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Registration is still open for the next and final installment of GIA's 2012 Web Conference Series. Set in Stone: Building America's Next Generation of Arts Facilities, 1994-2008 will be presented by Carroll Joynes and Joanna Woronkowicz of the Cultural Policy Center, University of Chicago. The webinar begins tomorrow, December 11, at 11:00 PST, 2:00 EST.
GIA Web Conferences are open to everyone. They are free to members and $35 for nonmembers.
From Nick Rabkin writing for Huffington Post:
This easy-to-use, interactive data hub, presented by Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees, provides a demographic snapshot of the foreign-born population by county in the United States.
This new report titled “Painting with Broader Strokes: Reassessing the Value of an Arts Degree" authored by SNAAP researchers Danielle Lindemann and Steven J. Tepper of Vanderbilt University and funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, focuses on the career paths of arts graduates and counters prevailing views on the value of a college education.
Animating Democracy’s blog salon, Does Size Matter?, will run December 3-7. Join 20 leaders in the field as they present diverse perspectives, questions, and ideas about increasing impact by scaling.
Michael DiFonzo discusses the the LC3 (Low-Profit Limited Liability Corporation)on HowlRound. Video from a recent conference at Columbia University, L3C and the Arts: Understanding the Potential of Low-Profit Limited Liability Corporations, can also be seen online.
Nonprofit Fianance Fund CEO Antony Bugg-Levine writes for Stanford Social Innovation Review on a new framework for Impact Investing:
But the ultimate contribution of impact investing, and similar innovations, will not come in the form of interesting investments or channeling grant money more efficiently. Instead, it will come by addressing two fundamental challenges of our moment: How will developed countries sustain a safety net in the wake of macroeconomic and demographic pressures? And how will developing countries ensure that economic growth is more equitably shared?
There has been some thoughful discussion online on the Creative Placemaking front of late:
The application for the NYFA Emergency Relief Fund for artists in Connecticut, New Jersey and New York affected by Hurricane Sandy is now available. Visit www.nyfa.org or www.artspire.org for details.
Barrty Johnson unpacks the long and complex story of Oregon's new arts education tax, and how the media got it all wrong.