Funding Research

Culture and Community Development in Higher Education

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

Risk, Return and Social Impact

April 30, 2009 by admin

2008, 129 pages. FSG Social Impact Advisors, 20 Park Plaza, Suite 320, Boston, MA, 02116, 617-357-4000, www.fsg-impact.org

http://www.fsg-impact.org/ideas/item/Guide_to_Law_of_Mission_Related_Investing.html

Digital Youth Research

April 30, 2009 by admin

2008.

http://digitalyouth.ischool.berkeley.edu

Over three years, University of California, Irvine researcher Mizuko Ito and her team interviewed over 800 youth and young adults and conducted over 5000 hours of online observations as part of the most extensive U.S. study of youth media use.

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

Effective Foundation Management

September 30, 2008 by admin

2007. 162 pages. AltaMira Press, a division of Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., Lanham, MD 20706, www.altamirapress.com

Visions from the New California

September 30, 2008 by admin

2008, 36 pages. Alliance of Artists Communities, 255 South Main Street, Providence, Rhode Island, 02903, (401) 351-4320, www.artistcommunities.org

www.artistcommunities.org/files/files/Visions_from_the_New_California.pdf

Toward a 21st Century Public Education

September 30, 2008 by admin

Following a successful 2007 program in Santa Fe, members of GIA and Grantmakers for Education (GFE) came together in May 2008 for an Arts and Education Forum in the Boston area. Collectively, over fifty of our members took part in a program that included discussions with government and school leaders, researchers, and inventors. The program examined how one region has tackled the challenge of arts integration and looked at ways that arts and technology could be powerful partners in learning. The following three essays were prepared by participants.

Clay Shirky: Here Comes Everybody

September 30, 2008 by admin

2008, 327 pages.

The more things change, the more they remain the same.
Jean Baptiste Alphonse Karr, 1849 French critic and writer

Foundation Growth and Giving Estimates

September 30, 2008 by admin

2008, 13 pages. Foundation Center, 79 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, 10003, (212) 620-4230, www.foundationcenter.org

http://www.foundationcenter.org/gainknowledge/research/pdf/fgge08.pdf

September 30, 2008 by admin

Between 2006 and 2008, the Social Impact of the Arts Project, a research group at the University of Pennsylvania (SIAP), collaborated with The Reinvestment Fund (TRF), a community development financial institution, on an investigation of the creative sector's potential contribution to neighborhood economic and community development.