Grantmakers in the Arts

(11-29-10) GIA founding board member and former Reader editor launches a new blog with a detailed story on the demise of the Bush Foundation artists fellowship program.

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(11-24-10) The National Endowment for the Arts has announced the latest round of funding to nonprofit national, regional, state, and local organizations nationwide. This also includes the NEA’s most recent class of Creative Writing Fellows.

This round of funding is provided through three grant programs: Access to Artistic Excellence, Challenge America Fast Track, and Creative Writing Fellowships.

(11-24-10) The Chronicle of Philanthropy will host a live online discussion titled Effective Advocacy: Lessons for Charities and Grant Makers on Tuesday, November 30, noon EST/9am PST. Guest participants are Antha N. Williams, Atlantic Philanthropies; Dan Cramer, Grassroots Solutions; and Tom Novick, M+R Strategic Services.

(11-19-10) National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Chairman Rocco Landesman, U.S. Conference of Mayors Executive Director and CEO Tom Cochran, and American Architectural Foundation President and CEO Ron Bogle are pleased to announce the Mayors’ Institute on City Design’s (MICD) most recent publication, Creative Placemaking by Dr. Ann Markusen, principal of Markusen Economic Research Services, and Anne Gadwa, principal with Metris Arts Consulting.

(11-18-10) For five years, Aaron Huey has photographed life on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. This week, TED posted to its website Huey's affecting, emotional TEDx presentation, a weaving together of the things he's seen and the history he's learned.

Watch the video here.

(11-17-10) The draft discussion proposal released November 10, 2010 by the National Commission for Fiscal Responsibility and Reform co-chairs, Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson, provides a number of options to reform our nation's budget and revenue system, identifying many of the tough choices ahead in efforts to restore fiscal stability. Bowles and Simpson emphasized that the draft proposal reflects only their views and is intended to generate substantive discussion among panel members.

(11-17-10) Independent Sector (www.independentsector.org) is now accepting nominations for the 2011 John W. Gardner Leadership Award, which recognizes an individual whose leadership in or with the nonprofit and philanthropic community has been transformative and who has mobilized and unified people, institutions, or causes that improve lives. The deadline for nominations is January 31, 2011.

(11-17-10) Beyond the Recycling Bin: Greening Practices of Grantmakers, a new report by the Grants Managers Network attempts to answer that question by exploring the greening practices are currently in use by grantmaking organizations, the variables affecting the number and type of practices implemented by grantmakers, and their perceived barriers to greening. The report is based on a survey of the practices of nearly 300 grantmakers.