August 18 Web Conference: Advancing Racial Equity in Arts Philanthropy
Advancing Racial Equity in Arts Philanthropy will be presented on August 18. Maurine Knighton of the Nathan Cummings Foundation, and Kelly Brown of the D5 Coalition, are the presenters. GIA Web Conferences are free for GIA members. The fee for nonmembers is $35.
Register to attend this Web Conference.
Register to attend this Web Conference.
Racial Equity Forum Content and Video Now Available Online
Grantmakers in the Arts hosted a national dialogue for arts funders on June 2, 2015 on increasing funding and access to funding for African, Latino(a), Asian, Arab and Native American (ALAANA) organizations. It was held at the Center for Civil and Human Rights in Atlanta. You can now view the presentations from the forum web page, including those by Carlton Turner and Kenny Leon, and panel discussions from the nonprofit field and from the philanthropic field.
LA Preconference Explores Supporting Documentary Film Through a Filmmakers-First Perspective
Investing in Filmmakers: Arts and Media is one of a pair of preconferences GIA will present at the Los Angeles conference. This preconference will be held at the Paramount Pictures Studios, and feature filmmakers, and film funders, including from the Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program, Ford Foundation’s JustFilms.
Remember that early bird registration rates end on August 31. So register for the conference today!
Remember that early bird registration rates end on August 31. So register for the conference today!
New from the GIA Reader: The Creative Caregiving Initiative
The Creative Caregiving Initiative: Arts at the Intersection of Wellness is a report from Margery Pabst Steinmetz — founder and president of The Pabst Charitable Foundation for the Arts, and board president-elect of the National Center for Creative Aging — on the three-year evolution and journey from vision to implementation of the Creative Caregiving Initiative.
Since philanthropic foundations reduced sizes of gifts to Milwaukee area nonprofit groups during the Great Recession, most donations have fully rebounded — except grants to arts and cultural programs…
(Emily) Sterling and Char Hutson’s debut documentary, Arts Exit: Saving the Creative Kid, which was selected by the Hollywood Theatre for a fiscal sponsorship, tracks the human cost of gutted arts education in Portland’s schools…
In a change years in the making, the Denver-based (Bonfils-Stanton Foundation) recently shifted all of its support to the arts — a move that’s rare, if not unprecedented, for a grant maker with previously broad areas of focus…
The budget for the Massachusetts Cultural Council will increase by 20 percent after the state Legislature on Wednesday voted to override Gov. Charlie Baker’s July 17 budget veto that would have level funded the state arts agency…
