Foundation Center Hosts Fifth
Funding for Arts Month in October
Free Programs and Services for Artists, Nonprofit Organizations
September 18, 2006, New York, NY—A popular event in all five of the Foundation Center's locations, Funding for Arts Month returns for its fifth consecutive year. Throughout October the Center will offer a wide array of arts-related programs and online resources aimed at helping artists and nonprofit arts organizations alike become better grantseekers and increase their funding.
"Over the past four years, thousands of grantseekers have taken advantage of our Funding for Arts Month programming and resources, and the demand continues," said Judith Margolin, vice president at the Foundation Center. "We are constantly striving to find new ways to educate and inform grantseekers in the arts, and this year's roster of classes and events bears that out."
Special programs in the Center's five regional centers will address such topics as the economic impact of the arts, funding for arts education in public schools, harnessing the power of online social networking services, and technical assistance and fundraising strategies for individual artists.
New at the Center's web site this year is "Individual Giving in Support of the Arts," a resource list of selected books, articles, and web sites on a sometimes elusive source of support. Philanthropy News Digest will release a special issue on arts-related news and commentaries and will feature Newsmakers Interviews with leaders in arts philanthropy.
Throughout October, the Center will offer free shipping on orders of its new 15th edition of Foundation Grants to Individuals.
The "Focus on Arts Funding" web page at www.fdncenter.org/focus/arts provides a quick guide to the full lineup of events and resources planned for the entire month of October.
Foundation Center Locations
Details on local events, classes and other programs, and web features are available on the Center's regional web sites:
New York: 79 Fifth Avenue, Second floor,
foundationcenter.org/newyork
Atlanta: 50 Hurt Plaza, Suite 150,
foundationcenter.org/atlanta
Cleveland: 1422 Euclid Avenue, Suite 1600,
foundationcenter.org/cleveland
San Francisco: 312 Sutter Street, Suite 606,
foundationcenter.org/sanfrancisco
Washington, DC: 1627 K Street, NW, Third floor,
foundationcenter.org/washington
About the Foundation Center
Established in 1956, and today supported by more than 600 foundations, the Foundation Center is the nation’s leading authority on organized philanthropy, connecting nonprofits and the grantmakers supporting them to tools they can use and information they can trust. The Center maintains the most comprehensive database on U.S. grantmakers and their grants and conducts research on trends in foundation growth and giving. It also operates education and outreach programs that help nonprofit organizations obtain the resources they need. More than 37,000 people visit the Center’s web site each day, and thousands more are served in its five regional learning centers and through its national network of more than 275 Cooperating Collections. For more information, visit foundationcenter.org or call 212-620-4230.
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