501(c)(3) non profit grantmaker

August 31, 2007 by giarts-ts-admin

2007, 223 pages. The Foundation Center, 79 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10003.

In 2006, for its fiftieth anniversary, the Foundation Center's online resource, Philanthropy News Digest, conducted fifteen inter-views with leaders in philanthropy. This book is the collection of those interviews, compiled with an introduction by former GIA board member James Allen Smith

Stanford Conversations in Philanthropy

August 31, 2007 by giarts-ts-admin

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

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

The Changing Place of the 501(c)(3)

August 31, 2007 by giarts-ts-admin

Last year AEA Consulting developed the working paper “Critical Issues Facing the Arts in California” for the James Irvine Foundation. Since its release, the report has generated extensive conversations and responses, both within and beyond California. GIA invited Adrian Ellis, principal of AEA Consulting, to offer further thoughts on the current state of the arts in the United States.

August 31, 2007 by giarts-ts-admin

Nonprofit organizations face a growing challenge of identifying sufficient numbers of future leaders and passing on leadership responsibilities. For a story about the needs of emerging leaders, we approached Alvin Warren, a young tribal leader and lieutenant governor of Santa Clara Pueblo, who played a seminal role in his Pueblo's success at recovering part of its ancestral land. Many funders who are concerned about the challenge of developing future leaders are addressing it by supporting workshops, training, and coaching.

Angels in the American Theater

August 31, 2007 by giarts-ts-admin

2007, 304 pages. Southern Illinois University Press, 1915 University Press Drive, SIUC Mail Code 6806, Carbondale, IL 62901, 618-453-2281, www.siuc.edu

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

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

Singing Our Praises

July 31, 2007 by giarts-ts-admin

2004, 171 pages. Commissioned by Association of Performing Arts Presenters, Washington, D.C. 20063.

Stirring the Pot a Little

July 31, 2007 by giarts-ts-admin

When Kathy Freshley (The Meyer Foundation), Marian Godfrey (The Pew Charitable Trusts), and Janet Sarbaugh (Heinz Endowments) planned a roundtable discussion, "General Operating Support: Making It Strategic," for GIA's 2006 annual conference in Boston they imagined that they would greet a small, if passionate, group of familiar GIA members that Wednesday at 8 a.m. Instead, the session turned out to be one of the conference's true dark-horse surprises. Over fifty people showed up!