2021 GIA Conference: Registration Opens Next Week
Registration for the 2021 GIA Conference: Plurality, Power, and Belonging opens next Tuesday, June 29. 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 more details, we invite you to visit our conference webpage and to review local travel guidelines.
“Surviving a Pandemic: From emergency response to best practice” webinar
Over a year after the pandemic took a harsh toll on our communities, we have seen funders exercise trust and solidarity in their emergency responses by making monumental shifts in their practices. This is a great opportunity to explore and transform emergency practice into best practice as we reimagine the possibilities of supporting communities. Don’t miss our upcoming webinar on July 28 in which Eddie Torres (Grantmakers in the Arts); Dr. Mary T. Basset (Harvard School of Public Health); Gary Steuer (Bonfils-Stanton Foundation); and Tempestt Hazel (The Field Foundation); will discuss how they are reimagining funding for their grantees. Details and registration here.
A Conversation Centering Women of Color Taking on the Solidarity Economy
“What would a cultural economy be like if we loved Black and Indigenous people?” This is the compelling question that drives the recent report, Solidarity Not Charity: Arts and Culture Grantmaking in the Solidarity Economy co-authored by WOCA member Natalia Linares of New Economy Coalition, and commissioned by Grantmakers in the Arts, represented by WOCA member Nadia Elokdah.
In an intimate conversation with two women of color, the panel will discuss some of these innovative models of self-determination and community wealth and take an inside look at this illuminating treatise that affirms the critical need for amplifying the work of communities of color. To register for this event on June 30, click here. This conversation is open to WOCA members. All other supporters, allies, and accomplices are welcome to join the live broadcast via Facebook.
In an intimate conversation with two women of color, the panel will discuss some of these innovative models of self-determination and community wealth and take an inside look at this illuminating treatise that affirms the critical need for amplifying the work of communities of color. To register for this event on June 30, click here. This conversation is open to WOCA members. All other supporters, allies, and accomplices are welcome to join the live broadcast via Facebook.
From the GIA Reader
In “How to Be a Soil Keeper: Regenerative justice and whole systems care,” part of the Fall 2020/Winter 2021 issue of the GIA Reader (Vol. 31, No. 3), Kiley Arroyo writes about how “the practice of soil keeping provides individuals committed to realizing a just society with a compelling basis for imagining their work and recognizing the interdependencies between people, place, and planet.” Read here.
NDN Collective expects to open an Indigenous-led, culture-based school in Fall 2022. The school, set to serve 40 students in the first year, “will be the first Indigenous-led school designed specifically for students in the Rapid City community,” as the announcement explains…
The Opportunity Fund announced support totaling $1,112,500 in grants to arts and social and economic justice organizations, the largest cycle in its seventh year of grantmaking. “The increase in amount awarded is a result of the Board of Directors decision to release funds at a rate of 6% of its endowment annually, rather than the minimum requirement of 5%,” states the announcement…
The National Endowment for the Arts has partnered with the White House in its “We Can Do This” campaign to encourage people to get their COVID-19 vaccine “so that all arts venues can open and welcome audiences”…
