The board of Grantmakers in the Arts (GIA) is committed to moving forward on its pursuit of racial equity in arts grantmaking with full transparency, sharing our learning with the field as we progress. Maurine Knighton, chair of the GIA board committee on racial equity, and Glyn Northington, GIA racial equity board committee member, will discuss why GIA pursues racial equity as an organizational priority and share its progress on recent and current internal and external activities around advancing racial equity in arts philanthropy. The presenters will report on the process GIA underwent to complete an internal racial equity audit, the status of GIA's research project on current levels of support to ALAANA (African, Latin@, Asian, Arab, and Native American) artists and arts organizations, and the possible development of a workshop on bringing racial equity conversations to funders at the local level. Janet Brown, GIA President & CEO, will moderate the session.