Randy Engstrom Joins GIA Board
GIA welcomes Randy Engstrom as the newest member of our board of directors. Randy is the director of the Office of Arts & Culture for the City of Seattle and brings an extensive background of arts and community development leadership. You can read his bio on the GIA Board page.
Call for Submissions: GIA 2016 Conference
Grantmakers in the Arts is now accepting session proposals for the GIA 2016 Conference in Saint Paul, October 16-19. GIA Members can outline their idea(s) and submit them via an online form. Deadline for submissions is Wednesday, March 23.
Submit your proposal online.
Submit your proposal online.
March 29 Web Conference: Building Collective Capital
The next GIA Web Conference, Building Collective Capital: A Funders Collaborative Approach to Capitalization, will be held on Tuesday, March 29 at 2pm EDT / 11am PDT. Tere Romo from the San Francisco Foundation and Shelley Trott from the Kenneth Rainin Foundation will present a process undertaken by program officers from family, corporate, and community foundations as well as a city arts commission towards a unified and complementary approach to capitalization.
Related material from the GIA archive: You may also be interested in a 2014 GIA Reader article by Rebecca Thomas and Holly Sidford, “Critical Steps toward Capital Health in the Cultural Sector.”
The April web conference will be Building a Racially Diverse Organization: A Case Study on Recruiting and Retaining ALAANA Staff.
Related material from the GIA archive: You may also be interested in a 2014 GIA Reader article by Rebecca Thomas and Holly Sidford, “Critical Steps toward Capital Health in the Cultural Sector.”
The April web conference will be Building a Racially Diverse Organization: A Case Study on Recruiting and Retaining ALAANA Staff.
Annual Member Survey Opens This Week
We want to hear from you! The annual GIA member survey opens tomorrow and closes March 31. Keep an eye on your inbox for the survey link.
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