Family Foundation

August 31, 2007 by giarts-ts-admin

Center for Social Innovation, Stanford Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, 518 Memorial Way, Stanford, CA 94305

The Art of Community

August 31, 2007 by giarts-ts-admin

2006, 30 pages. Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees, P.O. Box 1100, Sebastopol, CA, 95473, 707-824-4374, www.gcir.org

Taking Philanthropy Seriously

August 31, 2007 by giarts-ts-admin

2006, 254 pages. Indiana University Press, 601 North Morton Street, Bloomington, IN 47404, iupress.indiana.edu

Arts and Culture in the Metropolis

August 31, 2007 by giarts-ts-admin

2007, 102 pages. RAND Corporation, 1776 Main Street, P.O. Box 2138, Santa Monica, CA 90407, 310-451-7002, www.rand.org

A Profession of Philanthropy

August 31, 2007 by giarts-ts-admin

Our Taos Journey essays depart by looking back at philanthropy's recent past. As the field has become more formalized as a profession, it also has attracted exposés and critiques. Many have called for greater accountability, transparency, and proof of effectiveness. While the critique is worthy and perhaps overdue, historian, philanthropist, and former GIA board member James Allen Smith calls for a deeper, shared understanding of professionalism.

Arts and Economic Prosperity III

August 31, 2007 by giarts-ts-admin

2007, Americans for the Arts, 1000 Vermont Avenue, NW, 6th Floor, Washington, DC 20005, 202-371-2830, www.americansforthearts.org

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Cultural Donors Were Different

August 31, 2007 by giarts-ts-admin

Another project underway for historian Jim Smith, author of the preceding “A Profession of Philanthropy,” is a new piece, commissioned by the Aspen Institute, that examines the ways that foundation giving to arts and culture is fundamentally different from giving to other fields. We coaxed Jim to contribute a brief preview of this line of inquiry. Excerpts from this nascent work in progress have been woven together by Jim and Anne Focke into this brief, provocative piece.

A Call to Action

August 31, 2007 by giarts-ts-admin

2007, 24 pages. National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy, 2001 S Street NW, Suite 620, Washington, D.C. 20009, 202-387-9177, www.ncrp.org

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Culture and Class

August 31, 2007 by giarts-ts-admin

As we were recruiting writers for this issue of the Reader, we learned that John Rockwell was retiring from his position as arts critic for The New York Times. It was all too tempting to ask Rockwell to reflect on the arts as he has chronicled them through his career. His response was to address the relationship between culture and classboth in history and in the presentraising questions about patronage and access, and the differences across classes in the kinds of art that are supported and accepted.

Compounding Impact

August 31, 2007 by giarts-ts-admin

2007, 54 pages. FSG Social Impact Advisors, 20 Park Plaza, Suite 320, Boston, MA 02116, 617-357-4000

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