equity. To address this, Grantmakers in the Arts is participating in the Racial Equity Coding Project, which was kicked off with a culmination of research led by Doris Duke Charitable Foundation (DDCF) with Callahan Consulting for the Arts (CCA). The project has given funders an opportunity to examine and refine their own coding practices and to consider new data collection measures for the future.

In the first episode of this three-part podcast series, we are glad to be joined by Susan Feder (Andrew W. Mellon Foundation), Adam Fong (William and Flora Hewlett Foundation), and Maurine Knighton (Doris Duke Charitable Foundation). They discuss why the project started, their experience with the earliest iterations of the coding measures, and how their reflections will inform steps forward. Listen here.

Last Chance! GIA Board of Directors Call for Nominations

The call for nominations for candidates to serve on our board of directors is open for a few more weeks. Be sure to submit your nominations before April 7. To access the nomination form, log in to your GIA Account and click on Board Nomination Form in the left sidebar.

Move the Money Solidarity Economy Discussion Series

Grantmakers in the Arts & Art.Coop are excited to be co-hosting Move the Money, a series of presentations and discussions about opportunities to enact new approaches to grantmaking and investing that shift control to communities and make tangible the principles laid out in the report Solidarity Not Charity.

Join us on Wednesday, April 13 at 11am PDT | 2pm EDT for the final event in the series, a discussion with Carlton Turner (Mississippi Center for Cultural Production and GIA Board of Directors) and Allen Kwabena Frimpong (ZEAL & Liberation Ventures). Registration is free, limited, and first-come-first served. Register here.

Image courtesy San Antonio Area Foundation.

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