The newly released Monument Lab’s audit of the United States' commemorative landscape, in partnership with the Mellon Foundation, answers important questions like: "Who are the 50 individuals most frequently represented by a public monument in the US? What percentage of those 50 are white and male? How many are women? And what are the dynamics that helped shape who is—and who is not—on that list?".
Grantmakers in the Arts
by Carmen Graciela Díaz
For the month of October, GIA’s photo banner features work supported by The CIRI Foundation.
by Carmen Graciela Díaz in Social Justice, Racial Equity
Trish Adobea Tchume writes in Nonprofit Wakanda about four frameworks for living liberation "everywhere I am and everywhere I go": transformative organizing, just transition, creating liberated zones, and "making myself 'Politically at home'”.
by Carmen Graciela Díaz in Philanthropic practice
As part of The Redford Center's investments in storytelling strategies that respond to the urgency of today’s crises, the center introduced a new category of impact grants as part of their expanded grantmaking strategy.
by Carmen Graciela Díaz in Racial Equity
Rooted in Vibrant Communities (RVC) will host a webinar on October 21 about equitable grantmaking and steps grantmakers can take to meaningfully address systemic injustice and turn their goals and values into actionable strategies.
by Carmen Graciela Díaz in Public Policy & Advocacy
A blog post published by the Wallace Foundation explains "Five Things State and District Leaders Need to Know Now" about the American Rescue Plan, the federal government’s third major COVID-19 relief bill that "provides nearly $2 trillion to support the nation’s efforts to reopen and recover from the coronavirus pandemic. Included is more than $126 billion for K-12 schools and additional funding for early childhood and higher education."
by Carmen Graciela Díaz in Philanthropic practice
A new toolkit, "The Arts Organizations at a Crossroads Toolkit: Managing transitions and preserving assets," published by the National Coalition for Arts’ Preparedness and Emergency Response (NCAPER), seeks to guide arts leaders through significant transitions they are likely to face during their organization’s life: structural shifts, loss of key staff/leadership, and creation of artistic and physical assets which deserve preserving.
by Carmen Graciela Díaz in Community Arts
A Hyperallergic article discusses how Julia Weist, one of four 2019–2020 New York City’s Department of Cultural Affairs's Public Artists in Residence, was paired with the Department of Records and Information Services (DORIS) and in doing so, "she dedicated herself to parsing the relationship between the city and its artists as documented in these vast municipal archives."