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How Grantmakers Value Culture in Unexpected Places: Eddie Torres’ newest President’s Blog
GIA President & CEO, Eddie Torres, writes about the field’s approach to arts funding at the intersection as an expression of culture as a fundamental component of social change. Read here.
MIE’s 16th Mission Investing Institute: Discount for GIA members
Mission Investors Exchange (MIE)’s 16th Mission Investing Institute at Ford Foundation’s Center for Social Justice in New York City, March 26-28, will feature member-led sessions designed to help philanthropic professionals get started in impact investing— whether they are part of a well-established impact investing program or developing one from scratch.

As a valued MIE partner, GIA members are being offered a $200 discount off the non-member registration fee of $2,300. (GIA members who are also MIE members can register at the MIE member registration fee. To find out if your organization is also an MIE member, please check this list.) To register for the Institute and avail of the discount, email Anjana Agarwal before March 11. Click here for more information.
Relive the 2018 GIA Conference: john a. powell
GIA 2018 Conference: john a. powell
During his powerful keynote address for the Monday Luncheon Plenary, john a. powell, director of the Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society and professor of Law, African American, and Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, encouraged grantmakers to let people know they belong and that we must think about arts and culture in a different way. Watch the video.
“GIA’s Annual Research on Support for Arts and Culture” Webinar and a Reader Preview
As a preview of our Winter 2019 edition of the GIA Reader, read here GIA’s annual funding snapshot.

Join us for our first webinar of the year discussing the annual funding snapshot which looks at “Foundation Grants to Arts and Culture, 2016,” based on the most recent completed year of Foundation Center data, and “Public Funding for the Arts, 2018,” prepared by the National Assembly of State Art Agencies (NASAA). How have things changed since the last GIA funder snapshot in April 2018, and what can we look forward to for 2019?

“GIA’s Annual Research on Support for Arts and Culture” will be held Tuesday, February 26, 2019, at 2:00pm EST / 11:00am PST. Details and registration available here.
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News from the Field
A Learning Network and Collaborative Fund to Support ALAANA Arts Groups
The Mosaic Network and Fund in The New York Community Trust, a learning network and collaborative fund to support arts and cultural organizations that are led by, created for, and accountable to ALAANA people will kick off in March, announced a post penned by Maurine Knighton and Kerry McCarthy, co-chairs, advisory committee of The Mosaic Network and Fund in The New York Community Trust…
The Systemic Obstacles Women of Color Encounter in the Nonprofit World
Women of color face systemic obstacles to their advancement over and above the barriers faced by white women and men of color, according to a new report by the Building Movement Project…
Doris Duke Foundation Grants $4.5M to Arts Organizations That Express America’s Diversity
The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation (DDCF) recently announced 16 arts organizations received awards in recognition of their work and for their potential continued impact on their fields…
Impact Investing: Calculating and assessing the impact
A recent piece in the Harvard Business Review states that as investors are eager to generate both business and social returns, one avenue has been impact investing or “directing capital to ventures that are expected to yield social and environmental benefits as well as profits”…
A Fellowship for Social Justice Leaders
The Kellogg Foundation's Community Leadership Network, that seeks to promote racial equity and get people involved in the communities where they live, includes in its most recent class from tribal leaders to a dentist, reports The Chronicle of Philanthropy

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