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Video from LA Conference Keynote: Claudia Rankine
Claudia Rankine at GIA 2015 Conference
Poet Claudia Rankine presented the keynote at the Tuesday Luncheon Plenary of the GIA 2015 Conference in Los Angeles. You can now watch the presentation on the GIA YouTube Channel.
New from the GIA Reader: Investing in Change
GIA Reader, Vol. 26, No. 3 (Fall 2015)
In an article from the latest issue of GIA Reader, Rebecca Thomas — a long-time partner with GIA’s Capitalization Initiative — lays out some key lessons in change capital for grantmakers in Investing in Change: Ten Lessons for Cultural Grantmakers.
GIA Welcomes New and Renewing Board Members for 2016
We are pleased that the GIA membership has voted to elect the following individuals to the GIA board for a first and second term.

New board members joining us January 1, 2016 include:
  • Anita Contini, Bloomberg Philanthropies
  • Susan Feder, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
  • Tatiana Hernandez, Hemera Foundation
  • Arleta Little, McKnight Foundation
  • Ted Russell, James Irvine Foundation
Current board members elected for a second term include:
  • T. Lulani Arquette, Native Arts & Cultures Foundation
  • Ken Grossinger, CrossCurrents Foundation
  • Glyn Northington, Nonprofits Assistance Fund
  • F. Javier Torres, ArtPlace America
Windgate Charitable Foundation
News from the Field
NYC Looks at Diversity of Arts Groups
An effort to measure whether New York City’s cultural organizations reflect the famously diverse metropolis they serve has focused fresh attention on a concern that has bedeviled some in the arts world for years…
2016 Joyce Awards Announced
Four collaborations between artists of color and cultural organizations in Chicago, Detroit and the Twin Cities have each won $50,000 from the Joyce Foundation’s annual Joyce Awards competition for 2016…
President Signs ESEA Rewrite, Giving States, Districts Bigger Say on Policy
For the past quarter century, federal education policy has been moving in one direction: toward standards-based education redesign, a greater reliance on standardized tests, and bigger role for Washington when it comes to holding schools accountable for student results…

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