Grantmakers in the Arts

Report Says Art Education in New York City Public Schools Paying Off

November 17, 2015 by Jim

From Lisa L. Colangelo, Ben Chapman from the New York Daily News:

The study, completed earlier this month by New York State Controller Thomas P. DiNapoli's office, examined city Education Department data showing 95% of surveyed 2014 city high school grads completed mandatory arts lessons, up from roughly half of students who completed the lessons in a similar 2011 audit.

November 17, 2015 by Steve

From Rhonda Holman, writing for The Wichita Eagle:

The lesser effort that replaced the abolished Kansas Arts Commission has put the state at risk of losing federal funding again. It’s disappointing to see the arts still under siege in the state – and now the threat is as much fiscal as ideological.

November 12, 2015 by Jim

State of the Sector 2015: Arts and Culture Focus, authored by Angela Francis, Claire Knowlton, and Sandi Clement McKinley, of Nonprofit Finance Fund, provides an analysis of the most recent data from the annual State of the Sector Survey.

November 12, 2015 by Jim

Today, the National Endowment for the Arts announces expansion of the NEA Military Healing Arts Partnership, a collaboration with the Department of Defense that supports music, writing, and visual art therapy at military care facilities including the National Intrepid Center of Excellence at Walter Reed Bethesda and the Fort Belvoir Community Hospital Brain Wellness Center in Virginia.

November 9, 2015 by SuJ'n

Following a series of smaller updates this summer and fall, Ford Foundation's president Darren Walker officially announced over the weekend the details of FordForward, the foundation's new strategy for grantmaking. FordForward's significant changes include cutting and consolidating program areas, investing $200 million into strengthening institutions and networks, and increasing overhead support to align more closely with grantee realities. According to The Chronicle of Philanthropy, this announcement is part of a movement of foundations devoting more of their work to addressing inequality. The foundation's size and influence of $21.1 billion in assets makes their grantmaking shift a significant one with both the challenges and potential impacts that come with these changes.

Read Ford Foundation's announcement here.

November 9, 2015 by SuJ'n

GrantCraft, a service of Foundation Center, announced today the release of Funding Indigenous Peoples: Strategies for Support, a guide exploring how funders collaborate with and bring support to indigenous communities. The guide was developed in partnership with International Funders for Indigenous Peoples (IFIP) and provides examples from a diverse range of foundations on how donors see indigenous populations as important partners in a variety of areas, including on environmental and climate-related issues.

Read the full press release here.

November 9, 2015 by Steve

From Julie Halperin at The Art Newspaper:

Artists and arts administrators are optimistic about Justin Trudeau, the leader of the Canada’s Liberal party who was elected Prime Minster in October. Trudeau, the son of the celebrated former Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, has pledged to invest an additional $380m into arts and culture. Over the past eight years, the cultural sector has seen its funding decline under Stephen Harper’s conservative government. Between 2006 and 2014, per capita funding for the Canada Council for the Arts shrunk by 8.3%, from $5.54 to $5.08, according to a report released in September by the Canadian Arts Coalition. (Canada still beats the US, which dedicated $3.84 per capita in arts funding in 2014, according to Grantmakers in the Arts.)

November 6, 2015 by Steve

In an article from the latest issue of GIA Reader, Justin Laing of the Heinz Endowments explores the question: What Does Culture Look Like When #BlackLivesMatter?

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Future of the Field: Cross-Sector Creative Placemaking Series

Video from the GIA 2021 Conference are now available for streaming.

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In this first of a three-part discussion, we are joined by Susan Feder, Adam Fong, and Maurine Knighton, as they discuss the Racial Equity Coding Project, why it was started, their experience with the earliest iterations of the coding measures, and how their reflections will inform steps forward.

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