Join the Racial Equity in Grantmaking Coding Cohort
Grantmakers in the Arts, Callahan Consulting for the Arts, and Doris Duke Foundation invite you to join your peers as part of the Racial Equity in Grantmaking Coding Cohort by filling out this application by November 1, 2023.
The Racial Equity in Grantmaking Coding Project is a national effort to advance racial equity in arts grantmaking. Central to the Racial Equity in Grantmaking Coding Project is a new measurement framework allows grantmakers to code their grants along a spectrum for three different considerations: the extent to which the effort or organization supported is By BIPOC communities; For BIPOC communities; and About BIPOC communities. More information on the project can be found here.
GIA introduced the Racial Equity in Grantmaking Coding Project through this blog; and described the experience of participating in the Racial Equity Coding Project Cohort in this podcast with Susan Feder, (Mellon Foundation); Adam Fong (William & Flora Hewlett Foundation), and Maurine Knighton (Doris Duke Foundation); and this podcast with Eleanor Savage (Jerome Foundation), and Tiffany Wilhelm (Opportunity Fund).
How do we know how much progress we’re making as we work to advance racial equity in our arts funding – as individual funders and as a field? How do we know what our progress means compared to the rest of the field? How do we measure our progress over time?
For those of us working to advance racial equity, the news can be so dispiriting. We see reports of the funding community’s backsliding from its recent racial equity commitments into business as usual. GIA’s members self-reported increasing their support for BIPOC organizations and artists, at the same time, the larger field seemed to be backsliding.
How do we actualize self-determination AND accountability? How do we track our good intentions against impact? How do we collectively celebrate our successes and learn from our failures?
GIA organizes grantmakers to embrace values-driven funding through our Racial Equity workshops, and to track their own progress through the Racial Equity in Grantmaking Coding Project.
Issues of racial capitalism and funding inequities are big, and I am small. I’m small when I’m alone, but I’m as powerful as the challenges before me when I work as part of a community. The Racial Equity Coding in Grantmaking Project Cohort is such a community. Please find out more here and apply to join today.
