Grantmakers in the Arts’ Newest Members
GIA is pleased to introduce our newest members, United Arts of Central Florida, ArtsGreensboro, and ArtsNow. Welcome!
2021 GIA Registration FAQs
This year marks the first time we’re doing a hybrid conference that brings an in-person experience and a virtual track. There’s a great possibility someone asked the same question you have, so please take a look to GIA’s Conference most asked questions and be prepared. Details and registration here.
“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.
“Being Pro-BIPOC is Being Pro-Humanity”: The latest President’s Blog
In his most recent President’s Blog, Eddie Torres reflects on why Grantmakers in the Arts supports culture and why we are pro-BIPOC. Read here.
In a recent letter, members of the Arts Education Council of Americans for the Arts state "AFTA has much work yet to do to repair the harm caused — most directly to BIPOC-led arts and culture organizations — by decades of gatekeeping and resource-hoarding, spearheaded by their senior leadership"…
Farhad Ebrahimi, founder and president of the Chorus Foundation in Boston, MA, writes for The Forge on the subject of private philanthropy’s future, and the structural reforms that are needed…
For the Mellon Foundation's 2020 annual report, the foundation's president Elizabeth Alexander reflects on how Mellon moved through the past year's challenges due "to the institutional analysis in which we already had been engaged, examining and reframing our mission and values within a new strategic direction and rigorously clarifying which problems we were trying to solve with our grantmaking"…
