Public Agency

Big Ideas

April 30, 2009 by admin

2008, 32 pages. Center for Ecoliteracy, 2528 San Pablo Avenue, Berkeley, CA, 94702, 510-845-4595, www.ecoliteracy.org

http://ecoliteracy.org/publications/big_ideas.html

An Unfinished Canvas

April 30, 2009 by admin

2008, 51 pages. SRI International, 333 Ravenswood Avenue, Menlo Park, CA, 94025, 650-859-2000, www.sri.com

http://policyweb.sri.com/cep/publications/AnUnfinishedCanvasLargeScaleAssessment.pdf

Cultivating Demand for the Arts

April 30, 2009 by admin

2008, 125 pages. The Wallace Foundation, 5 Penn Plaza, 7th floor, New York, NY, 10001, 212-251-9700, www.wallacefoundation.org

http://www.wallacefoundation.org/SiteCollectionDocuments
/WF/Knowledge%20Center/Attachments/PDF/
cultivating-demand-for-the-arts.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

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

Structural Racism

April 30, 2009 by admin

All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Strength to Love, 1963

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

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.

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

Funder as Supplicant

April 30, 2009 by admin

As a program officer at The San Francisco Foundation, I say “No” to artists and arts organizations daily. I try to soften the blow, detailing the reality of limited resources and an overabundance of projects, seldom discussing quality or appropriateness, thinking I am kinder in vagueness.