arts groups

A new report from the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy argues that funding for the arts benefits a mostly wealthy, white audience, with only a small portion going to emerging arts groups that serve poorer, more diverse communities....

Many Dayton arts organizations have seen steep declines in funding from foundations, state and local government, and large corporations....

The grants were awarded through the Performing Arts Recovery Initiative, a special one-time grant program that supports nonprofit music, dance, and theater groups that have been hit hard by the recession....

The Supporting Diverse Art Spaces Initiative will provide funding to arts groups around the country to develop new arts spaces, launch programs and address sustainability in newly opened facilities, and expand and renovate established facilities....

None of the seventeen artists' estates and arts organizations to which the foundation awarded grants in 2009 have received the funds, leading some grantees to file complaints with the New York attorney general's office....

Many states are slashing their arts funding for the second year in a row as they cope with falling tax revenues, a serious blow to arts agencies and individual dancers, painters, and actors at a time when private donations are down....

As part of its Community Foundation Challenge — Arts & Culture, the Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan contributed $1.25 million in matching funds to the effort, exceeding its initial commitment of $1 million....

To assist groups struggling in the recession, ACF awarded several grants to help arts groups cover general operating expenses while establishing a Food Pantry Capacity Fund to help area food pantries buy needed equipment....

Awarded through the PNC Arts Alive initiative, the grants to twenty-three visual and performing arts organizations will help the nonprofits expand and engage their audiences while making the arts more accessible to area residents....

Building on the fund's program of grantmaking, management consulting, and loans designed to strengthen arts groups in the twenty-three-county region, the Arts Recovery Initiative will include two grant cycles in both 2009 and 2010....