Capitalization and Nonprofit Financial Health Workshop
3-hour workshops: One for grantmakers and one for cultural organizations
Join GIA and Rebecca Thomas & Associates, with advice and counsel from Sage Crump, for Grantmakers in the Arts’ Capitalization and Nonprofit Financial Health Workshop online on June 11, 2025 from 10am-1pm PT/11am-2pm MT/12-3pm CT/1-4pm ET.
In these times of uncertainty, how do funders ensure cultural organizations survive and thrive? How can funders responsively assess and support the financial health of their applicants and grantees during rapidly changing circumstances? GIA’s workshop includes advice on how to fund responsively and equitably, and how to plan in times of uncertainty.
GIA’s workshop served nearly 500 arts funders and cultural organizations across the nation in 2024. The 2025 workshop will update and advise grantmakers and organizations on the financial health of our nation’s nonprofit cultural organizations during these times.
Join your fellow arts and culture grantmakers to discuss and plan the financial health of our field for the future.
The goals for the Capitalization and Nonprofit Financial Health Workshops are to:
- Elevate knowledge of capitalization for nonprofits and their funders
- Elevate the racialized impacts of under-capitalization and how to respond
- Provide shared vocabulary that granters and grantees use to inform and transform grantmaking and nonprofit financial practices
- Provide insights into having effective dialogues between funders and grantees
- Facilitate discussion with funders and nonprofits about their community’s capital drivers, their institutional values and practices, and the ways that each entity fits into the arts eco-system
- Create a greater sense of complementary practice and camaraderie for a stronger, healthier arts and culture ecosystem.
We have adapted our workshops from the in-person format to online. The workshops will be three hours.
2025 Workshops
Online workshop for Grantmakers: June 11, 2025 from 10am-1pm PT/11am-2pm MT/12-3pm CT/1-4pm ET. If this workshop is sold out, please email workshops@giarts.org to ask to be placed on a waiting list for upcoming workshops.
GIA charges those with the largest grantmaking budgets a higher fee so that we are able to secure the participation and perspectives of those with smaller budgets.
| Grantmaking budget | GIA members | Non-members |
|---|---|---|
| Up to $1,999,999 | $150 per participant | $200 per participant |
| Public Agencies | $150 per participant | $200 per participant |
| National Partners | $150 per participant | $200 per participant |
| $2,000,000 - $4,999,999 | $200 per participant | $250 per participant |
| $5,000,000 and above | $250 per participant | $300 per participant |
Attendees
Funder Session (3 hours) Arts funders, large and small, private and public, that are invested in the wellbeing of the nonprofit arts sector.
GIA also offers a version of this workshop for nonprofit cultural organizations so that they and their funders can all speak the same language regarding their financial health. Funders can sponsor an in-person or online workshop for their grantee organizations so they may access these insights for free. For more information on sponsoring a workshop for nonprofit cultural organizations, please contact workshops@giarts.org.
Instructors/Facilitators
Nationally recognized arts finance consultant, Rebecca Thomas of Rebecca Thomas & Associates (formerly with Nonprofit Finance Fund) and senior staff from Grantmakers in the Arts will lead the sessions.
Contact
For more information on format, timing and costs, contact workshops@giarts.org.