Performance

April 30, 2009 by admin

Historical data do not mean anything in this situation. There is no blueprint and there is no network. We are doing the best we can with a combination of hard facts and intuition. Every line item is up for grabs; every $1,000 is material. How we feel about it all depends on which newspaper we read that morning.

Managing Director, large performing arts group

Introduction

Why Arts?... Why Arts!

April 30, 2009 by admin

Many of the feature articles in this issue offer tools for responding to GIA Executive Director Janet Brown's call to speak up, to not sit silently in the back but to stand up and illustrate or make the case for why arts and culture matters.

Philanthropy in a Changing Society

September 30, 2008 by admin

2008, 77 pages. Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, 6 West 48th Street, 10th Floor, New York, NY, 10036, (212) 812-4335, www.rockpa.org

http://rockpa.org/pdfs/Philanthropy_in_a_Changing_Society_full.pdf

Social Effects of Culture

September 30, 2008 by admin

2008, 43 pages. Hill Strategies Research, Inc., Hamilton, Ontario, (877) 445-5494, www.hillstrategies.com

http://www.hillstrategies.com/docs/Social_effects_culture.pdf

Toward a 21st Century Public Education

September 30, 2008 by admin

Following a successful 2007 program in Santa Fe, members of GIA and Grantmakers for Education (GFE) came together in May 2008 for an Arts and Education Forum in the Boston area. Collectively, over fifty of our members took part in a program that included discussions with government and school leaders, researchers, and inventors. The program examined how one region has tackled the challenge of arts integration and looked at ways that arts and technology could be powerful partners in learning. The following three essays were prepared by participants.

September 30, 2008 by admin

Between 2006 and 2008, the Social Impact of the Arts Project, a research group at the University of Pennsylvania (SIAP), collaborated with The Reinvestment Fund (TRF), a community development financial institution, on an investigation of the creative sector's potential contribution to neighborhood economic and community development.

Art and Upheaval

September 30, 2008 by admin

2008, 326 pages. Published by New Village Press, PO Box 3049 Oakland, CA, 94609,  (510) 420-1361, www.newvillagepress.net

A Man for All Performances

September 30, 2008 by admin

Danny Newman, who died last year (2007) at the age of eighty-eight, was a major post- World War II patron of the arts, but his contributions were not personal checks. Rather, they lay in helping arts companiestheaters, orchestras, dance groups, operasbuild strong, committed audiences, providing the sound financial basis they needed to survive and flourish. His major tool was the promotion of subscriptions, a wide-ranging effort embodied in his book Subscribe Now! Building Arts Audiences through Dynamic Subscription Promotion.

Artists Count

September 30, 2008 by admin

2007, 44 pages. Minnesota Citizens for the Arts, 2233 University Avenue West, Suite 355, St. Paul, Minnesota, 55144, (651) 251-0868, www.mncitizensforthearts.org

http://mncitizensforthearts.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/interioronlyfinal.pdf

Minding the Gaps

September 30, 2008 by admin

Jaime Cortez was an arts and culture fellow at the San Francisco Foundation for two years. At the end of his fellowship, he and the other outgoing fellows were asked to read a prepared farewell statement to the board and staff of the foundation. Following is his closing presentation, given on July 9, 2008.