501(c)(3) non profit grantmaker

2007, 11 Pages. Americans for the Arts, One East 53rd Street, Second Floor, NY, NY 10022, (212) 223-2787, www.americansforthearts.org

2007, 11 pages. The Funder's Network for Smart Growth and Livable Communities, 1500 San Remo Avenue, Suite 249, Coral Gables, FL 33146, (305) 667-6350, www.fundersnetwork.org

When funders move into indigenous communities they tread a very fine line. On one side of the line they have a duty to undertake sufficient investigation to ensure that they properly understand a funding request and their own role in relation to it. On the other side, obtaining the information may conflict with the ability to acknowledge and give appropriate respect to the applicant's indigenous culture and its bounds.

My first horse was like New Mexico.

On summer grass under an arch of the cottonwoods, no creature could have been more beautiful, at least to my eye. He was a big rangy bay with a white blaze, and he animated the afternoons just by lazing into view. He was an ordinary country gelding, but his long-limbed grace and equine pride conjured a kind of magic. At a hundred yards, when he lifted his head, I could feel his kingly disdain. He was all horse, not an ounce of Flicka, and he could fly over the hills. Not to coin a phrase, but I was enchanted.

124 pages. Western States Arts Federation, 1743 Wazee Street, Suite 300, Denver, CO 80202, 303-629-1166, www.westaf.org

Proceedings from this Western States Arts Federation symposium that included artists and arts administrators from all over the west-ern states, feature topics related to the emergence of a new generation of arts leaders

2006, 240 pages. New Village Press, P.O. Box 3049, Oakland, CA 94609, 510-420-1361, www.newvillagepress.net

2007, 223 pages. The Foundation Center, 79 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10003.

In 2006, for its fiftieth anniversary, the Foundation Center's online resource, Philanthropy News Digest, conducted fifteen inter-views with leaders in philanthropy. This book is the collection of those interviews, compiled with an introduction by former GIA board member James Allen Smith

Center for Social Innovation, Stanford Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, 518 Memorial Way, Stanford, CA 94305

2006, 254 pages. Indiana University Press, 601 North Morton Street, Bloomington, IN 47404, iupress.indiana.edu