The latest addition to the National Endowment for the Arts web site is a full section devoted to the Our Town Communities where you will find photos and more information about the 51 creative placemaking projects recently awarded NEA grants to support community development through the arts and design.
Grantmakers in the Arts
by Steve
Nonprofit arts organizations are invited to attend two webcastson Thursday, August 11 and Friday, August 12about funding opportunities through the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Office of Sustainable Housing and Communities (OSHC). OSHC recently issued two Notices of Funding Availability (NOFA) for their FY 2011 Community Challenge Grants Program ($95 million in grants available) and FY 2011 Sustainable Communities Regional Planning Grant Program ($28 million available).
by Steve
This week's beat is Fieldbuilding, and the second question posed to the participants is this:
by Steve
From Lisa Chiu and Suzanne Perry at The Chronicle of Philanthropy:
A new law to increase the debt-ceiling limit does not make any changes in the tax deduction that donors receive for making charitable gifts...
“We assume that the new committee will certainly consider the cap on deductions,” said Jason Lee, a lawyer for the Association of Fundraising Professionals, a trade group that is opposed to reducing the value of the charitable deduction. “So we’re working under the premise that we still have our work cut out for us.”
by Steve
From Robin Pogebrin in The New York Times:
Who knew that government funding for the arts would represent the kind of common ground where Republicans and Democrats could meet?
But when Governor Nikki Haley of South Carolina tried to zero out money for the arts in her state budget last month, both parties said no. The House and the Senate, both controlled by Republicans, voted to override the Republican governor’s veto of $1.9 million in funding for the South Carolina Arts Commission. The House vote was 105-8; the Senate 32-6.
by Janet
Sometimes the very ingredients that offered success in one political and economic climate become liabilities or less successful when politics and economics change. That’s what’s happened in the arts at the federal policy level. Fifty years ago, America was feeling pretty damn good about itself, post WWII boom had occurred, industry was skyrocketing and we were going to the moon. If we could do that, we, as a society, could do anything. This was the political outlook on American life in the early 60s.
by Tommer
Here's an amazing site that provides a great deal of information on cultural policy and cultural funding for 43 European countries.