Last Chance! Call for Sessions Closes Tomorrow!

Grantmakers in the Arts is currently seeking session proposals for the 2021 GIA Conference, to be held November 7-10 in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The GIA Conference is the largest annual convening of arts funders and the most comprehensive opportunity for our colleagues in the field to learn from each other. We greatly value the experience, ideas, and programs that members share with each other and the field at large. GIA members are invited to propose conference sessions on our website.

Proposals must be submitted by tomorrow, April 28, at 5pm EDT. To submit your proposals, or for more information, visit our Call for Sessions page.

Today! “Advancing Art & Advocacy: Abolition opportunities in juvenile detention” webinar alert

The Art for Justice Fund, a five-year initiative established by Agnes Gund, is disrupting mass incarceration by funding artists, youth activists, and advocates working together to reform our criminal justice system. Joining us in our webinar today are Shaun Leonardo (artist and performer); Margaret Morton (Ford Foundation); Hernán Carvente Martinez (Youth First Initiative); Mark Strandquist (Performing Statistics); and Risë Wilson (Art for Justice Fund) to discuss the program structure, what they learned, and why it is so crucial for art funders and justice funders to collaborate to disrupt and illuminate the inequitable laws and practices that drive mass incarceration and juvenile detention, and disproportionately impact ALAANA communities. Details and registration here.

From the GIA Reader

“Centered. Elevated. Celebrated. Well Resourced. Welcome to Nonprofit Wakanda.” part of the Fall 2020/Winter 2021 issue of the GIA Reader (Vol. 31, No. 3), was originally published in the inaugural issue of Nonprofit Wakanda Quarterly, an independent and free space for Black people who work or who are involved in the nonprofit sector to dream, aspire, interrogate, and express, freely. David McGoy offers a moment “to focus on the desired state — the place where we’re headed.” Centered. Elevated. Celebrated. Well Resourced. Read here.

In “Buffering Against Uncertainty: Working capital and the resiliency of BIPOC-serving organizations,” Rebecca Thomas principal at Rebecca Thomas & Associates, and Zannie Voss, director of SMU DataArts, delve in working capital levels of arts and cultural organizations, emphasizing on BIPOC-serving organizations…

“A bailout for live music and other event venues passed in the last relief bill. But one month after applications were scheduled to launch, they have not, and many venues are barely hanging on,” reported recently NPR on the desperation of venue workers…

“In order to resolve generational wealth extraction from BIPOC and working-class communities, there needs to be more accountability for investors and funders, and more agency for these communities,” write Shante Little and Curt Lyon in Alliance Magazine…