Funding Research

November 12, 2009 by Steve

Author James Joseph has traveled the world interviewing men and women who contribute to the public good. In The Charitable Impulse, he explores the varied impulses that motivate philanthropists in different cultures.

The Foundation Center, September 1989, 210 pp.

Available online from The Foundation Center.

Family Foundations

November 12, 2009 by Steve

This report provides the most comprehensive measurement to date of the size and scope of the U.S. family foundation communitythe fastest growing segment of foundation philanthropy. It identifies the number of family foundations and their distribution by region and state, size, geographic focus, and decade of establishment; and includes analysis of staffing and public reporting by these funders.

Arts Funding 2000

November 11, 2009 by Steve

Arts Funding 2000, a study completed by The Foundation Center and commissioned by Grantmakers in the Arts, is the companion to Arts Funding III: An Update on Foundation Trends published in 1998. This second volume focuses issues and trends in grantmaking through the eyes of grantmakers themselves.

Arts Funding

November 11, 2009 by Steve

The first half of the 1990s represented a period of instability in arts support. Dramatic cutbacks in federal funding and modest growth in giving from individual and corporate donors raised significant financial challenges for the arts community. Although they were but one part of a much larger funding mosaic, foundations represented a stable and growing source of funds.

Foundation Funding for Arts Education

November 11, 2009 by Steve

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The Outlook for Foundation Giving

June 19, 2009 by Steve

Since 2001, GIA and the Foundation Center have collaborated on an annual “snapshot” of foundation funding for the arts based on grants awarded by a sample of over 1,000 of the largest U.S. foundations. Given the exceptional challenges now facing the country’s foundation and nonprofit communities, we have concluded that the arts field would be better served this year by a broad overview of how foundation giving might fare during the current economic crisis.

Artists in the Workforce

April 30, 2009 by admin

2008, 150 pages. National Endowment for the Arts, 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, D.C., 20506, 202-682-5400, www.nea.gov

http://www.nea.gov/research/ArtistsInWorkforce.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

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.

Artist Space Development: Financing

April 30, 2009 by admin

2007, 114 pages. Urban Institute, 2100 M Street NW, Washington, D.C., 20037, 202-833-7200, www.urban.org

http://www.urban.org/UploadedPDF/1001175_asd_financing.pdf