ArtsReady, a national initiative of South Arts, is a new readiness, response, and recovery Web-based platform designed to help ensure post-crisis business continuity for arts organizations. The online tool will be unveiled to the arts community nationwide via a free webcast on Thursday, September 15 at 1:00pm EST.
Grantmakers in the Arts
September 15, 2011 by Steve
September 14, 2011 by Steve
While the Northeast, Vermont in particular, picks up the pieces in the aftermath of tremendous flash floods brought on by the former tropical storm Irene, remember that CERF+ Artists' Emergency Resources, an organization dedicated to helping Artists recover from disasters (and an organization itself based in Vermont) continues its good work. You can see the CERF+ Irene response page here.
Likewise, here's a blog post from Stuart Comstock-Gay, president and CEO of Vermont Community Foundation:
The Special and Urgent Needs Fund: Irene Recovery will support nonprofit organizations that lost facilities and materials at a time when their services were needed most. Not only is Vermont’s nonprofit sector particularly large—it makes up 18 percent of our state’s gross product—it also supports our communities and basic infrastructure.
September 14, 2011 by Steve
From Allison Fine in The Chronicle of Philanthropy:
September 14, 2011 by Steve
From Mark Slavkin at ARTSBlog:
September 13, 2011 by Steve
From DA Morales at Tucson Citizen:
A delegation of more than 50 acclaimed writers, visual artists, and filmmakers will gather in Tucson and Phoenix, Arizona September 10-16 to kick off a major national arts-based campaign challenging punitive, anti-immigrant laws and longstanding federal immigration policies.
September 13, 2011 by Steve
From Barbara Jepson at The Wall Street Journal:
Is this merely a lull in a continuing trend? Or are we seeing the last gasp of major performing-arts-center construction for a while? Many of the cities that wanted better halls have completed them. And reports of economic distress among these new venues—which prompted the University of Chicago to study cultural infrastructure in the U.S.—have caused other communities to think twice before jumping on the bandwagon. “Local governments are experiencing difficulties,” says Paul Scarbrough, acoustician for The Smith Center, “and the philanthropic community is sitting on the sidelines, wondering if they'll be asked to support these buildings down the road.”
September 13, 2011 by Janet
Equity is a complex topic with many interpretations. We are talking a great deal about it these days at Grantmakers in the Arts (GIA.) It is a major theme of the upcoming GIA conference in San Francisco, the focus of a new publication by the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy (NCRP) for which GIA served in an advisory capacity, the topic of several articles in our upcoming Reader and the subject of a GIA Thought Leader Forum.
September 12, 2011 by Steve
From Diep Tran at American Theatre Magazine:
Why art? Or, more specifically, why theater? Especially in the face of great tragedy, what can art do to help heal the wounded or to bring everything back to normal? On the cusp of the 10th anniversary of September 11th, I was looking through a selection of plays that were being mounted to commemorate the day and what happened after.