Register for August 18 Web Conference
Advancing Racial Equity in Arts Philanthropy will be presented on August 18. Maurine Knighton, who is senior vice president for grantmaking at the Nathan Cummings Foundation as well as chair of the GIA Racial Equity Board Committee, will begin this session by sharing what GIA has been and is working on towards racial equity in arts philanthropy. Kelly Brown, director of the D5 Coalition, will then discuss the coalition’s research on diversity, equity, and inclusiveness in philanthropy and identify areas where the field of philanthropy is still lagging.
Summer 2015 Reader is Online
The Summer 2015 edition of GIA Reader is now available from the GIA online library. You can find articles from Richard Kessler, Margaret Hasse, Judi Jennings and Denise Brown, and Margery Pabst Steinmetz and many others.
Claudia Rankine To Speak to LA Conference
The Tuesday Luncheon Plenary of the GIA 2015 Conference will feature poet Claudia Rankine. She will read from her award-winning book, Citizen: An American Lyric, and discuss her motivations and societal inspirations.
Register for the conference today!
Register for the conference today!
Allyson Esposito, a veteran arts and philanthropy advocate, has been hired as the new Director of Arts & Culture for the Boston Foundation. Esposito comes to Boston from the City of Chicago, where since 2012 she has served as director of the city’s Cultural Grants Program in the Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events…
Last week the House took up H.R. 5, the Student Success Act, for the second time after the bill was pulled from the floor in February due to lack of votes. While none of the amendments were related to arts education or our AEFC agenda, the House bill does include references to arts education as part of the local block grant in Title I and in Title II with regard to professional development…
