Disability Justice for Individual Artists
Disability Justice for Individual Artists
Best practices for funding artists with disabilities
Grantmakers in the Arts
Grantmakers in the Arts is the only national association of both public and private arts and culture funders in the US, including independent and family foundations, public agencies, community foundations, corporate philanthropies, nonprofit regrantors, and national service organizations – funders of all shapes and sizes across the US and into Canada.
In May 2022, we collaborated with our friends at Grantmakers in the Arts to uplift the challenges that asset caps on benefits and assistance programs create for those with disabilities.
The webinar featured Reveca Torres, Executive Director of BACKBONES, and grantee in CCI’s Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) Artist-Innovator Fund, Laura Poppiti, Program Director and leader of CCI’s grantmaking programs including the SCI Artist Innovator Fund, and Alex Nock, principal at Penn Hill Group, a DC-based government affairs firm.
Participants discussed the ways asset caps impede grantmaking to artists with disabilities, including specific challenges they encountered, strategies to overcome them, and opportunities for shared advocacy on this topic.
Watch the webinar below!
More Than Enough
More Than Enough
Guaranteed Income as a tool to transform people's lives.
Mia Birdsong, Next River
Mia is a pathfinder, writer, and facilitator who steadily engages the leadership and wisdom of people experiencing injustice to chart new visions of American life. She has a gift for making visible and leveraging the brilliance of everyday people so that our collective gifts reach larger spheres of influence, cultural and political change, and create wellbeing for everyone.
Mia is the founding Executive Director of Next River, an institute for practicing the future. Next River moves conversations, culture, and resources to nourish the people and communities whose ways of being, doing, and relating can move us toward a liberated future.
Mia Birdsong's four-part podcast from The Nation explores how a Guaranteed Income might actually transform people's lives.
Mia Birdsong’s work inspires us everyday. From this amazing podcast series with the Nation on why a Guaranteed Income matters, to her current work at Next River: An Institute for Practicing the Future, Mia’s efforts to center human dignity, connectedness, and joy grounds us in the purpose of this work - not just what we hope to achieve, but why it matters.
The More Than Enough podcast series explores not just the idea of guaranteed income, but more importantly, uplifts the voices of those who would benefit most from the policy, with a particular focus on the experiences of Black women. There are so many pearls of wisdom in this series - it is definitely worth your time!
