Posts Categorized: News

If you happen to be spending some of the hot Arizona summer looking for a career transition, an internship or re-entry to the workforce, tips from two recent articles might prove to be helpful in your pursuits. In a recent post to the Fractured Atlas blog, Ciara Pressler of Pressler Collaborative talks about the (many)… Read more »

Just one month ago, Alliance for Audience and ShowUp.com announced a new program for veterans and active duty military, thanks in part to generous support from Bank of America. Through a partnership with Veteran Tickets Foundation, a Phoenix-based nonprofit organization that works nationally, ShowUp for Veterans promotes opportunities for Arizona’s active-duty and veteran military service… Read more »

The Arizona Humanities Council (AHC), the Arizona affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities, is offering free workshops to provide information about their grants and programs. The workshops are open to anyone interested in learning more about the Arizona Humanities Council, its available resources, or how to write a competitive AHC grant proposal. Two workshops will be offered… Read more »

On June 3, the US Department of Education kicked-off the 2011 Investing in Innovation (i3) grant competition to continue support for evidence-based practices in education. This second round of i3 makes $150 million available to individual school districts, consortia of districts, and non-profit organizations in partnership with districts or groups of schools. Tomorrow, June 30, from… Read more »

Tune in to popular television show So You think You Can Dance on Thursday night at 8pm to see acclaimed nonprofit dance group, AXIS Dance Company perform live. Dancers Sonsheree Giles and Rodeny Bell will perform a duet, “To Color Me Different,” choreographed by Alex Ketley.

The Arts and Business Council of Greater Phoenix is currently seeking nominations for their annual Business in the Arts Awards. Nominations will be accepted until July 11, 2011, 5:00pm. Nominations are accepted in six categories: Large Business Partner, Mid-Size Business Partner, Small Business Partner, Arts Organization of the Year, Arts Advocate of the Year and… Read more »

Theatre Bay Area recently commissioned a report that takes a close look at how arts nonprofits are making use of social media. The Tangled Web: Social Media and the Arts report includes feedback from 207 participating arts and cultural organizations from across the country. The study was funded by the Wallace Foundation, Grants for the… Read more »

Grant Hill signs on as spokesperson for The Choice is Art: A statewide campaign for the arts in Arizona, created by the Arizona Commission on the Arts Professional basketball player and art collector Grant Hill has signed on as a Campaign Spokesperson for The Choice is Art, a promotional campaign for the arts in Arizona…. Read more »

It is hard to believe that a little less than 5 months ago Arizona became the 9th state to launch the Cultural Data Project – a powerful web-based data collection tool for arts organizations and the cultural field. The Cultural Data Project has presented 11 orientation sessions throughout the state and online as part of… Read more »

Dear arts and culture partners, We hope you are enjoying the start of summer, and for many, the end of another fiscal year. To our friends and colleagues across Arizona who are experiencing the extraordinary challenges brought by wildfires, we offer our good wishes and support during this most difficult time. June marks the Arizona… Read more »