Funding Research

Bush says U.S. will rejoin UNESCO

In a speech September 12 to the United Nations General Assembly urging action on Iraq, President Bush announced that the United States would return to the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). In making the announcement the President said, "This organization has been reformed, and America will participate fully in its mission to advance human rights, tolerance and learning."

June 2002, 350 pages, Basic Books, 387 Park Avenue South, New York, NY 10016-8810, Creative Class.

September 11 and Beyond
The following is excerpted from a March 2002 interview with Susan Beresford (president, Ford Foundation) that is included in September 11: Perspectives from the Field of Philanthropy, published August 2002 by the Foundation Center, 79 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10003, 212-620-4230. It is published by permission of the Foundation Center.

FC: It was common in the weeks after 9/11 to hear people say that the attacks had changed everything. Did September 11 change everything?

The theme of education in the arts can be found throughout GIA's programs. The role that the arts can play in education is one of four primary themes that will be explored at our 2002 conference, Creative Connections; and the "Bookmarks" column in this issue of the Reader concentrates on "Arts Education Resources on the Web". The following two articles take a look at recent research, specifically research that explores the connections between education in the arts and student learning in other realms.The theme of education in the arts can be found throughout GIA's programs.

Spring 2002, 43 pages. Surdna Foundation, 330 Madison Avenue, 30th floor, New York, NY 10017-5001, 212-557-0010, powerfulvoices@surdna.org

In early 2001, Emc.Arts completed its two-volume review of five years of the Surdna Foundation's arts program grants with the catchy title, "Evaluation of the Surdna Foundation Arts Program: Investigation and Diagnostic Findings." This spring, Surdna did us all a service by providing a useful distillation of its findings in an economical, easy-to-read report, Powerful Voices

2001, 139 pages including a bibliography. Stagewise Enterprises, Inc., 1160 Tonkawa Road, Suite 15, Long Lake, MN 55356.

Have you ever been frustrated by the way in which the abstract terms "capacity" and "capacity building" get tossed around in the nonprofit conversational world, wondering what exactly the speaker means? Then this book is for you.

2002, 60 pages, including appendices and bibliography. Commissioned by the New York State Council on the Arts and published in cooperation with Bright Hill Press.

2002, double-sided poster/brochure. The McKnight Foundation, 600 TCF Tower, 121 South 8th Street, Minneapolis, MN 55402, (612) 333-4220.

July 2002, 48 pages. The Canadian Conference of the Arts, in collaboration with the Cultural Human Resources Council. CCA, 804-130 Albert St., Ottawa, Ontario K1P 5G4 Canada, 613-238-3561.

2002, 368 pages with 322 illustrations. The Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation, 830 N. Tejon Street, Suite 120, Colorado Springs, CO 80903, (719) 635-3220

The Space Program was the first chance I had to entertain the possibility that a life in art might be possible.
— Alison Moritsugu