May Webinar: Demographic Data Collection
The next GIA webinar, Demographic Data Collection: Understanding Who Benefits from our Funding Support, will be held on Tuesday, May 23 at 2:00pm EDT / 11:00am PDT. With increasing urgency, the field of arts philanthropy is investigating funding inequities and seeking remedies to longstanding practices and policies that have led to them. We understand that to make meaningful progress towards closing funding gaps requires gathering specific data that tell us who our grantees are and whom they are serving. Join Beth Tuttle from DataArts; Bronwyn Mauldin from Los Angeles County Arts Commission, a public funder; and Elizabeth Love from Houston Endowment, a private funder, as they discuss their approaches to collecting demographic data on grantees and their audiences.
Arts Funders Respond: Now Accepting Submissions
GIA’s new web resource, Arts Funders Respond, catalogs the work that arts funders are doing to address the needs of the arts community in the current political climate. GIA members are encouraged to send information about current and new programs, policies, and resources they have implemented around this topic. Please email materials to Monica Thomas at monica@giarts.org to be considered for inclusion on the website.
New from the GIA Reader: How to Invest in the Arts without Buying a Picasso
In an article in the latest issue of the GIA Reader, “How to Invest in the Arts without Buying a Picasso,” Laura Callanan of Upstart Co-Lab writes about the emergence of impact investing and how it can support the creative economy.
New GIA Members
GIA is pleased to introduce three new members that joined in April, Arts Council of Hillsborough County (Tampa, FL); William Davidson Foundation (Troy, MI); and Krupp Family Foundation (Boston, MA). Welcome!
The new federal spending bill would spare — and even slightly increase — funding for three arts-related agencies that President Donald Trump has proposed eliminating…
In a letter to friends and colleagues, Executive Director Rose Ann Cleveland of The Morris & Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation announced that she will retire at the end of October…
The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) has released its “report card” assessment of student learning and achievement in visual arts and music…
A new survey by Exponent Philanthropy shows the vast majority of its members (82%) expect the institution of philanthropy to play a more important role in society as a result of recent changes in Washington, DC…
