INSIDE PHILANTHROPY'S FUNDING GUIDES
A search tool to explore  thousands of profiles of institutional and individual funders and browse various guides which organize funders by industry, issue, and geographic place. The guides are written by in-house staff and updated constantly to reflect changes in funders and trends. They also work to get inside foundations—and into the heads of top individual donors—to explain who is funding what and why, what’s new, and how to make the right pitch. 

IRRIGATE TOOLKIT
The Irrigate toolkit stemmed from the Irrigate project, which leveraged the arts to offset the disruption caused by construction of a new rail line in St.Paul, MN. Disruption is something that all communities face at some point in their trajectories, and this toolkit clearly lays out how the arts can help help turn a ubiquitous challenge into positive outcomes. 

JOURNEY TO CREATIVE PLACEMAKING: LESSONS AND INSIGHTS
Reflections, learnings and insights on Creative Placemaking are shared in this series of white papers from The Kresge Foundation’s Arts & Culture team in concert with partners from different fields and sectors. The goal is to help illuminate the foundation’s multi-faceted approach to grantmaking, share lessons learned, identify challenges and opportunities encountered, and encourage conversations in the field. 

LEVERAGING INVESTMENTS IN CREATIVITY
This ten year initiative to reinvent arts funding in the United States came to a close in 2013. A series of short documentaries chronicling four of the grantees around the country were commissioned: Urban Bush Women in Brooklyn, NY; The Nickelodeon Theater in Columbia, SC; the Montana Arts Council; and Los Cenzontles in San Pablo, CA. The first and last videos in this six-part series explore the vision and premises of this groundbreaking project in cultural philanthropy.

MAKING SENSE OF MEANING: HOW CREATIVE DOCUMENTATION ENHANCES OUR UNDERSTANDING OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
The effort to document and research the Community Development Investments initiative grew up alongside the program itself, and the analytical approach reflects a balance between conveying the unique features of six distinct experiences and producing lessons of broader relevance to various fields of practice. This essay describes the ways in which the PolicyLink team, in close consultation with ArtPlace America, the grantees of the program, and a number of advisors, created and carried out an approach that was suited to the unique features and dimensions of the initiative.

MAPPING THE LANDSCAPE OF SOCIALLY ENGAGED ARTISTIC PRACTICE
Helicon Collaborative, supported by the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, began this research in 2015 in order to contribute to the ongoing conversation on “socially engaged art.” Their goal was to make this important realm of artmaking more visible and legible to both practitioners and funders in order to enhance effective practice and expand resources to support it.