March Webinar: GIA’s Annual Research on Support for Arts and Culture
The next GIA webinar, to be held Tuesday, March 28, 2:00pm EDT / 11:00am PDT, will offer a summary of our annual research on support for arts and culture. Join Reina Mukai, research manager for the Foundation Center, and Ryan Stubbs, research director for NASAA, for a summary of key findings, as well as insight into what these findings reveal about the current arts grantmaking environment.
Related material: You may also be interested in this GIA podcast on innovations in data collection.
Related material: You may also be interested in this GIA podcast on innovations in data collection.
Last Chance to Submit Conference Sessions is March 29
The deadline to propose a session for the 2017 GIA Conference is Wednesday, March 29 at 5pm PDT. As the national conference of arts grantmaking, the GIA Conference aims to present engaging, informative sessions which reflect the diversity of topics important to the field. We greatly value the experience, ideas, and programs that members share with each other and the field at large. More information about making session proposals can be found on our website.
Webinar Series: Grantmaking Designs for Supporting Individual Artists
During the month of April, GIA will present a series of three webinars examining common myths about, and funder approaches to, some of the philosophical questions and technical issues related to supporting individual artists.
Tuesday, April 18
Common Myths about Support for Individual Artists
Thursday, April 20
Models of Distributing Grants and Awards to Individual Artists
Tuesday, April 25
Using Feedback and Data to Strengthen Individual Artist Support
Tuesday, April 18
Common Myths about Support for Individual Artists
Thursday, April 20
Models of Distributing Grants and Awards to Individual Artists
Tuesday, April 25
Using Feedback and Data to Strengthen Individual Artist Support
New from the GIA Reader: Reflections from an Art and Social Justice Funder
In the latest issue of the GIA Reader, Elizabeth Méndez Berry recounts a panel discussion of artists using the power of narrative to create social change. “Telling New Stories: Reflections from an Art and Social Justice Funder” considers how the work of arts and social justice can be expanded and encourages funders to investigate their role in this process.
Alex Aldrich will step down on April 14 after more than 20 years leading the nation’s only nonprofit state arts agency…
CAC received criticism from Cleveland’s arts community after announcing plans to eliminate its Creative Workforce Fellowship grants and replace them with a new program…
Earl Lewis highlights ways the Endowments have enriched society and filled a niche in the funding arena – supporting programs in underfunded rural areas…
PolicyLink has released a report supported by The Kresge Foundation revealing how arts and culture strategies are used to help create sustainable and equitable communities…
The Collaborative aims to advance “the combined power of the entertainment, philanthropic, and social justice sectors to use pop culture strategies to create transformative change in the world”…
