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I’m writing to share some thoughts on United Philanthropy Forum’s excellent 2020 Forum Virtual Conference, which brings together Philanthropy Serving Organizations (PSOs) to share examples of how we’re working to support, strengthen, and lead the grantmaking community.
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Grantmakers in the Arts (GIA) seeks a consulting partner. This consultant would work with GIA’s leaders and Capitalization consultant to help ensure that our Conversations on Capitalization and Community workshop explicitly identifies ways to support organizations that are by, for and about BIPOC communities, as well as organizations that reflect other oppressed groups such as people with disabilities.
Grantmakers in the Arts (GIA) seeks a consulting partner. This consultant would help our nation’s arts grantmaking community increasingly become investors in culture. The consultant would help GIA identify ways to support our members’ embrace of alternative funding models and new economic models.
GIA will engage a consultant who will conduct research to advise GIA how to program content related to how alternative funding models and new economies could serve as tools for our members to support culture and artists in a manner that is racially equitable.
By Sharnita C. Johnson and Randy Engstrom
When the novel coronavirus pandemic hit, like most people – and especially in my role as co-chair of the GIA Racial Equity Committee, with colleague Randy Engstrom, director at the City of Seattle Office of Arts and Culture – we agreed we wanted to say something to address the loss of life, ways of life, and the devastation the arts community was experiencing. While we literally work on opposite sides of the country, and in very different environments – Randy a public funder and me at a private foundation – we like most of our funding colleagues, sprang into action to get much needed resources to our grantee partners.
The coronavirus pandemic and the uprisings over police brutality and systemic racism have had a clear impact in communications in the philanthropic field, as a recent survey conducted by the Communications Network and Atlantic 57 has revealed.
When referring to issues of racial equity, Grantmakers in the Arts (GIA) uses the racial and ethnic identifiers African, Latinx, Asian, Arab, and Native American. GIA does not ask that anyone self-identify with or use any term other than ones they prefer. We use African, Latinx, Asian, Arab, Native American – represented using the acronym ALAANA – because we believe the term, “people of color,” conflates together entire groups of people and as a contrast to white.
As the coronavirus pandemic brought our city to a halt, The New York Community Trust and several philanthropic partners reached out to each other and quickly organized a powerful mobilization of funds to strengthen the city’s safety net.
The 18 lead partners created the NYC COVID-19 Response & Impact Fund to, in part, get urgently needed money to arts nonprofits whose survival was suddenly endangered. The needs across the city were enormous. But, because of our experience with previous catastrophic events such as September 11 and superstorm Sandy, we knew how we could respond: our grantmaking needed to be well-informed, precise, and go to where it would do the most good.