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August 6, 2008

In this month's issue of Arts Funding Watch, the Foundation Center's newsletter devoted entirely to the arts, you'll learn about a new U.S.-Israel program for visiting artists. You'll also find links to arts-related news, funding opportunities for organizations and individuals, resources, and job listings. Arts Funding Watch is available exclusively to visitors who register at the Foundation Center's Web site.

Schusterman Family Foundation Announces Israeli Visiting Artists Program

The Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation has announced the launch of a new visiting artists program designed to bring more exposure in America to Israeli artists and to provide professional development and cultural opportunities for Israeli artists outside their home country. Funded by the Foundation for Jewish Culture, the Schusterman Visiting Artists Program will award Israeli artists, musicians, filmmakers, writers, and choreographers two- to nine-month residencies at North American universities, museums, Jewish community centers, and other cultural organizations, with a focus on fostering interaction between the artists and the communities in which they are based. Read the article»

Recent Arts News from Philanthropy News Digest

Rockefeller Brothers Fund Awards Capacity-Building Grants to New York Arts Groups
Twelve arts and cultural organizations in Manhattan and Brooklyn will receive grants in support of their effort to preserve the cultural heritage of and provide education and enjoyment to the people they serve....
Posted: 8/06/08

Education Foundations Step In to Fill Funding Gaps
As state budget cuts in California force school administrators to trim or eliminate art, theater, music, and other programs, public school districts increasingly are looking to education foundations to pick up the slack....
Posted: 8/02/08

American Express Announces Second Competition to Develop Innovative Program Ideas
Through its 2008 Members Project, American Express will award a total of $2.5 million to five projects in the categories of health, education, the environment and wildlife, arts and culture, and community development....
Posted: 7/25/08

$5 Million Gift Supports Reconstruction of Colonial Williamsburg Coffeehouse
The gift from Forrest and Deborah Mars supports the reconstruction of the mid-eighteenth-century Charlton Coffeehouse — the first complete reconstruction of a building in Colonial Williamsburg in fifty years....
Posted: 7/19/08

More arts news»

Funding Opportunities

Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation Offers Support for Contemporary Art Exhibition Publications
Grants of up to $20,000 will be awarded to nonprofits producing catalogues or publications that accompany contemporary art exhibitions and projects, especially those supporting emerging and under-recognized artists....
Deadline: 8/15/08 and 3/15/09 (Letters of Inquiry, annually)

Social Justice Fund NW Announces Guidelines for Cultural Grants Program
Grants of up to $7,500 will be awarded to organizations working to encourage diverse forms of cultural expression in disadvantaged communities in Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, and Wyoming....
Deadline: 9/08/08

Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Accepting Letters of Inquiry for National Projects in Performing Arts
Grants of up to $200,000 will be awarded to nonprofits and consortia working to strengthen the national infrastructure and improve conditions for artists in the dance, jazz, presenting, and/or theater fields....
Deadline: 11/01/08 (Letters of Inquiry)

Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards to Honor Works Addressing Racism and Diversity
Two awards of $10,000 each will be given for a work of fiction or poetry and for a work of nonfiction, biography, or scholarly research written in English and published in the preceding calendar year....
Deadline: 12/31/08

National Endowment for the Humanities Offers Emergency Flood Assistance Grants
Grants of up to $20,000 will be awarded to affected libraries, museums, colleges, universities, and other cultural and historical institutions in the Midwest for salvage and protection of significant collections of cultural heritage....
Deadline: Open

More requests for proposals»

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Reviving Arts Education

In urban areas, coordinated efforts by schools, cultural organizations, funders, local government, and other groups are helping to revive arts education through pooled resources and coordinated activities. Commissioned by the Wallace Foundation and conducted by RAND Education, a new study, Revitalizing Arts Education Through Community-Wide Coordination (108 pages, PDF), looks at the progress achieved — and the challenges encountered — by initiatives in Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles County, the Oakland-Berkeley area, and New York City. When well planned, such programs enable more children to benefit from arts learning, the report finds.

Corporate Support
of Culture

As part
of CIT's 5 Minute Capital podcast series, CIT senior vice president and director of corporate and public affairs Anita Contini weighs in on the importance of corporate support for cultural groups. In an episode called "Supporting the Arts and Culture" (MP3; transcript, 2 pages, PDF), Contini discusses the significant funding role corporations play for many arts institutions.

Free Materials for NYC Arts Programs

Materials for the Arts, a program
of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, provides thousands of arts and cultural organizations, public schools, and community arts programs in the city's five boroughs with supplies to run or expand their programs. Materials are gathered from companies and individuals that no longer need them, stored in a large warehouse, and redistributed to artists and educators that do.

Job Opportunities

Board Relations Coordinator
Brooklyn Academy of Music
Brooklyn, New York
Posted: 8/05/08

Grants Writer
Shakespeare Theatre Company
Washington, D.C.
Posted: 8/05/08

Program Manager, School Partnerships
Urban Gateways Center for Arts Education
Chicago, Illinois
Posted: 7/31/08

Intern
Los Angeles Program Performing Arts Workshop
San Francisco, California
Posted: 7/28/08

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