“Arts Funding, Storytelling, and the Importance of Narrative Change” Webinar
Grantmakers in the Arts is a community of practice with a shared vision of investing in arts and culture as strategy for social change. One of the major issues we are exploring is dominant and/or mainstream narratives that continue to live on and perpetuate racialized practices and outcomes. With a system that is not broken, but rather structured intentionally to foster inequitable and unjust outcomes, the need for narrative change is more urgent now than ever.
We seek to elevate the importance of changing narratives among arts and culture funders, and we invite you to join us kick off this narrative change series.
Join us on Thursday, May 2, 2019 at 2pm ET/11am PT to hear from Vanessa Camarena-Arredondo, Beloved Community Fund program officer, Akonadi Foundation, and Rinku Sen, writer and political strategist. They will anchor the series with a discussion on the national discourse around narrative change, how artists are using storytelling to facilitate this shift, and what this means for funders. Details and registration here.
We seek to elevate the importance of changing narratives among arts and culture funders, and we invite you to join us kick off this narrative change series.
Join us on Thursday, May 2, 2019 at 2pm ET/11am PT to hear from Vanessa Camarena-Arredondo, Beloved Community Fund program officer, Akonadi Foundation, and Rinku Sen, writer and political strategist. They will anchor the series with a discussion on the national discourse around narrative change, how artists are using storytelling to facilitate this shift, and what this means for funders. Details and registration here.
Briefing Discusses Intersection of Disability, Equity, and Philanthropy
RespectAbility, a nonpartisan group working on inclusion efforts for people with disabilities, surveyed 969 people working at nonprofits and foundations, conducted focus groups, and spoke with executives at philanthropy-serving organizations to discuss the intersection of disability, nonprofits, and philanthropy. “Disability in Philanthropy & Nonprofits” can be joined in person on April 25 and online. Click here for more information.
From the GIA Reader
In the Winter 2019 issue of the GIA Reader, in “Nuts and Bolts: Who Chooses the Choosers?” Ben Cameron, president of the Jerome Foundation, and Gina Gibney, CEO & artistic director of Gibney Dance, address how to make the panel system better and the lessons they have learned in evaluating and improving “what will always be an imperfect process.” Read the piece here.
“Funding in Rural Remote Communities” Webinar
As we think about the unique challenges that face various communities that are considered rural, funding practices often come packaged for a similar prototype while the term “rural” remains a descriptor for objectively remote communities and bustling cities alike. However, when we think particularly about indigenous and native communities in tandem with arts and culture funding, philanthropic practice can look very different.
Join us on Tuesday, May 21, 2019 at 2pm ET/11am PT to hear from Lindsie Bear, program director of Native Cultures Fund, Humboldt Area Foundation, and Reuben Roqueñi, director of National Artist Fellowships, Native Arts and Cultures Foundation. They will share how they have seen supporting indigenous communities, both remote and rural, and they will offer suggestions for rural and remote arts and culture philanthropic practice for communities across the nation. Details and registration here.
Join us on Tuesday, May 21, 2019 at 2pm ET/11am PT to hear from Lindsie Bear, program director of Native Cultures Fund, Humboldt Area Foundation, and Reuben Roqueñi, director of National Artist Fellowships, Native Arts and Cultures Foundation. They will share how they have seen supporting indigenous communities, both remote and rural, and they will offer suggestions for rural and remote arts and culture philanthropic practice for communities across the nation. Details and registration here.
After a full day of leading workshops on how to talk about race thoughtfully and deliberately that showed an overrepresentation of employees of color and an underrepresentation of white employees, Ijeoma Oluo shares her thoughts on how “so often the white attendees have decided for themselves what will be discussed, what they will hear, what they will learn”…
Showcasing the story of Julie Phelps, executive director of CounterPulse, a community-based art and culture space in San Francisco, Phil Buchanan, president of the Center for Effective Philanthropy, discusses the importance of nonprofit executives running small, community-based organizations…
In a letter, the board of directors of Grantmakers in the Arts requested that Congress support appropriations of $167.50 million for the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities respectively, as well as $262 million for the Institute of Museum and Library Services, and $480 million for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting…
Funders are redefining philanthropic giving in education, focusing increasingly on advancing education equity, according to a new report from Grantmakers in Education…
