Grantmakers in the Arts’ Newest Members
GIA is pleased to introduce our newest members, The CIRI Foundation and Roundhouse Foundation. Welcome!
GIA at Face2Face 2021: Talking to funders about DEI work
Nadia Elokdah, vice president and director of Programs at Grantmakers in the Arts, and Sharnita C. Johnson, program director at the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation and GIA board member, participated in a Face2Face panel with Durell Cooper (Cultural Innovation Group) and Donita Volkwijn (Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors) exploring issues of systemic racism and structural oppression relating to the philanthropic field. Watch it here.
From the GIA Reader
In “DEI Work is Governance Work,” part of the Fall 2020/Winter 2021 issue of the GIA Reader (Vol. 31, No. 3), Jim Canales and Barbara Hostetter discuss the process through which the Barr Foundation, in light of all that 2020 brought, asked within its organization “How do we best live out our values? How do we advance our philanthropic mission in this context? In order to meet this moment, what needs to change in what we do and how we do it?”. Read here some of the lessons and reflections they share with the field.
The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) announced more than $52 million in funding for state and jurisdictional arts agencies and regional arts organizations, the first recommended awards of the American Rescue Plan…
The Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Board of Trustees recently approved more than $2.8 million in grants toward an equitable and just New Jersey. The grants include more than $350,000 in new Imagine a New Way grants…
