Introducing Keynote Speakers: Frances Negrón-Muntaner

Frances Negrón-Muntaner, one of the world’s leading scholars of Latino studies and a groundbreaking artist and professor at Columbia University, is one of the keynote speakers at the 2021 Grantmakers in the Arts Conference. Her scholarship and artistry span a wide range of forms, such as film, public art, and essay, with a focus on the Caribbean, the African diaspora, and Latinos in the United States. The National Association of Latino Independent Producers and the Latino Arts and Activism Collection at Columbia University’s Rare Book & Manuscript Library are among the programs and institutions Negrón-Muntaner has founded. Details and registration here.

2020 GIA Annual Report Available

Grantmakers in the Arts’ latest annual report summarizes our 2020, a year marked by the coronavirus pandemic, further highlighting the inequities and violence that disproportionately affect BIPOC communities. Like many other organizations, GIA’s programming looked somewhat different than in previous years.

You can view the annual report here.

An Updated Black Arts & Cultural Funding and Justice Resource Hub

This week for Black August, we are glad to share our recently updated Black Arts & Cultural Funding and Justice Resource Hub. We’ve made some additions to the list to reflect some of the great work you are doing to support Black communities (and BIPOC communities), and we celebrate these examples of investment in Black arts, acts of hope, and acts of justice. Learn more here!

“National Service Can Be a Key Means of Addressing the BIPOC Wealth Gap”

AmeriCorps, the federal agency which provides support through funding and people power to more than 2,000 organizations across America, announced how it will use its $1 billion allocation in American Rescue Plan (ARP) funds. The use of these funds will meet two critical goals, meaningfully responding to the BIPOC wealth gap and ensuring that service is more accessible to low-income individuals. Read here.

“We have to find business structures that meaningfully place people first and upend the practice of concentrating decision-making power and money in the hands of administrative leadership while undercompensating and disenfranchising the majority of workers,” wrote Arianna Gass and Daniel Park on a worker cooperative…

“Trust-based philanthropy encourages funders to adopt a set of values that include leading with trust, centering relationships, collaborating with humility and curiosity, redistributing power, and working for systemic equity,” wrote Melinda Tuan, managing director of Fund for Shared Insight, in a recent article published by the Center for Effective Philanthropy…

The Creative Economy Revitalization Act (CERA), a bill to authorize and appropriate a $300 million modern WPA/CETA program for creative workers, was recently submitted to the clerk in the House…