Private Foundation

April 30, 2009 by admin

Art and Upheaval: Artists on the World's Frontlines, William Cleveland, 2008, 334 pages, New Village Press, Oakland CA

Foundation Yearbook

April 30, 2009 by admin

2008, 56 pages. Foundation Center, 79 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, 10003, 212-620-4230, www.foundationcenter.org

Part of the “Foundations Today” series, this report focuses on foundation growth and giving by private and community foundations. Findings presented here are based on aggregate fiscal data collected by the Foundation Center on all active U.S. foundations.

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.

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

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.

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

A New Conversation about Culture

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.

International Grantmaking IV

April 30, 2009 by admin

2008, 121 pages. Foundation Center, 79 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, 10003, 800-424-9836, www.foundationcenter.org

http://foundationcenter.org/gainknowledge/research/
internationaltrends.html

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

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