How to Become an Arts Advocate: GIA’s latest podcast

We kicked off our Arts Advocacy series last month and we are excited to provide more insight on how you can be an arts advocate. This podcast features Eddie Torres, Grantmakers in the Arts president & CEO, Kerry McCarthy, GIA board vice chair and New York Community Trust program director of Thriving Communities: Arts and Historic Preservation and, E. San San Wong, GIA board member and Barr Foundation director of Arts and Creativity. They take a deeper dive into a discussion about what foundations and funders can do to support advocacy efforts, and strategies for funders in the current national landscape.

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Grantmakers in the Arts’ Newest Members

GIA is pleased to introduce our new members, Charlotte Street Foundation and VH1 Save the Music Foundation. Welcome!

If you still need to renew your GIA membership, you can now renew your GIA 2018 Membership online.

“GIA’s Annual Research on Support for Arts and Culture” Webinar

Published in the Winter 2018 edition of GIA Reader, the latest edition of GIA’s annual Arts Funding Snapshot includes “Foundation Grants to Arts and Culture, 2015,” based on the most recent completed year of Foundation Center data, and “Public Funding for the Arts, 2017,” prepared by the National Assembly of State Art Agencies (NASAA).

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. Session 2 of the 2018 GIA Webinar Series will take place on Tuesday, April 10, at 2 pm EDT / 11 am PDT. Details and registration available here.

New from the GIA Reader

Published in the Winter 2018 edition of the GIA Reader, in “Seeking Truth to (Em)Power: How to fix our field’s broken link between research and practice,” consultant Ian David Moss makes the case for the transformative nature of knowledge and a well-functioning knowledge ecosystem even when arts leaders report having difficulty keeping up with information. Moss addresses the gap between research and practice and argues that arts grantmakers are not taking advantage of the knowledge they have to translate existing research into practice.

The devastating impact of Hurricane Maria upon Puerto Rico in September 2017 has left despair and many questions on how to rebuild its infrastructure and also its people’s future…

Through illustrative examples of artists who have received considerable cash grants and the experiences of foundations that give them, a recent New York Times article tackles how getting a substantial cash grant can alter most artists’ lives and the questions that come after awards of this kind…

For the month of April, GIA’s photo banner features work supported by the Rhode Island Foundation…