Many of the feature articles in this issue offer tools for responding to GIA Executive Director Janet Brown's call to speak up, to not sit silently in the back but to stand up and illustrate or make the case for why arts and culture matters.
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In the past two years, several prominent foundations at national, regional, and local levels have appointed new presidents. Such leadership transitions are likely to increase in the years ahead in keeping with the larger generational shift in the nonprofit sector. Very few of the new foundation leaders are likely to come from the arts sector, and many will have had little direct experience with our field.
In The Place of the Arts in Multi-focus Foundations, Bruce Sievers writes that the rationale for supporting both the arts and the nonprofit sector as a whole is integrally linked to their capacity to advance pluralism, promote voluntary action, accommodate diversity, and champion individual visions of the public good. “Civil society,” Sievers notes, is increasingly the accepted concept to describe this sphere of social action.
2008, 64 pages. Arts Council England, 14 Great Peter Street, London SW1P 3NQ, UK, 0845-300-6590, www.artscouncil.org.uk
http://www.artscouncil.org.uk/documents/publications/
phpvMEmeh.pdf
2009, 31 pages. Grantmakers for Education, 720 SW Washington Street, Suite 605, Portland, OR, 97205, 503-595-2100, www.edfunders.org
http://www.edfunders.org/downloads/GFEReports/
SchoolLeadershipChallenge.pdf
2008, 327 pages.
The more things change, the more they remain the same.
Jean Baptiste Alphonse Karr, 1849 French critic and writer
2008, 33 pages. CompassPoint Nonprofit Services, 731 Market Street, Suite 200, San Francisco, CA, 94103, (415) 541-9000, www.compasspoint.org
http://www.meyerfoundation.org/downloads/ready_to_lead/ReadytoLead2008.pdf
“What are we doing to cultivate new generations of arts activistsartists, arts managers and arts philanthropers?” This questionoften asked and long massagedhas an equal number of answers to the individuals attempting to answer it. Under the broader umbrella of inspiring young people to make a differencethrough the arts or otherwiseDo Something is an organization that is effectively answering that question with meaningful action.
Between 2006 and 2008, the Social Impact of the Arts Project, a research group at the University of Pennsylvania (SIAP), collaborated with The Reinvestment Fund (TRF), a community development financial institution, on an investigation of the creative sector's potential contribution to neighborhood economic and community development.
Jaime Cortez was an arts and culture fellow at the San Francisco Foundation for two years. At the end of his fellowship, he and the other outgoing fellows were asked to read a prepared farewell statement to the board and staff of the foundation. Following is his closing presentation, given on July 9, 2008.