Community Foundation

November 12, 2009 by Steve

John Nason, drawing on years of experience as a trustee, guides foundation officials and their boards through difficulties and provides insights into critical areas of concern.

The Foundation Center, March 1989, 173 pp.

Available online from The Foundation Center.

Community-Based Arts Organizations

July 13, 2009 by admin

2009, Americans for the Arts, 21 pages. Americans for the Arts, 1000 Vermont Avenue NW, 6th Floor, Washington, D.C., 20005, (202) 371-2830, www.artsusa.org.

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The Outlook for Foundation Giving

June 19, 2009 by Steve

Since 2001, GIA and the Foundation Center have collaborated on an annual “snapshot” of foundation funding for the arts based on grants awarded by a sample of over 1,000 of the largest U.S. foundations. Given the exceptional challenges now facing the country’s foundation and nonprofit communities, we have concluded that the arts field would be better served this year by a broad overview of how foundation giving might fare during the current economic crisis.

Foundation Giving Trends

April 30, 2009 by admin

2008, 43 pages. Foundation Center, 79 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, 10003, 212-620-4230, www.foundationcenter.org

Taking Note

April 30, 2009 by admin

2009, 90 pages. American Music Center, 30 West 26th Street, Suite 1001 New York, NY, 10010, 212-366-5260, www.amc.net

http://www.amc.net/takingnote/taking note.pdf

Foundation Growth and Giving Estimates

April 30, 2009 by admin

2008, 13 pages. Foundation Center, 79 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, 10003, 212-620-4230, www.foundationcenter.org

http://foundationcenter.org/gainknowledge/research/
pdf/fgge09.pdf

Art and Upheaval

April 30, 2009 by admin

Art and Upheaval: Artists on the World's Frontlines, William Cleveland, 2008, 334 pages, New Village Press, Oakland CA

Foundation Yearbook

April 30, 2009 by admin

2008, 56 pages. Foundation Center, 79 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, 10003, 212-620-4230, www.foundationcenter.org

Part of the “Foundations Today” series, this report focuses on foundation growth and giving by private and community foundations. Findings presented here are based on aggregate fiscal data collected by the Foundation Center on all active U.S. foundations.

Arts Education

April 30, 2009 by admin

I have always revered the work of David McCullough and recently I read remarks he made last spring that focused his audience on arts education:

One of our greatest blessings, the greatest among all that we have inherited, is the English language and its power to express things. Keep in mind, too, please, that information, as much as we love to brag about it, isn't learning. If information were learning, you could become educated by memorizing the world almanac. If you memorized the world almanac, you wouldn't be educated, you'd be weird.

Grantmaking With a Racial Equity Lens

April 30, 2009 by admin

2007, 29 pages. Grantcraft, 320 East 43rd Street, New York, NY, 10017, 212-573-4879, www.grantcraft.org

http://www.grantcraft.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=page.viewpage&pageid=840