Preconferences in Detroit are Filling Quickly
GIA is pleased to present two day-long preconferences and a cultural and community tour on Saturday, October 28 as part of the conference in Detroit this year. Space is filling quickly for Saturday’s activities — we encourage interested attendees to register as soon as possible.
- Racial Equity in Arts Philanthropy
- Artists & Place: Insights/Incites on Site
- Detroit Cultural and Community Tour
Next Webinar: Vitality Arts: Impact at the Intersection of Arts and Aging
The next GIA webinar, Vitality Arts: Impact at the Intersection of Arts and Aging, will be held on Tuesday, July 25 at 2:00pm EDT / 11:00am PDT. Older adults are actively seeking ways to add joy, purpose, and connection to their lives. Arts organizations, long accustomed to worries over “graying” audiences, now have an opportunity to develop meaningful and innovative relationships with this important stakeholder group. This session will share the strategies that Aroha Philanthropies, a small private foundation, is using to engage arts organizations, senior-serving organizations, and state and local agencies in creating arts programs for older adults. Aroha’s national demonstration project, Seeding Vitality Arts, generated proposals from more than 200 nonprofits from 42 states, reflecting the breadth of interest in the topic. Teresa Bonner and Ellen Michelson of Aroha Philanthropies will share information on the inaugural cohort of grantees, the capacity-building work needed to assure success, and strategies for other funders interested in this rapidly growing field.
Arts Funders Respond: The Latest Headlines
GIA’s Arts Funders Respond offers news and resources to support arts and culture in the current political climate. Here are some of the latest headlines, including updates on the federal arts budgets and recordings of past GIA webinars on how funders can engage in advocacy.
New from the GIA Reader: A New Literature Network
In the latest issue of the GIA Reader, Amy Stolls of the National Endowment for the Arts introduces The Literary Network, or LitNet, a newly reimagined national coalition of nonprofit literary organizations aiming to support the literary field’s unique needs and challenges. Read “A New Literature Network.”
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio unveiled the city’s first ever cultural plan, CreateNYC, which has been in the works for months…
The Native Arts & Cultures Foundation has released a report evaluating the social impact of the four pilot projects of its Community Inspiration Program…
A recent article in The New York Times discusses how family foundations are navigating generational changes…
GIA’s latest update on the National Endowment for the Arts and other threatened federal agencies comes from our federal policy firm, Penn Hill Group…
Grantmakers in the Arts is pleased to announce the release of new research on the formula-based funding practices of public arts funders and united arts funds…
