Full details of the GIA 2011 Conference Sessions are now available from the conference website. You can now see when individual session will occur and who the presenters will be, as well as any online resources associated with them.
Grantmakers in the Arts
August 8, 2011 by Steve
Violinist and MacArthur Fellow Sebastian Ruth is profiled on the String Visions website. In 1997, Ruth founded Community MusicWorks, a non-profit based in the West End neighborhood of Providence, Rhode Island. For fourteen years, CMW and Sebastian Ruth have empowered the lives of urban youth and families through classical music.
August 8, 2011 by Steve
From a Lawrence Journal-World editorial:
August 8, 2011 by Steve
Barry Hessenius's blog at Westaf has spent the past two weeks focused on Arts Education in the context of Practice and Fieldbuilding. This week the discussion turns to Policy with a new panel of respondents:
- Janet Brown, Executive Director, Grantmakers in the Arts
- Cyrus Driver, Program Learning and Innovation, Ford Foundation
- Bob Lynch, President and CEO, Americans for the Arts
- Narric Rome, Senior Director for Federal Affairs and Arts Education, Americans for the Arts
- Laurie Schell, outgoing Executive Director, California Alliance for Arts Education
August 5, 2011 by Steve
The latest addition to the National Endowment for the Arts web site is a full section devoted to the Our Town Communities where you will find photos and more information about the 51 creative placemaking projects recently awarded NEA grants to support community development through the arts and design.
August 4, 2011 by Steve
Nonprofit arts organizations are invited to attend two webcastson Thursday, August 11 and Friday, August 12about funding opportunities through the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Office of Sustainable Housing and Communities (OSHC). OSHC recently issued two Notices of Funding Availability (NOFA) for their FY 2011 Community Challenge Grants Program ($95 million in grants available) and FY 2011 Sustainable Communities Regional Planning Grant Program ($28 million available).
August 4, 2011 by Steve
This week's beat is Fieldbuilding, and the second question posed to the participants is this:
August 3, 2011 by Steve
From Lisa Chiu and Suzanne Perry at The Chronicle of Philanthropy:
A new law to increase the debt-ceiling limit does not make any changes in the tax deduction that donors receive for making charitable gifts...
“We assume that the new committee will certainly consider the cap on deductions,” said Jason Lee, a lawyer for the Association of Fundraising Professionals, a trade group that is opposed to reducing the value of the charitable deduction. “So we’re working under the premise that we still have our work cut out for us.”