Philanthropic practice

Trustee Participation in the Annual GIA Conference

March 26, 2015 by giarts-ts-admin

The annual GIA conference brings us, in our respective roles as foundation founder-trustee and staff, inspiration for the work of the year ahead, highlights new developments and trends in the arts and funding, challenges conventional thinking, and provides opportunities to exchange ideas with our peers. It is a true highlight of the year for our work as arts funders, and we think it could be for other trustees as well.

March 21, 2015 by giarts-ts-admin

The opportunities to connect communities through culture and to use that cultural engagement to educate one another are simultaneously compelling and challenging to cultural foundations and philanthropists. Recent reports and research provide strong arguments and preliminary insights into ways that culture can advance engagement across boundaries, both geographic and societal. But the most challenging efforts may be those intended to connect the United States to Muslim populations abroad.

February 5, 2015 by giarts-ts-admin

February 2015, 31 pages. TDC, 31 Milk Street, Suite 310, Boston, Massachusetts, 02109. (617) 728-9151, www.tdcorp.org.

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October 20, 2014 by giarts-ts-admin

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Redefining Expectations for Place-based Philanthropy (10.2 Mb)

This article discusses how The California Endowment has used a midcourse strategic review to refine Building Healthy Communities, aiming to provide insight for other place-based initiatives and to add to the body of knowledge about how to support transformative community change.

September 25, 2014 by giarts-ts-admin

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Critical Steps Toward Capital Health in the Cultural Sector (61 Kb)

GIA’s National Capitalization Project

September 25, 2014 by giarts-ts-admin

The full version of this report is available here

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Valuing Labor in the Arts: A Gathering

September 25, 2014 by giarts-ts-admin

The struggle to ensure that art work is recognized as real work and compensated accordingly is an essential one, and it continues through the efforts of art collectives and organizations, the actions of artists, and countless individual decisions to accept or reject engrossing but unpaid jobs.

— Elyse Mallouk, “On Laboring for Love”

The Next Cultural Data Decade

September 23, 2014 by giarts-ts-admin

The Cultural Data Project (CDP) was launched in fall 2004 as a statewide, web-based data collection system for arts and cultural organizations by a group of Pennsylvania grantmakers and arts advocates, including the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance, the Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council, the Heinz Endowments, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, The Pew Charitable Trusts (Pew), The Pittsburgh Foundation, and the William Penn Foundation.

June 30, 2014 by giarts-ts-admin

Community Partnership for Arts and Culture. 2014, 88 pages, Community Partnership for Arts and Culture, Cleveland, Ohio

Pigeons on the Grass Alas

June 30, 2014 by giarts-ts-admin

The following is an excerpt from Pigeons on the Grass Alas: Contemporary Curators Talk about the Field, a publication of the Pew Charitable Trusts.

Pigeon Fancier Ingrid, what about you — for whom do you curate?