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Tomorrow, December 11: GIA Web Conference, Set in Stone
Posted on December 10, 2012 by Abigail

Registration is still open for the next and final installment of GIA's 2012 Web Conference Series. Set in Stone: Building America's Next Generation of Arts Facilities, 1994-2008 will be presented by Carroll Joynes and Joanna Woronkowicz of the Cultural Policy Center, University of Chicago. The webinar begins tomorrow, December 11, at 11:00 PST, 2:00 EST.

GIA Web Conferences are open to everyone. They are free to members and $35 for nonmembers.

Teaching Artists and the Future of the Arts
Posted on December 6, 2012 by Steve

From Nick Rabkin writing for Huffington Post:

When students study the arts, they develop their abilities to be creative, plan, explain their thoughts, work together effectively, build theories, make predictions, create analogies, solve complex problems and assess their own work. These are commonly understood as “21st-century skills.” What's more, a growing body of research has also shown that arts education correlates strongly with basic competencies — literacy and numeracy — and a wide range of other positive outcomes for young people. The bottom line is that children who have more arts education do better in school and in life. Significantly, the correlation happens to be strongest for low-income youth, the students most often failed by our schools.
Announcing GCIR's New Interactive Data Map!
Posted on December 5, 2012 by Tommer

This easy-to-use, interactive data hub, presented by Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees, provides a demographic snapshot of the foreign-born population by county in the United States.

New Report from the Strategic National Arts Alumni Project (SNAAP)
Posted on December 4, 2012 by Tommer

This new report titled “Painting with Broader Strokes: Reassessing the Value of an Arts Degree" authored by SNAAP researchers Danielle Lindemann and Steven J. Tepper of Vanderbilt University and funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, focuses on the career paths of arts graduates and counters prevailing views on the value of a college education.

Does Size Matter? Find Out Now on the Animating Democracy Blog Salon
Posted on December 3, 2012 by Tommer

Animating Democracy’s blog salon, Does Size Matter?, will run December 3-7. Join 20 leaders in the field as they present diverse perspectives, questions, and ideas about increasing impact by scaling.

We Thought the L3C Went Away. Looks Like It's Back.
Posted on November 29, 2012 by Tommer

Michael DiFonzo discusses the the LC3 (Low-Profit Limited Liability Corporation)on HowlRound.   Video from a recent conference at Columbia University, L3C and the Arts: Understanding the Potential of Low-Profit Limited Liability Corporations, can also be seen online.

Looking at Nonprofit Fianance Fund's “Complete Capital” Approach
Posted on November 29, 2012 by Steve

Nonprofit Fianance Fund CEO Antony Bugg-Levine writes for Stanford Social Innovation Review on a new framework for Impact Investing:

The rise of the impact investment movement is poised to unlock substantial new capital for social purpose. Innovative nonprofits are already rethinking the way they do business and are going to heroic lengths to extract maximum impact from every dollar. And increasingly, we have the data and knowledge we need to tackle social ills.

But the ultimate contribution of impact investing, and similar innovations, will not come in the form of interesting investments or channeling grant money more efficiently. Instead, it will come by addressing two fundamental challenges of our moment: How will developed countries sustain a safety net in the wake of macroeconomic and demographic pressures? And how will developing countries ensure that economic growth is more equitably shared?

Creative Placemaking in the Blogosphere
Posted on November 28, 2012 by Tommer

There has been some thoughful discussion online on the Creative Placemaking front of late:

NYFA's Hurricane Emergency Relief Fund Accepting Applications
Posted on November 27, 2012 by Tommer

The application for the NYFA Emergency Relief Fund for artists in Connecticut, New Jersey and New York affected by Hurricane Sandy is now available. Visit www.nyfa.org or www.artspire.org for details.

The Story of Oregon's New Arts Tax
Posted on November 27, 2012 by Tommer

Barrty Johnson unpacks the long and complex story of Oregon's new arts education tax, and how the media got it all wrong.