DREAMING BIG: Bonfils-Stanton Foundation Embarks on Strategic Planning Grounded in Equity

By Gary Steuer As we have shared in previous communications, Bonfils-Stanton Foundation has spent a good part of 2020 and 2021 engaged in a thorough racial equity assessment, training and planning process, working with The Gemini Group. At the same time, we responded to the impact of COVID-19 on the cultural sector and assessed [...]

2022-03-01T12:02:05-07:00February 27th, 2022|Tags: , , , |Comments Off on DREAMING BIG: Bonfils-Stanton Foundation Embarks on Strategic Planning Grounded in Equity

Meet Jess Bolormaa: Bonfils-Stanton Foundation’s summer DITA intern

Bonfils-Stanton Foundation has a new smiling face in our offices. We are elated to host a Diversity in the Arts (DITA) Intern over the next 10 weeks. The DITA Internship Program is dedicated to fostering diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) within the leadership of the arts & culture nonprofit community in Colorado. Everyone, meet [...]

2021-06-21T11:01:50-06:00June 20th, 2021|Tags: , , , , , , |Comments Off on Meet Jess Bolormaa: Bonfils-Stanton Foundation’s summer DITA intern

Reflecting on 2020 and Bonfils-Stanton Foundation’s Responses to COVID and Racial Justice

By Gary Steuer, President & CEO 2020 was a year unlike any other in my lifetime, and I have been through growing up during the 60’s civil rights struggle, the anti-war movement of the 60’s and 70’s, being in NYC for 9/11 and grappling with the massive economic impact of the 2008 recession. [...]

Evolving Grantmaking for Greater Community Impact

By Gina Ferrari, Bonfils-Stanton Foundation Staff Over the past year, the Bonfils-Stanton Foundation has shared some of our thinking around equity in philanthropy and our values as a grantmaking organization. We have highlighted some of the organic shifts in our grantmaking to serve a more diverse community of arts & culture organizations and [...]

2020-01-05T11:50:02-07:00August 25th, 2019|Tags: , , , , |Comments Off on Evolving Grantmaking for Greater Community Impact

Our commitment to equity

By Gary Steuer “Diversity, Equity and Inclusion” are not just buzzwords, but the subject of critically important conversations among funders, nonprofits, cultural organizations, artists and civic leaders. These conversations – which are often difficult and even messy - can and should lead to action. I have served on the Grantmakers in the Arts [...]

2018-09-24T12:24:26-06:00September 23rd, 2018|Tags: , , , , |Comments Off on Our commitment to equity

Why Americans for the Arts’ “Statement on Cultural Equity” Is An Important Milestone

By Gary Steuer, President and CEO Bonfils-Stanton Foundation You would have to be living under a rock to not be thinking about equity these days, and all its related terms/concepts - structural racism, inclusiveness, privilege, etc. Just having the conversation can be a minefield, especially as someone who comes to the conversation from a position of [...]

2017-03-27T15:20:00-06:00June 1st, 2016|Tags: , , , , |Comments Off on Why Americans for the Arts’ “Statement on Cultural Equity” Is An Important Milestone
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