From Erinn Roos-Brown, writing for the ArtsFwd blog:
Grantmakers in the Arts
From Scott Cunningham, founder of the O, Miami festival, writing for Knight Arts blog:
Springboard for the Arts is getting the jump on the individual health insurance requirements that go into effect on January 1, 2014 as part of the continuing implementation of the Affordable Care Act. A crash course info page is now available with preliminary information.
Animating Democracy has a new Funder Portrait by Ann McQueen that profiles the East Bay Community Foundation from Oakland, CA. The portrait includes an audio interview with Diane Sanchez, Director of Community Investment at the East Bay Community Foundation as well as a report, “Weaving Artists into Community Fabric,” that investigates the foundation's arts grantmaking programs:
Robert Lynch writes for Huffington Post:
Roberto Bedoya's guest-blog post last month for the Engaging Matters blog raised questions that carried the discussion to other blogs, including a pair of great posts from Nina Simon from her Museum 2.0 blog and Clay Lord from his New Beans blog:
From Katie Koch for The Harvard Gazette:
Gladstone Payton posts to ARTSblog on the latest information regarding the effects of the sequester on arts and culture funding:
This sequester, totaling $85 billion, will reduce funding to almost all areas of domestic social programs by about 5 percent, which would mean about $7.3 million at the NEA.