May Webinar: Demographic Data Collection: Understanding Who Benefits from our Funding Support
The next GIA webinar, Demographic Data Collection: Understanding Who Benefits from our Funding Support, will be held on Tuesday, May 23 at 2:00pm EDT / 11:00am PDT. With increasing urgency, the field of arts philanthropy is investigating funding inequities and seeking remedies to longstanding practices and policies that have led to them. We understand that to make meaningful progress towards closing funding gaps requires gathering specific data that tell us who our grantees are and whom they are serving. Join Beth Tuttle from DataArts; Bronwyn Mauldin from Los Angeles County Arts Commission, a public funder; and Elizabeth Love from Houston Endowment, a private funder, as they discuss their approaches to collecting demographic data on grantees and their audiences.
Call for Nominations: GIA Board of Directors
Grantmakers in the Arts is seeking candidates to serve on our board of directors. Board members attend meetings three times per year in addition to the conference and are active in developing policies and programs, recruiting members, and when appropriate, raising funds that support GIA’s service to the field. This year, two or three new members will be recommended to the GIA membership for election. New board members will serve a three year term beginning January 1, 2018 and can serve two terms. The deadline for nominations is May 22, 2017.
To access the nomination form, log in to your GIA Account and click on Board Nomination Form on the left sidebar of the account page. If you have not yet created an online account, create an account here. If you forgot your password, request a new password here. For additional assistance, please contact noah@giarts.org.
To access the nomination form, log in to your GIA Account and click on Board Nomination Form on the left sidebar of the account page. If you have not yet created an online account, create an account here. If you forgot your password, request a new password here. For additional assistance, please contact noah@giarts.org.
Arts Funders Respond: The Latest Headlines
Arts Funders Respond is an opportunity to learn and share strategies, statements, news, and other resources to support arts grantmakers as they navigate and respond to the changing political landscape. Here are some of the latest headlines:
Please email materials to Monica Thomas at monica@giarts.org to be considered for inclusion on Arts Funders Respond.
Member Spotlight on The George Gund Foundation
For the month of May, the photo banner on GIA’s website features work supported by The George Gund Foundation. The private foundation was established in 1952 by George Gund to provide intelligent underwriting of creative solutions to the issues and for the institutions that were important to him. Areas of focus include the arts, economic development and community revitalization, education, environment, and human services.
Included in the spending bill is increased funding for the National Endowments for the Arts and Humanities, an additional $2 million more than the 2016 budget for each agency.…
Damrosch has earned a local and national reputation as a respected arts administrator while helping create one of the best-known public art collections in the country…
The new federal spending bill would spare — and even slightly increase — funding for three arts-related agencies that President Donald Trump has proposed eliminating: the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the National Endowment for the Arts and National Endowment for the Humanities…
