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Hello GIA and thanks for welcoming me into your community! The Talk Back Series marks an important milestone for me — my very first blog post! This happens to be mildly ironic to me since I am neither an artist … Continue reading
Many organizations are joining the effort to aid the thousands of people who were affected by the enormous outbreak of tornados in late April. The Actors Fund has recently compiled a list of resources for artists who need help.
Culturelab is a joint initiative of leading arts consultants and the Cultural Policy Center at the University of Chicago, a nationally recognized interdisciplinary research center dedicated to informing policies that affect the arts, humanities, and cultural heritage. On April 29, Culturelab staged the Emerging Practice Seminar 2011, billed as a concerted effort to bring forward promising new practices in the cultural sector and transmit them to the field.
I was twenty-three when I arrived in San Francisco, fresh from assistant-directing at the Royal Court in London and eager to start my theater career. I was brimming over with enthusiasm, and maybe just a little hubris. Shortly thereafter, I founded Crowded Fire Theater Company and was full of plans for it to quickly become the next major regional theater.
It's as if you're putting together a dinner party in a [manner in which] you hope will generate a rich conversation.
— Melissa Franklin, director of the Pew Fellowships in the Arts
— Melissa Franklin, director of the Pew Fellowships in the Arts
This essay is an updated version of an address presented at the Grantmakers in the Arts annual meeting, October 11, 2008.
The presentation of the National Capitalization Project (NCP) engendered a robust discussion at the October 2010 GIA conference in Chicago. GIA heard a range of responses from attendees. While some were very positive — agreeing that capitalization principles are a critical consideration in grantmaking — others felt differently. They wondered whether a discussion of capitalization was only relevant to large foundations or to large arts institutions.
(4-11-2011) The Enviromental Grantmakers Association and the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, the Ford Foundation, and the United Nations Foundation would like to invite you to a Funders’ Roundtable on Rio + 20 on April 20th, 2011 from 10:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m., at the United Nations Headquarters in New York (address and room number will be communicated closer to the day).