Weekly Updates for GIA Members 
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Welcome Back to You and Our Incoming Board Members!
Lin-Manuel Miranda and Luis Miranda
GIA is looking forward to the year ahead with a diverse range of online learning focused on the role of justice in cultural funding and the role of culture in seeking justice as well as our racial equity and capitalization workshops. We also hope to gather again in our annual convening to take place in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Nov 7-10, 2021. We also welcome our incoming members to the GIA board of directors who will start their first three-year term with us this month:
  • Sharon DeMark, program officer, St. Paul & Minnesota Foundation
  • Tina Kuckkahn-Miller, vice president, Indigenous Arts & Education, Longhouse Educational & Cultural Center/Evergreen State College
  • Kristin Sakoda, director, Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture
We are looking forward to the journey ahead! We wish you a great year!
New from our President’s Blog series
In his final note in 2020, GIA President & CEO, Eddie Torres, reflects on Quanice Floyd’s article, The Failure of Arts Organizations to Move Toward Racial Equity, in gratitude and humility, as an opportunity - and charge – for systemic change. Eddie offers his own approach to deep learning from peers, colleagues, and other GIA team members as a starting point to the necessary reflection on power and justice. Click here to read.
From the GIA Reader
In “A New Standard for Arts and Culture Organizations Advancing Community Revitalization,” part of the Summer 2020 issue of the GIA Reader (Volume 31, No. 2), Kim Zeuli and Seth Beattie discuss The Overlooked Anchors, a report authored by the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City and supported by The Kresge Foundation. Read here.
Longhouse at The Evergreen State College
News from the Field
What We’re Reading: “Trust, Race, and Grants Data”
“The failure of trust sits at the intersection of two live debates in philanthropy. First, foundations are being called to give more to communities of color. Second, they are also being called to give capital that shows trust: long-term general operating support (GOS),” writes Jacob Harold, executive vice president of Candid.…
In Case You Missed It: When Culture Really Began to Reckon with White Privilege
“The only way to achieve equity is to expose how white privilege exists from top to bottom in many…cultural institutions, making it nearly impossible for artists of color to tell their stories on their own terms,” writes Salamishah Tillet, in The New York Times. “Fortunately,” Tillet continues, “Black artists are not waiting around for change to happen, slowly or suddenly”…
New Fund Alert: The Starshine and Clay Fellowship for Emerging Black Poets
Cave Canem, EcoTheo Review, and LOGOS Poetry Collective announced the launch of the Starshine and Clay Fellowship, a new initiative providing financial and development support to emerging Black poets, and fundraising opportunities for Cave Canem. Applications for this fellowship are accepted until January 31…

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