Corporate Philanthropy

April 30, 2009 by admin

Bill Ivey chaired the National Endowment for the Arts from 1998 through 2001, directed the Country Music Foundation from 1971 to 1998, and was twice elected chairman of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. He presently serves as founding director of the Curb Center for Art, Enterprise, and Public Policy at Vanderbilt University.

Atlantic Reports: What We've Learned

April 30, 2009 by admin

2008, 33 pages. The Atlantic Philanthropies, 125 Park Avenue, 21st Floor, New York, NY, 10017, 212-916-7305, www.atlanticphilanthropies.org

http://www.atlanticphilanthropies.org/content/download/
6739/103341/file/ATLP_farmworkers_report.pdf

Puget Sound Funders Act Together

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

April 30, 2009 by admin

2008, 77 pages. Imagining America, 203 Tolley Building, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, 13244, 315-443-8590, www.curriculumproject.net

http://www.curriculumproject.net/pdfs/08.CP.report.pdf

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.

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

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.

International Grantmaking IV

April 30, 2009 by admin

2008, 11 pages. Foundation Center, 79 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, 10003, 800-424-9836, www.foundationcenter.org

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

Into the Breach

April 30, 2009 by admin

2009, 16 pages. The New Media Consortium, 6101 W. Courtyard, Bldg. One, Suite 100, Austin, TX, 78730, 512-445-4200, www.nmc.org

http://www.nmc.org/pdf/Into-the-Breach.pdf

April 30, 2009 by admin

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