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Barry Hessenius and Arlene Goldbard have launched a week-long “blogfest” around the theme of art and political power. From Arlene Goldbard:
Grantmakers for Effective Organizations has published a field-wide survey of 755 staffed grantmaking foundations in the U.S., conducted by TCC Group. In light of the global economic downturn, Is Grantmaking Getting Smarter? builds on a similar study conducted in 2008 to highlight some of the shifts in grantmaking and what they mean for supporting resilience in the nonprofit sector.
The guidelines for the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Artist Residency Program are now available online. The program is designed to support artists and organizations with annual income of at least $300,000 to work together to increase demand for jazz, theatre and/or contemporary dance. These residencies are not designed to support creative time or the creation of new work as the primary residency goal.
AFTA’s Animating Democracy program has a new website. You can check it out at animatingdemocracy.org.
Scott Walters, director of the Center for Rural Arts Development and Leadership Education, writes for Huffington Post:
To commemorate its 40th anniversary, Funders for LGBTQ Issues has produced a historical overview of the history of LGBTQ philanthropy. The document is rich with data, including annual reports of US-based foundation funding, along with narrative passages describing highlights in the movement of LGBTQ philanthropy.
Arts organizations are looking for ways to develop their audiences. What works? What doesn’t? And how can successes be sustained? Building Arts Organizations that Build Audiences is a new report documenting a June 2011 Wallace conference of foundation-supported arts groups, marketing mavens, researchers and others, provides some potential answers, including encouraging organization-wide learning.
From the report:
Grantmakers in the Arts (GIA), a national association of private, public and nonprofit arts funders, has for some years had a goal of advocacy and policy development. This week, GIA launches the Arts Education Funders Coalition to specifically identify and advocate for arts in federal education policies. GIA has contracted with the Penn Hill Group, an experienced education policy firm in Washington DC to guide us in this work.
The questions might be “why are grantmakers doing this?” and “why federal education policy?”