[PASSED] Fair Funding Access: How Funders Are Measuring What Matters

Join your grantmaker peers on Tuesday, August 12 at 2pm ET/11am PT for Fair Funding Access, a GIA webinar focused on a collaborative effort to strengthen accessibility and accountability in arts grantmaking. Fair Funding Access (FFA) is a peer-led initiative supporting funders in examining their grantmaking structures, developing shared measures of fairness, and advancing a data-informed approach to funding. 

This session will introduce the goals and tools of the FFA project, including a flexible framework to assess and improve fairness in your arts grants. Attendees will hear directly from peers who have participated in the initiative and reflect on how evolving contexts call for new ways of measuring and practicing grantmaking. 

This webinar will not be recorded. 

Speakers include: 

• Eddie Torres and Nadia Elokdah, Grantmakers in the Arts 
• Suzanne Callahan, Callahan Consulting for the Arts 
• Maurine Knighton, Doris Duke Foundation  
• Past grantmaker participants of Fair Funding Access, including Ti Wilhelm, Opportunity Fund and Eleanor Savage, Jerome Foundation

Through Fair Funding Access (FFA), GIA launches peer dialogue and measurement tools to address fair funding access in this moment.  The project will introduce a system for measuring the fairness of arts funders’ grantmaking. The goals of FFA are for funders to:  

• Establish an open peer forum where members can discuss fairness in funding decisions.  In this time of relative uncertainty, through joining the FFA forum, members can openly consider and interpret how changing contexts influence their own commitment to accountability in measuring the impact of their funding.   

• Move from general impressions of progress to concrete data about the degree to which our grant portfolios are making progress in advancing fair access to funding.  

• Augment our grants data with an agreed-upon set of measures of fair funding access, as developed by peers.  

• Take ownership over our data and our story of addressing fair funding access.  

• Eventually, consider setting goals related to fair funding access to which we can hold ourselves and our field accountable.  

Learn more about Fair Funding Access.