Introducing Convening Keynotes: Lin-Manuel and Luis Miranda
We’re excited to announce the closing keynote of the 2020 GIA Virtual Convening, Power, Practice, Resilience: Remix’d will be Lin-Manuel Miranda – Pulitzer Prize, Grammy, Emmy, and Tony award-winning composer, lyricist, and actor – and Luis Miranda – founding partner of The MirRam Group, a government affairs, lobbying, and political consulting firm in New York City and the founding president of the Hispanic Federation. Learn more about the Miranda Family and the Flamboyan Arts Fund.
Register for the 2020 GIA Convening here.
Register for the 2020 GIA Convening here.
October’s Member Spotlight: Wallace Foundation
The Wallace Foundation is GIA’s Member Spotlight for the month of October. Read about the foundation’s work here.
Webinar Alert! “Arts and Health: Driving us towards stronger communities”
Join GIA’s upcoming webinar on October 27, 2pm EDT/11am PDT in which David Fakunle (DiscoverME/RecoverME), Tasha Golden artist (Johns Hopkins Medicine), and Jamie Hand (ArtPlace America), authors of the white paper on the Creating Healthy Communities: Arts + Public Health in America initiative, will share the findings of the field scan, the strength of their cross-sector collaboration, and suggestions for what arts and culture funders should consider when funding at the intersection of arts and health in 2020. Details and registration here.
From the GIA Reader
In “Relationship of Data and Funder Practice: Supporting individual artists with an equity lens,” part of the Summer 2020 issue of the GIA Reader (Volume 31, No. 2), the GIA Support for Individual Artists Committee discusses the transformation of a survey idea into a research project that delves into data collection, how grantmakers are using data, where the data is coming from, and how it can be instrumentalized to create gateways toward equity, diversity, and inclusion. Click to read.
A recent report from Candid and the Center for Disaster Philanthropy looks at the philanthropic dollars that were distributed for COVID-19 in the first half of 2020…
“Black media—and my expertise is in Black media—is an endangered species. If there’s not a wholesale investment in reviving and supporting and providing resources to Black-owned media, it will go away”…
An article in Nonprofit Quarterly discusses President Donald Trump’s Executive Order on Combating Race and Sex Stereotyping, explains “how the EO and related actions of the government are bigger and far worse—and why nonprofits need to pay attention”…
This piece by Inside Philanthropy’s Mike Scutari sheds light on how Bonfils-Stanton Foundation “boosted annual support for arts organizations serving communities of color by 670% since 2013”…
