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The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and The James Irvine Foundation are pleased to announce the launch of the Next Gen Arts Initiative, which will provide professional development grants up to $1,000 to emerging arts administrators in California through the Center for Cultural Innovation’s Creative Capacity Fund, along with other program activities.

California arts administrators between the ages of 18 and 35 who are currently employed by a nonprofit arts organization may be eligible to apply for these new grant resources by registering online and completing a profile questionnaire by July 31, 2010. Please help us by sharing this post with  appropriate members of your staff. A link to that survey is provided here: http://surveymonkey.com/s/NextGenArts.

We would appreciate any help that you can give us in promoting the online registry and profile questionnaire to emerging arts leaders in California. The information collected from individual employees will be treated strictly confidentially, but we look forward to sharing a summary of findings more broadly with the arts field.

For further information about CCI’s Creative Capacity Fund and the Next Gen Arts Initiative, please visit: www.creativecapacityfund.org.

On January 28^th, creative thinkers from arts, neuroscience, business, media, and philanthropy will gather for a one-day complimentary conference in San Francisco to think in fresh ways about the future of the arts in the Bay Area.  The conference, Dynamic Adaptability: A Conference on New Thinking and New Strategies for the Arts, will take place on Thursday, January 28, 2010, from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. at the Herbst Theatre, 401 Van Ness Avenue, San Francsico. 

Pre-registration is required before Friday, January 15^th.  For more information and to register, click here.

The Foundation Center regional research report, Spotlight on Arts Grantmaking in California, “sheds light on grant priorities and the effect of the economic crisis on California arts funders and recipient organizations surveyed earlier in 2009.”

“Findings show the contrast between types of support that grantmakers award compared to what arts groups say they need most.”

Download the report.

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