Fundraising Toolkit Case Study: The Art Cafe (Davison, MI)
Author: Cora Smilkovich The day before I started to do my search for a donated building, I attended a Michigan Association of Community Arts Agency's Kim Klein fundraising convention in Dearborn, MI....
View ArticleFundraising Toolkit Case Study: Spy Hop Productions (Salt Lake City, UT)
Author: Jennifer Cho About the grant process: In the summer of 2003 five high school interns at Spy Hop Productions applied for Time Warner Foundation’s Teen Summer Program. This program fosters and...
View ArticleFundraising Toolkit Case Study: San Francisco Cinematheque (San Francisco, CA)
Author: Steven Jenkins After years of applying to The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts for support of San Francisco Cinematheque's public programs, and after years of receiving polite...
View ArticleFundraising Toolkit Case Study: Frameline/San Francisco International Lesbian...
Author: K. C. Price A couple of years ago, I managed a fundraising event for Frameline (San Francisco International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival) that proved to be quite successful. In my eight...
View ArticleFunder as Supplicant
Blog Author: John R. Killacky Artists and arts organizations are owed the respect from funders to be treated professionally as peers. With candor and directness, I find these conversations to be...
View ArticleOnline Networking Fundraisers: Are They Too Exclusive?
Author: Arielle Sherman “Tweet. Meet. Give.” This is the slogan for the Twestival, or Twitter Festival, one of the newest cause marketing tactics designed to allow people who follow one another on...
View ArticleMobilizing Online Communities Offline: A Case Study
Author: Arielle Sherman In order to foster online communities, arts and cultural organizations must first foster their physical communities, or vice versa.read more
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Annals of Philanthropy: GIA 2010 Conference Blog
Author: Arlene Goldbard Two notes to you, dear readers:First, from Sunday through Wednesday (17-20 October 2010), I'll be one of three bloggers invited to attend and write about the annual conference...
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Annals of Philanthropy: GIA 2010 Conference Blog 2: Shine on Me: Scenes from...
Author: Arlene Goldbard I spent the day at Grantmakers in The Arts' Support for Individual Artists preconference (entitled Artists and Grantmakers: A Shared Enterprise). Dozens of artists and funders...
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Annals of Philanthropy: GIA 2010 Conference Blog 3: Capitalization
Author: Arlene Goldbard The first plenary session of this Grantmakers in The Arts' conference focused on the National Capitalization Project, a GIA initiative launched this past January. It was...
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Annals of Philanthropy: GIA 2010 Conference Blog 4: Third Space
Author: Arlene Goldbard Joi Ito, founder and CEO of Creative Commons, was the luncheon speaker at Monday's GIA meeting. His relaxed and likable presence comes across as realness personified. His...
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Annals of Philanthropy: GIA 2010 Conference Blog 5: Prove It
Author: Arlene Goldbard On Tuesday, I attended a Grantmakers in the Arts conference presentation on "Participatory Arts and Community Health: Challenges and Opportunities," organized by Amy Kitchener...
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Annals of Philanthropy: GIA 2010 Conference Blog 6: Cook It Up
Author: Arlene Goldbard This is my sixth and final post about the Grantmakers in the Arts 2010 conference, where I was invited to take part as a live blogger. It was tremendous fun: I got to write...
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NAMAC releases 2011 Regional Report: Media Arts Organizations in the Evolving...
In 2010 and 2011, NAMAC set out to better understand the challenges, opportunities and emerging strategies for independent media arts organizations in the digital era. Through four regional...
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WEBINAR: Documentary Proposal Writing Basics & Film Funder Overview
Documentary filmmakers: Learn some of the basics of documentary proposal writing in this 90-minute, online workshop! Tuesday October 15, 1pm EDT – 2:30pm EDT (10am PDT - 11:30am PDT)Join Women Make...
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