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The Foundation Center has created an interactive map of resources for non-profits seeking information on resources for gaining access to stimulus package funding. The act includes new or expanded government grant programs designed to provide assistance to communities or individuals … Continue reading →

At least since the early 1990s, the cultural field has lamented the fact that it is a disaggregated and distributed policy field. Policy agendas and new practices emerge in specific contexts, pushed along by actors and organizations that have particular … Continue reading →

Three articles in the current issue of Dance USA Journal address aspects of evolution and change in dance companies that also have application in other arts organizations and will be of interest to dance funders as those who fund in … Continue reading →

This new research advisory from the FOundation Center, the latest in a series that sheds light on the impact of the economic downturn on the nonprofit sector, examines how U.S. foundations are coping with the crisis. The findings are based … Continue reading →

From the New York Times Even as arts groups around the country are cutting back because of declining endowments and donations, a new foundation to support the work of American Indian, Native Hawaiian and Alaska Native artists is being established … Continue reading →

I was in California last week where I met with groups of arts funders in San Francisco and Los Angeles. When we were talking about changes within their organizations, two program managers reported that the arts had been moved in their foundations from stand-alone programs into “community” programs. One entity made this move as a reaction to the economy. The other organization had done this prior to the economic downturn. Regardless, it means the arts are part of a bigger picture of community issues.

In the Louisville Courier Journal ( Photo Louisville Shakespeare Company) Amid the most severe economic downturn since the Great Depression, Louisville’s principal arts organizations are being challenged as never before. Approaches once considered sacrosanct, realities thought etched in concrete, are … Continue reading →

From The Australian ( image courtesy of the National Library of Australia) “The time has come to bring Australia in line with the civilised parts of the world as far as arts education is concerned,” leading music educator Richard Gill … Continue reading →

Wisdom of Jeff Chang in The Nation… …Artists played a largely unheralded role in Obama’s victory. But they had been tugging the national unconscious forward for decades, from the multiculturalist avant-gardes of the 1970s and ’80s to the hip-hop rebels … Continue reading →