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As part of an upcoming Thought Leader Forum titled Every School, Every Child, I was asked by Janet Brown, CEO of Grantmakers in the Arts, to spend some time with their newly released report Foundation Funding for Arts Education: An Update on Foundation Trends by Steven Lawrence, director of research, and Reina Mukai, research manager, both from the Foundation Center.
From Colleen Dilen at her blog Know Your Own Bone:
Personalization has been an increasing and unrelenting theme in much of the data collected regarding visitor-serving organizationsand it is begging for more attention in the world of cultural centers. Typically, conversations about personalization within these institutions are interpreted as a need for crowd-sourced exhibits/programs or more creative, online initiatives. And those can be excellent ways to actively incorporate personalization into an engagement strategy! What’s decidedly NOT excellent is assuming that personalization doesn’t affect nearly everything in regard to operations and engagement these days.
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Conference sessions are developed by the conference committee and preconference committees, and via proposals from members during the open submission period. These 60-, 75-, and 90-minute sessions are intended to be expository in nature and include at least 30% of session time for interactive participation by attendees. Off-site sessions are 90-minute sessions hosted at arts-related venues outside the hotel.
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Key Findings
Jeff Chang. 2014, 403 pages, St. Martin’s Press, New York, NY
Capitalization has been a hot topic in the arts funding community — and in these very pages — in recent years. Funders and cultural organizations alike are increasingly invested in the capital structures that undergird a vibrant cultural sector. Driven by a shared desire to increase artistic vitality in the Greater Boston area, two GIA members — the Barr Foundation and The Klarman Family Foundation — are taking a closer look at how capitalization supports their grantees’ ability to both take and manage risk.
Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.
— Benjamin Franklin
— Benjamin Franklin
These are the sooty days and nights of fire, ashes and displacement. The aftermath of loss is reassessment and ultimately, response. We artists — poets, musicians, painters, photographers, craftspeople, writers, graphic designers, actors, sculptors, singers — possess the skills that can unpack the events and emotions brought forward by the devastating inferno of 2007. Our skills will also help us imagine a new San Diego. Our creative response to this tragedy serves neighbors, but our colleagues, students, and ourselves as well. We have not suffered more than others. Instead we suffer in league with our fellow San Diegans. We must help them cope, recover and flourish anew.
A Grantmakers in the Arts Racial Equity Forum
Center for Civil and Human Rights, Atlanta, Georgia
Tuesday, June 2, 2015
Center for Civil and Human Rights, Atlanta, Georgia
Tuesday, June 2, 2015