New Podcast on Arts Education and Covid Relief Funding!

States have already received two-thirds of their ARP Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) allocation ($81 billion) and will have access to the remaining $41 billion after the Department approves states’ plans. By June 7, states will need to submit applications to the Department of Education describing how they will use resources under the ARP ESSER fund in order to continue to reopen schools safely, sustain their safe operations and support students. What does this mean for you as a funder group or organization engaged in arts education work?

To dive into more detail and what this means for state and what you can do to support equitable arts education, GIA’s Nadia Elokdah, vice president and director of Programs, will be joined by Jamie Kasper (Arts Education Partnership) and Alex Nock and Aileen Ma (Penn Hill Group) for this podcast conversation. Check out this new episode today!

What to Expect at the 2021 GIA Conference | Plurality, Power, and Belonging

As GIA prepares to host the 2021 annual conference in San Juan, Puerto Rico, we are both excited and cautious about re-emerging into the world collectively. Following months of stay-at-home orders and practicing extra precautions to keep ourselves and each other safe and healthy, we know GIA members and conference attendees will be curious about how to prepare. For updates from the GIA team about this year’s conference, which will feature two tracks for in-person and virtual attendees, please continue to check out our website for what to expect!

From the GIA Reader

In “Arts Funders Should Build Stability and Resilience for Black Artists and Cultural Communities,” part of the Fall 2020/Winter 2021 issue of the GIA Reader (Vol. 31, No. 3), Tracey Knuckles states that to better support Black artists and cultural communities, arts philanthropy can expand its role on stable funding, creative infrastructure, and investment in organizational leadership. Read here.

“The idea behind participatory grantmaking is both simple and powerful: What if we shifted decision-making power away from supposedly expert grantmakers and investors? What if people with lived experience had the power to devise and implement solutions to the problems they face?” write Ben Wrobel and Meg Massey in Nonprofit Quarterly…

In a recent article published in Generocity, Bread & Roses Community Fund and Philadelphia Black Giving Circle discuss why large grantmakers are “beginning to think like their much smaller counterparts”…

Inside Philanthropy checks in with leaders in the arts funding sector to see how the space has changed in response to calls to fight systemic racism and what remains to be done…