Web Conference Today: Building Collective Capital

Today’s GIA Web Conference, Building Collective Capital: A Funders Collaborative Approach to Capitalization, will be held at 2pm EDT / 11am PDT. Tere Romo from the San Francisco Foundation and Shelley Trott from the Kenneth Rainin Foundation will present a process undertaken by program officers from family, corporate, and community foundations as well as a city arts commission towards a unified and complementary approach to capitalization.

You can now register to attend the April web conference, Building a Racially Diverse Organization: A Case Study on Recruiting and Retaining ALAANA Staff.

The Passing of Claudine Brown

Grantmakers in the Arts mourns the loss of Claudine Brown, who passed away on March 17, 2016. Brown worked most recently as assistant secretary for education and access at the Smithsonian Institution and served on the GIA board from 1996 to 2001, including as board chair in 1999-2000. She also created the social justice working group whose efforts led to GIA’s racial equity initiative.

Read more online.

Request for Proposal: Racial Equity Research

GIA invites interested and qualified firms to submit a proposal to conduct quantitative and qualitative racial equity research. This research will examine current giving practices of GIA members to Asian, Latin@, African, Arab, and Native American (ALAANA) artists and arts organizations. Deadline for proposals is April 8.

Complete details are online.

New from the GIA Reader: Snapshot of Arts & Culture Funding Data

The latest issue of the GIA Reader features our annual Arts Funding Snapshot, with foundation data analysis from Steven Lawrence and Reina Mukai of Foundation Center.

View the full report.

The Canada Council, which provides funding to artists and cultural projects across the country, will see its annual budget of $182 million nearly doubled within five years, although it will see only $40 million extra this coming year…

The Arts Education Partnership, a national coalition of more than 100 education, arts, business, cultural, government and philanthropic organizations, has selected Jane Best as its new director…

A new report supported by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and WESTAF and written by Barry Hessenius examines the communications activities of arts organizations…