Community Foundation

April 30, 2009 by admin

In the past two years, several prominent foundations at national, regional, and local levels have appointed new presidents. Such leadership transitions are likely to increase in the years ahead in keeping with the larger generational shift in the nonprofit sector. Very few of the new foundation leaders are likely to come from the arts sector, and many will have had little direct experience with our field.

A New Day for Youth

April 30, 2009 by admin

2008, 31 pages. The Wallace Foundation, 5 Penn Plaza, 7th floor, New York, NY, 10001, 212-251-9700, www.wallacefoundation.org

http://www.wallacefoundation.org/wallace/
whitepaper_noam.pdf

April 30, 2009 by admin

When presidents and CEOs of foundations try to balance a range of equally justifiable social agendas, where are the arts? Sponsored by GIA, six foundation leaders spent a day and a half together discussing just this topic in the summer of 2008. The relevance of their conversation and the preliminary conclusions they drew are perhaps even more urgent today than they were then, as foundations face increasingly serious questions of priority.

All America's a Stage

April 30, 2009 by admin

2008, 8 pages. National Endowment for the Arts, 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, D.C., 20506, 202-682-5400, www.nea.gov

http://www.nea.gov/research/TheaterBrochure12-08.pdf

April 30, 2009 by admin

2009, 238 pages. Wiley, 10475 Crosspoint Boulevard, Indianapolis, IN, 46256, 877-762-2974, www.wiley.com

What Is Civil Society?

April 30, 2009 by admin

In The Place of the Arts in Multi-focus Foundations, Bruce Sievers writes that the rationale for supporting both the arts and the nonprofit sector as a whole is integrally linked to their capacity to advance pluralism, promote voluntary action, accommodate diversity, and champion individual visions of the public good. “Civil society,” Sievers notes, is increasingly the accepted concept to describe this sphere of social action.

Engaging Art

September 30, 2008 by admin

2007, 408 pages. Published by Routledge, 800-634-7064, www.routledge.com

The Nonprofit Sector in Brief

September 30, 2008 by admin

2008, 8 pages. The Urban Institute, 2100 M Street, NW, Washington, D.C., 20037,
(202) 833-7200, www.urban.org

http://www.urban.org/UploadedPDF/411664_facts_and_figures.pdf

Building Communities

September 30, 2008 by admin

2008, 32 pages. Funders for Lesbian and Gay Issues, 116 East 16th Street, 7th Floor, New York, NY, 10003, (212) 475-2930, www.lgbtfunders.org

http://www.lgbtfunders.org/files/FLGI%20LGBTQ_POCRprt-F.pdf

Pathways to Transformation

September 30, 2008 by admin

2008, 37 pages. Bush Foundation, 332 Minnesota Street, Suite E-900, Saint Paul, MN, 55101,
(651) 227-0891, www.bushfoundation.org

http://www.bushfoundation.org/publications/BAF_Art_BookSpreads.pdf

This report chronicles the first 30 years of the Bush Artist Fellows program through profiles of 10 fellows, several essays by fellows and observers, and excerpts from fellows' creative work.