Final Week! Call for Sessions Submission Deadline this Friday!

Due to concerns about COVID-19 and the need to attend to each of our home communities, Grantmakers in the Arts is extending our call for conference sessions. We will be accepting session proposals through this Friday, March 27!

GIA is seeking session proposals for the 2020 GIA Conference, to be held November 15-18 in New York City. We greatly value the experience, ideas, and programs that members share with each other and the field at large. GIA members are invited to propose conference sessions on our website. Details here.

For conference updates please visit the conference website.

COVID-19 & the Arts Ecosystem Survey

Please take 3 minutes to fill out our “COVID-19 & the Arts Ecosystem Survey,” specifically designed to ask grantmakers about their response actions and collect questions grantmakers may have of their peers. Thank you for your time and answers!

Reclaiming Narratives: Arts Advocacy and Cultural Policy Webinar

“As 2020 ramps up, please advocate often and enthusiastically!” This is a call to action from GIA President & CEO, Eddie Torres’s latest blog. We are in a federal election year and it is important to clarify what is, and isn’t, within the boundaries of funders when discussing advocacy and lobbying. Join us on April 14 to hear from Abby Levine (Bolder Advocacy at Alliance for Justice) and Favianna Rodriguez (The Center of Cultural Power). They will offer a 101 on advocacy and lobbying practice for funders, and how funders and grantees can become more civically engaged to reclaim truth and proclaim justice. Details and registration here.

Winter 2020 issue of the GIA Reader Now Online!

We are excited to announce that the latest issue of the GIA Reader is now available online! In this issue you will find articles discussing how funders consider, utilize, and reflect upon data and research to inform their practices while striving to be inclusive, equitable, and just. We present our Annual Arts Funding Snapshot in partnership with Candid. and the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies alongside other reflections from: Americans for the Arts; Rebecca Thomas; The Howard Gilman Foundation; Denver Arts & Venues; Springboard for the Arts and ArtPlace America; and the Robby Poblete Foundation’s Art of Peace gun buyback arts program.

Lisa Pilar Cowan, vice president of the Robert Sterling Clark Foundation, shared recently how the foundation has started to take action in light of the ongoing impact of the coronavirus “to reflect where we are – off a cliff”…

“As a woman of color leading a nonprofit, I am no stranger to mansplaining,” shares Sarah Iddrissu, executive director of E4E-Boston, in an article in Educators for Excellence that stresses that nonprofits need women of color in leadership and the need to disrupt the structural barriers to their advancement…

COVID-19 is hitting investment portfolios with “a series of plunges in asset values not seen since the market meltdown of 2008,” Debra Moniz, director of administration and finance at the Cedar Tree Foundation, writes in Exponent Philanthropy…

Both the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate passed the “Families First Coronavirus Response Act” a bill that "has strong implications for the artist residency network," as the Alliance of Artists Communities noted recently…