NEW! Diving into Racial Equity: The MAP Fund’s Exploration
By Vanessa Whang
In 2015, the MAP Fund undertook a deep examination of one of its foundational priorities: racial equity in arts and culture grantmaking. In this case study by Vanessa Whang, follow MAP’s layered inquiry to examine biases in its: application platform, guidelines and requirements, applicant advisory supports and communications, and adjudication processes. Learn how MAP is incorporating the framework, Aesthetic Perspectives: Attributes of Excellence in Arts for Change to help mitigate aesthetic bias in proposal review, and what an evaluation revealed. Published by Animating Democracy in collaboration with the MAP Fund.
NEW! Aesthetic Perspectives: Attributes of Excellence in Arts for Change
Aesthetic Perspectives is a framework to enhance understanding and evaluation of creative work at the intersection of arts and civic engagement, community development, and justice. Aesthetic Perspectives describes 11 attributes of excellence defined by artists that can be observed in socially engaged work in all artistic disciplines. These attributes address the potency of creative expression to embody and motivate change.
NEW! Aesthetic Perspectives: Funder Companion
By M. Christine Dwyer, RMC Research
Learn how to use the Aesthetic Perspectives framework to: frame program mission, design application materials, guide processes for proposal review including panelist guidelines, and evaluate grantee outcomes. Read more about this new initiative and help contribute.
Arts for Social Change Funder Portraits
The Arts for Social Change Funder Portraits are a series of brief papers and podcast interviews featuring funders who are supporting arts and culture as a creative strategy to achieve community building and development goals, civic engagement, or social justice goals.
Funder Resources
This curation of IMPACT Resources offers insight into funders’ perspectives on evaluation and impact. These pieces highlight philosophies and approaches to evaluation and work to advance meaningful measurement and communication strategies.
Trend or Tipping Point: Arts & Social Change Grantmaking – 2010 Report
The report, developed by Animating Democracy, a program of Americans for the Arts, assembles a first-time portrait of arts funders, social change funders, and others supporting civic engagement and social change through arts and cultural strategies.
Statistical Report
This companion to the Trend or Tipping Point report provides additional charts and graphs with data summaries based on the 2010 survey of grantmakers.
Corporate Social Responsibility & the Arts
This 2015 report details the current landscape of corporate support for arts and culture—one in which more corporations are focusing strategically on issues that align with their business interests and have a positive social impact on their employees, consumers, or the communities in which they do business.
It builds off of Animating Democracy's 2010 Trend or Tipping Point report.