501(c)(3) non profit grantmaker

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.

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

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.

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

Philanthropy Annual

April 30, 2009 by admin

2008, 116 pages. Foundation Center, 79 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, 10003, 212-620-4230, www.foundationcenter.org

http://foundationcenter.org/philanthropyannual

read:write

April 30, 2009 by admin

2008, 64 pages. Arts Council England, 14 Great Peter Street, London SW1P 3NQ, UK, 0845-300-6590, www.artscouncil.org.uk

http://www.artscouncil.org.uk/documents/publications/
phpvMEmeh.pdf

April 30, 2009 by admin

2008, 108 pages. RAND Corporation, 1776 Main Street, Santa Monica, CA, 90407, 310-451-7002, www.rand.org

http://www.wallacefoundation.org/knowledge-center/arts-education/Community-Approaches-to-Building-Arts-Education/Pages/revitalizing-arts-education.aspx

The School Leadership Challenge

April 30, 2009 by admin

2009, 31 pages. Grantmakers for Education, 720 SW Washington Street, Suite 605, Portland, OR, 97205, 503-595-2100, www.edfunders.org

http://www.edfunders.org/downloads/GFEReports/
SchoolLeadershipChallenge.pdf

The Search for Social Entrepreneurship

April 30, 2009 by admin

2008, 295 pages. Brookings Institution Press, 1775 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, D.C., 20036, 202-797-6000, www.brookings.edu

http://www.brookings.edu/press/Books/2008/
searchforsocialentrepreneurship.aspx