Craft Emergency Relief Fund has published Studio Protector: An Artist’s Guide to Emergencies. The fun-to-use, indispensable wall guide and companion web site, www.studioprotector.org, is for artists who want to cover their A’s (their art, assets and archives, that is) in the event of an emergency.
Nationally known paper engineer Carol Barton and a team of artists [...]
On Friday, November 20, 2009, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) will present a live webcast on www.arts.gov of a forum about America’s artists and other cultural workers who are part of this country’s real economy. Academics, foundation professionals, and service organization representatives will come together to discuss improving the collection and reporting of [...]
A new research advisory from the Foundation Center suggests that foundation giving will decline by more than 10 percent in 2009, a bit closer to the high end of the range estimated by the center earlier this year, and that it will fall further in 2010.
Based on a September follow-up survey of large U.S. foundations, [...]
Bolder Giving is offering a series of free hour-long telehone conversations with remarkable individual dnors. Founded by GIA member Anne Ellinger ( Zing Foundation), the first conversation will be with Mike Schaefer, the surviving life partner of an early Microsoft pioneer, who has distributed more than $180 million – nearly 100% of their assets – [...]
Just in case you missed it. Check out reports by Ina David Moss from GIA’s 2009 conference right next door.
The popular Agnes Varis and Karl Leichtman Rush Tickets program returns for its third season. Thanks to a generous gift from Met Board member Agnes Varis and her husband, Karl Leichtman, two hundred orchestra seats are available for $20 for regular performances Monday through Thursday (excluding galas, special events, and opening nights of new productions), [...]
“The U.S. Department of Education is seeking recommendations for reviewers for the $4.35 billion Race to the Top Fund competitive grant program. This program presents an unprecedented opportunity to support far-reaching improvement in schools across the country. Therefore, we hope to assemble panels of our nation’s most distinguished educators, policymakers, and scholars to [...]
Yesterday the Boston Foundation unveiled major changes in its grantmaking strategy and announced that “the most dramatic change is a shift of emphasis to unrestricted operating support.” You’re not hallucinating, and it’s not a typo.
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Hallelujah. This is the nonprofit sector equivalent of the fall of the Berlin Wall. I remember when the Red Sox won [...]
The biggest public charity in New England is changing the way it hands out millions of dollars to a wide range of community groups, giving more money to those it considers to be the most effective and cutting funding to others.
The shift in strategy at The Boston Foundation, which gave out $86 million in its [...]
Does education in the arts transfer to seemingly unrelated cognitive abilities? Researchers are finding evidence that it does. Michael Posner argues that when children find an art form that sustains their interest, the subsequent strengthening of their brains’ attention networks can improve cognition more broadly.
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NYFA Current, one of the oldest and respected publication serving artists nationally is looking for support to continue publishing.
Since the recession hit nearly a year ago, NYFA Current has been at the forefront of reporting on how artists have been impacted by the downturn. From the first “Art Market Recession Report” to a special “Money” [...]
The Pittsburgh Foundation is broadening its grantmaking — delving into the environment and advocacy — so it can become more of a community leader.
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Not sure how this might apply to cultural philanthropy, but it is a great story.
Thomas Siebel does philanthropy differently from other donors. As the founder of the software company Siebel Systems Inc., he is one of a handful of philanthropists who have the resources to devote substantial time and money to charity. His approach and [...]
A new publication from the Wallace Foundation.
In the midst of hard economic times, it is clearly more challenging for arts organizations to take the long view and continue to devote time and effort to building new audiences. But this report on a recent gathering of representatives from more than 50 Wallace-funded arts organizations in six [...]
Patrice Walker Powell announced today:
Joan Shigekawa, the NEA’s new Senior Deputy Chairman, comes to the NEA with an extraordinary background in the arts. She has most recently served as Associated Director for Foundation Initiatives at the Rockefeller Foundation where she has been responsible for design, implementation, and management of national and international programs in [...]
This brief publication is a handy bibliography to more lengthly research reports elsewhere.
The key to increasing demand for the arts may well lie in reversing the 30-year-long downtrend in arts learning both in and out of school. A number of cities have been tackling that challenge by using “coordinated approaches” that seek to have schools [...]
New research supported by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation examines new web-based tools for sharing data and evaluation.
The social sector’s ability to solve complex social problems is limited by traditional approaches to grantee performance and outcome measurement. By focusing on individual grants and nonprofit initiatives, these measurement approaches neglect the reality that no single [...]
Earlier this year several Seattle Native nonprofit groups came together to both learn more about the work that they each do and to find ways in which they can support each other in these difficult times. The meeting arose out of a brief gathering that the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation hosted to discuss the [...]
An inspired program from Worldchanging:
Attention philanthropy is a gift of notice. In a noisy world, deluged in advertising, overrun with PR flacks and crowded with the superficial, one of the biggest barriers to success for a small, good idea or noble enterprise can simply be getting noticed in the first place.
Attention philanthropy is all about [...]
