Funding Research

2004, 77 pages. Published by Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees, PO Box 1100, Sebastopol, CA, 95473-1100, 707-824-4374, info@gcir.org, www.gcir.org

During the 2002 Council on Foundations annual conference, Kent (Oz) C. Nelson, the former chairman and CEO of United Parcel Service, said that he believed that all giving, even corporate giving, should come "from the heart." Several people cheered; some groaned. But, Reatha Clark King, then president of the General Mills Foundation, remarked that finding a corporation's heart is the real problem.

March 2004, 40 pages. Published by The American Assembly, 475 Riverside Drive, Suite 456, New York, NY, 10115, 212- 870-3500, www.americanassembly.org

This summary of proceedings from the 104th American Assembly, organized by Alberta Arthurs and Sandra Gibson, focuses on the multiple ways the academy and the performing arts relate to and reinforce each other.

July 2004, 60 pages. Published by the National Endowment for the Arts, 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington DC, 20506, 202-682-5400, www.arts.endow.gov

Download pdf: http://www.nea.gov.pub/ReadingAtRisk.pdf

Recently, while sitting in a coffee shop in Chicago, I overheard a language that sounded familiar. Being a folklorist I'm sensitive to occupational language. You can blindfold me in front of conversations of cowboys or farmers and I will be able to pick out a number of things that distinguish their talk. And having a private language is not bad, it's a reality.

2004, 74 pages. Published by The Boston Foundation, 75 Arlington Street, Boston, MA, 02116, 617-338-1700, www.tbf.org

Download Report: www.tbf.org/tbfgen1.asp?id=1759

October 2003, 146 pages. Published by The Western States Arts Federation, 1743 Wazee St, Suite 300, Denver, CO, 80202, 303-607-9019, www.westaf.org

This book contains the proceedings from a symposium of the same name convened by WESTAF in October, 2003 that brought together practitioners, artists, and academics to discuss the opportunities and challenges facing state arts agencies.

Alternate ROOTS is a coalition of artists and cultural workers in the Southeastern USA; addressing racism and other oppressions has been integral to our mission for a long time. At our 2004 Annual Meeting this past August a panel of ROOTS' founding members discussed the function of ROOTS as a cultural continuation of the civil rights movement - beginning with our founding at the legendary Highlander Center in New Market, Tennessee.

Americans for the Arts

This unique study combines Dun & Bradstreet data (as of January 2004) and geo-economic analysis to quantify and map business activity in six creative industries: museum/collections; performing arts; visual/photography; film/radio/TV; design/publishing; and schools/services. Creative industry reports on major metropolitan areas are on the Web site and reports on each of 437 congressional districts are available by request. Custom reports on specific geographic areas are also available for a fee.

2004, 48 pages. Published by Independent Television Service, 501 York Street, San Francisco, CA 94110, 415-35-6 8383, itvs@itvs.org , www.itvs.org, and Center for Social Media, American University, 4400 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC, 20036-801, 202-885- 3107, socialmedia@american.edu, www.centerforsocialmedia.org