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The GIA Library is an information hub that includes articles, research reports, and other materials covering a wide variety of topics relevant to the arts and arts funding. These resources are made available free to members and non-members of GIA. Users can search by keyword or browse by category for materials to use in research and self-directed learning. Current arts philanthropy news items are available separately in our news feed - News from the Field.
Grantmakers in the Arts (GIA) is a national community of practice of arts grantmakers. GIA holds racial equity as a core value. GIA identifies philanthropic practices that may be ineffective or even harmful to artists and arts organizations from African, Latine, Asian, Arab, and Native American (ALAANA) communities/communities of color. GIA engages in critical analysis of and education about these practices with our members. GIA challenges myths that have informed these practices. GIA shares alternative practices from and with our members.
Grantmakers in the Arts provides leadership and service that advances the use of philanthropic and governmental resources to support the growth of arts and culture. As a professional association of funders, GIA exhibits leadership by working with our members to define better practice in the field of racial equity. Racial equity is a core value of the organization, and the most popular programmatic offering for those in the arts and culture sector in our online, conference programming, workshops, and other outputs.
Specific themes of our racial equity programming include:
Grantmakers in the Arts presents our Racial Equity Theory of Transformation as an articulation of our values as a jumping-off point for experiments in changing grantmaking practice – not as a definitive position that never changes. Please use this to inform your work, even if that includes critiquing and refuting elements of the theory.
"More than a year after the police killing of George Floyd and the avalanche of donations toward racial-equity initiatives that followed, the actual gift amounts and their destinations remain largely unknown, complicating efforts to gauge the effectiveness of the donations and their recipients," reads an article published by The Chronicle of Philanthropy.
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In his recent blog post, Backlash: A Sharp Right Turn by a Philanthropy Member Organization, Phil Buchanan, president of Center for Effective Philanthropy, calls out the current critique of pro-BIPOC philanthropy.
E. San San Wong, Barr Foundation program director and GIA Board of Directors alumni, wrote recently a piece on why centering racial equity is necessary for achieving Barr’s Arts & Creativity program goals.