Family Funds’ Grant Making in the Arts

November 30, 2000

Creative Family Giving in the Arts, by Laurel Jones and Morrie Warshawski, profiles grant making in the arts by 18 family foundations and family giving groups. Unlike many larger private grant makers, a number of those funds award grants to individual artists. This book is part of the series Grantmakers in the Arts Field Resource Books. Ms. Jones and Mr. Warshawski are arts-management consultants in San Francisco.

Publisher: Grantmakers in the Arts, 604 West Galer Street, Seattle, Wash. 98119-3253; (206) 624-2312; fax (206) 624-5568; gia@giarts.org; http://www.giarts.org; 89 pages; $12 including postage and handling.

About the Author

NICOLE WALLACE

Features Editor

Nicole Wallace is features editor of the Chronicle of Philanthropy. She has written about innovation in the nonprofit world, charities’ use of data to improve their work and to boost fundraising, advanced technologies for social good, and hybrid efforts at the intersection of the nonprofit and for-profit sectors, such as social enterprise and impact investing.Nicole spearheaded the Chronicle’s coverage of Hurricane Katrina recovery efforts on the Gulf Coast and reported from India on the role of philanthropy in rebuilding after the South Asian tsunami. She started at the Chronicle in 1996 as an editorial assistant compiling The Nonprofit Handbook.Before joining the Chronicle, Nicole worked at the Association of Farmworker Opportunity Programs and served in the inaugural class of the AmeriCorps National Civilian Community Corps.A native of Columbia, Pa., she holds a bachelor’s degree in foreign service from Georgetown University.