Changing Relationships between Funders and the Field

Session Designers: Judi Jennings, Kentucky Foundation for Women and Janet Sarbaugh, Heinz Endowments
Moderator: Janet Sarbaugh, Heinz Endowments Published: Fall 2003

The convergence of long-term global economic factors, changes in state and federal policies and levels of arts funding, the prolonged decline of the stock market, and financial uncertainty ahead are combining to create long-term economic changes for funders and for the artists and arts organizations they support. What responses or solutions are emerging from the field? This session presented multiple perspectives through the medium of three "duets" between a national funder and a national arts service organization; an arts manager and a regional funder; and an individual artist and a funder who works with individual artists.

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