Meet GIA’s April Member Spotlight

For this month, GIA’s Member Spotlight is on Essex County Community Foundation. Learn about their work here.

Call for Sessions: 2021 GIA Conference

Grantmakers in the Arts is currently seeking session proposals for the 2021 GIA Conference, to be held November 7-10 in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The GIA Conference is the largest annual convening of arts funders and the most comprehensive opportunity for our colleagues in the field to learn from each other. 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.

Proposals must be submitted by April 28 at 5pm EDT. To submit your proposals, or for more information, visit our Call for Sessions page.

“Advancing Art & Advocacy: Abolition opportunities in juvenile detention” webinar

The Art for Justice Fund, a five-year initiative established by Agnes Gund, is disrupting mass incarceration by funding artists, youth activists, and advocates working together to reform our criminal justice system. Joining us in our webinar on April 27 are Shaun Leonardo (artist and performer); Margaret Morton (Ford Foundation); Hernán Carvente Martinez (Youth First Initiative); Mark Strandquist (Performing Statistics); and Risë Wilson (Art for Justice Fund) to discuss the program structure, what they learned, and why it is so crucial for art funders and justice funders to collaborate to disrupt and illuminate the inequitable laws and practices that drive mass incarceration and juvenile detention, and disproportionately impact ALAANA communities. Details and registration here.

GIA Request for Proposals – Consulting Partner

Grantmakers in the Arts seeks a consulting partner. The consultant would partner with GIA to bring together cohorts of public-sector colleagues around common themes and strategize how to address their challenges and opportunities in supporting the arts toward racial justice in public sector practice and policy. Details here.

GIA recently sent a letter to Education Secretary Miguel Cardona to urge the Department of Education to include in its Volume 2 Roadmap to Reopening handbook guidance further clarifying the importance of providing access to the arts for low-income children and children of color with the same quality and rigor as their more advantaged peers…

In “Building Trust Through Grantee Feedback,” Charlotte Brugman of the Center for Effective Philanthropy (CEP) explores the importance of trust between funders and grantees in a conversation with leaders of India’s Rohini Nilekani Philanthropies…