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August 18 Web Conference on Racial Equity

Advancing Racial Equity in Arts Philanthropy will be presented on August 18. Maurine Knighton, who is senior vice president for grantmaking at the Nathan Cummings Foundation as well as chair of the GIA Racial Equity Board Committee, will begin this session by sharing what GIA has been and is working on towards racial equity in arts philanthropy. Kelly Brown, director of the D5 Coalition, will then discuss the coalition’s research on diversity, equity, and inclusiveness in philanthropy and identify areas where the field of philanthropy is still lagging.

LA Conference Features Rip Rapson, Maria Rosario Jackson Discussion

For the Monday Luncheon Plenary of the GIA 2015 Conference, Rip Rapson, President & CEO, The Kresge Foundation, and Maria Rosario Jackson, Senior Advisor to the Arts and Culture Program, The Kresge Foundation, will discuss the foundation’s transformation from capital support to community building and the role of the arts in that work.

Register for the conference today!

Summer 2015 Reader ePub Available

The Summer 2015 issue of GIA Reader is now available in ePub format. To download the ePub edition, log in to the GIA website, go to www.giarts.org/reader-26-2, and select the “Download ePub” link. Note that you will not be able to see the link until you are logged into the website.

New from the GIA Reader: an Article by Richard Kessler on Arts Education Advocacy and Policy

Return on Investment: A New Consideration for Arts Education Advocacy and Policy Work reflects on GIA’s arts education funding report released at the AEFC Forum that was held in May.

Last Week Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker vetoed funding increases for the arts, humanities, and sciences through the Massachusetts Cultural Council (MCC). The veto would reduce the budget for MCC that the Legislature approved…

The Cultural Data Project and Americans for the Arts have announced that the CDP will provide the organizational data collection platform for Arts & Economic Prosperity 5, Americans for the Arts’ fifth national economic impact study of the nation’s nonprofit arts and culture industry…

Erik Takeshita, Director of Creative Placemaking for the Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC), will join the Bush Foundation as its Portfolio Director, Community Creativity…

The US Senate passed their version of ESEA on Thursday, July 16 by a strong bipartisan vote of 81-17. All of GIA’s additions to the bill in Committee remained in the final bill…