Culturally Responsive Grantmaking: Deepening Racial Equity in Arts Funding
Culturally Responsive Grantmaking: Deepening Racial Equity in Arts Funding
What does it take to move from racial equity as a value to racial equity as grantmaking practice? Building on the 2018 webinar Real and Not Real: History of Radicalization in the U.S. and GIA’s Racial Equity in Arts Funding Workshop, this workshop-style session co-facilitated by GIA's Nadia Elokdah, Jaime Sharp, and Eddie Torres, and Jonny Soto-Altrogge (TrueNorth EDI) offers arts and culture grantmakers a deeper framework for understanding culture, racialization, and funding practice.
Designed specifically for grantmakers, this session offers foundational grounding in the histories of racialization and cultural funding while creating space to reflect on how those histories show up in present-day grantmaking. Participants will consider how dominant norms can influence strategy, language, relationships, review processes, and definitions of impact, and how a stronger analysis can support more racially equitable practice.
This webinar is for arts funders seeking to deepen shared understanding, strengthen institutional practice, and more intentionally align their grantmaking with racial equity.
Live captioning will be available in English throughout the webinar. For additional accommodation requests, please contact GIA Senior Program Manager Jaime Sharp (jaime@giarts.org), at least three (3) business days prior to the event.
- Jonny Soto-Altrogge, TrueNorth EDI
- Nadia Elokdah, Grantmakers in the Arts
- Jaime Sharp, Grantmakers in the Arts
- Eddie Torres, Grantmakers in the Arts