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Philanthropic Sector Mounts Flood Relief Effort for Colorado
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The folks at The Center for Disaster Philanthropy have sent out this notice regarding the serious situation in northern Colorado.

We have been continuing to follow the floods in Colorado and the response from the philanthropic community and donors. Here is a quick run-down of the situation:
  • There are six confirmed fatalities (FEMA just announced this revised number) and 200 people unaccounted for, many of them in mountainous areas, and unreachable by telephone.
  • About 13,500 people were evacuated and 26 shelters were opened.
  • Close to 3,000 homes, 500 businesses and 5,000 other minor structures have been destroyed.
  • Flash floods remained a threat to about 20,000 homes.
  • Emergency responders continue to make airlift rescues of people now that the rain has stopped.
  • The community and the nation are coming together to support the victims, making commitments to immediate relief and long-term recovery.
Welcome to the GIA 2013 Conference Blog!
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Grantmakers in the Arts is pleased to have a great team of bloggers covering the 2013 Conference in Philadelphia. Diane Ragsdale, Barry Hessenius, and the team from Createquity – Ian David Moss, Daniel Reid, and Talia Gibas – will be posting their comments and … Continue reading →

How Parents Teach Children About Charitable Giving Matters, New Study Finds
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Role-modeling alone does not appear to be as effective as talking to children about giving, the researchers (for a new IU Lilly Family School of Philanthropy study) found. Parents who want to raise charitable children should talk intentionally with them about their own philanthropic values and practices throughout childhood and adolescence in addition to role-modeling, they say.

A Treasured New York Icon Fights to Survive: New York Theatre Ballet Evicted
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Carla Escoda posts to Huffington Post:

A beloved New York City institution is losing its home after 34 years, its impending demise another reminder that this world capital of arts and culture has become inhospitable to all but the behemoths. The small but illustrious New York Theatre Ballet, which runs a school and outreach program and rehearses its company of 12 dancers on the fifth floor of the parish house of the Madison Avenue Baptist Church at 30 East 31st Street, has been given until September 30th to move out.
Arts World Draws Boston Hopefuls’ Careful Attention
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From Stephanie Ebbert, for The Boston Globe:

Boston’s power constituencies typically hail from the fields of construction and real estate, firefighting, and law. Poets and painters do not usually register as table-thumping political forces with which to be reckoned. But the first wide-open mayor’s race in three decades has motivated Boston’s arts community to form a political movement unlike any in recent memory.
2013 Conference for Community Arts Education
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The National Guild for Community Arts Education is presenting its 2013 Conference for Community Arts Education in Chicago, October 30 through November 2. It will bring together more than 500 arts education leaders from 350+ organizations and feature nationally renowned speakers and dozens of professional development and networking opportunities designed to help you increase participation and impact, raise more money, sustain and grow key programs, and advocate for equitable access to arts education. Early registration rates end on Thursday, September 19.

What’s Art Got to Do With It?
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Grantmakers In Aging CEO, John Feather, PhD, posts to Huffington Post:

To paraphrase rock and R&B legend Tina Turner (an artist who will turn 74 this fall), “what’s art got to do with it?” (“It” refers here to aging.) This question arose after I attended a conference on aging, health, and the arts and was sharing my excitement with some colleagues in the aging services field. After listening politely for a while, one of them finally blurted out what the others may also have been thinking: “What’s art got to do with aging?”
APAP Conference Wants Student Volunteers
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The Association of Performing Arts Presenters is looking for student volunteers for its annual conference, happening next in New York City, January 10-14:

Every year, APAP is pleased to extend a special invitation to full-time students (undergraduate and graduate) interested in attending the APAP|NYC conference. Qualified students are asked to volunteer at the conference 20 hours in any combination of shifts before or during the five days of the conference.
Thinking About Nonprofit Evaluation as Affected by Time
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From Paul T. Hogan, writing for Nonprofit Quarterly:

Two critical factors seriously limit our ability to measure “impact and outcomes.” One is time. Change takes a very long time to achieve, especially in the behavior of humans, and measuring what happens to people within a 12- or 24-month period based on an intermittent (at best) intervention is not likely to reflect true or lasting change.
From Artist to Enterprise: Organizational Structures for Artists
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Raya Sehgal covers the SOCAP13 conference for Creative Capital’s blog The Lab:

The idea of artists structuring their practice as an organization or enterprise was explored in a series of Focus Sessions at the recent Creative Capital Artist Retreat. Organized with independent arts consultant Laura Callanan, the “Artist to Enterprise” series included sessions on creative entrepreneurship, structures for artist-run organizations and the importance of protecting intellectual property.