The U.S. Human Rights Fund—in collaboration with The Overbrook Foundation, Ford Foundation, and Just and Fair Schools Fund—invites you to a convening on human rights and racial justice. This gathering of advocates and funders will take place from November 7-9, 2011 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. More than 125 social justice advocates working on a diverse range of issues including immigration, housing, education, criminal justice, and poverty alleviation plan to attend.
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John Feather, PhD, will become CEO of Grantmakers in Aging effective October 1. He replaces Carol Farquhar, who served with GIA for more than a decade and is retiring.
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Richard is currently the Dean of Mannes College The New School of Music. Previously, he served as executive director of the Center for Arts Education, a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting arts education as an essential part of K–12 education … Continue reading
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Former Director California Arts Council, President California Assembly of Local Arts Agencies, and Executive Director of LINES Ballet. Author, consultant, blogger and public speaker. Barry published his work Hardball Lobbying for Nonprofits in 2007 (Macmillan & Company, New York). He … Continue reading
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GIA is pleased to have three influential bloggers covering the 2011 conference. Hoong Yee Lee Krakauer is executive director of the Queens Council on the Arts and blogs at hoongyee.com. Barry Hessenius is a writer, consultant and author of Barry’s … Continue reading
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A consortium consisting of several GIA members including The National Endowment for the Arts and several private foundations have created a grant program to support economic revitalization through the arts. ArtPlace America announced its first round of grants today.
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From Robin Pogrebin at The New York Times:
In the two years since he became chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, Rocco Landesman has been trying to make the case that art is an effective linchpin to economic development. Now in a broad effort to build on that thesis, he has helped to enlist an unusual consortium of foundations, corporations and federal agencies that will use cultural enterprises to anchor and enliven 34 projects around the country, from a struggling city block in Detroit to a vacant school in East Harlem.
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ArtsReady, a national initiative of South Arts, is a new readiness, response, and recovery Web-based platform designed to help ensure post-crisis business continuity for arts organizations. The online tool will be unveiled to the arts community nationwide via a free webcast on Thursday, September 15 at 1:00pm EST.
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While the Northeast, Vermont in particular, picks up the pieces in the aftermath of tremendous flash floods brought on by the former tropical storm Irene, remember that CERF+ Artists' Emergency Resources, an organization dedicated to helping Artists recover from disasters (and an organization itself based in Vermont) continues its good work. You can see the CERF+ Irene response page here.
Likewise, here's a blog post from Stuart Comstock-Gay, president and CEO of Vermont Community Foundation:
The Special and Urgent Needs Fund: Irene Recovery will support nonprofit organizations that lost facilities and materials at a time when their services were needed most. Not only is Vermont’s nonprofit sector particularly large—it makes up 18 percent of our state’s gross product—it also supports our communities and basic infrastructure.
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From Allison Fine in The Chronicle of Philanthropy:
Nonprofits must stop simply playing around with social media as if it were a pair of shimmering, five-inch Manolo Blahnik high heels and integrate the tools throughout their organizations like a pair of sturdy Timberland walking shoes.