A Small Investment With an Outsized Return: An Evaluation of the Quick Grant Program and its Impacts
In honor of Quick Grant’s 15th anniversary in 2024, CCI commissioned an outside evaluator to tell the story of how a relatively small investment(a $600 microgrant) can have an outsized impact on an awardee. The report examines the impacts Quick Grant has had on California artists and arts workers, it also describes artists’ creative and financial conditions in a post-COVID-19 landscape, and culminates with recommendations for how Quick Grant can continue to impact artists and arts workers, helping them to better manage their careers and organizations, and ultimately strengthen the arts sector as a whole.
Leveraging Investments in Creativity (LINC)
Launched as a ten-year initiative in 2003, LINC represents a philanthropic experiment in using information, money, strategy, and partnerships to effect change in the support system for artists in the United States. LINC’s mission was to improve the ability of artists to create work, build social capital, and contribute to democratic values.
Ally Fund Summary Review
Read CCI’s learning and recommendations regarding individual donor behavior in relation to online giving and online crowdfunding platforms.
Impact Investing in the Arts
Produced by the California College of the Arts with support from CCI and the Surdna Foundation, this is a literature scan of published knowledge of intersections between the arts and impact investing. This scan was conducted at a moment when impact investing is still emerging, which led CCA and CCI to question how this kind of financial and social investing has involved and affected the arts. The scan revealed that there have been very few developments on this front, and so this scan provides a baseline of the little, thus far, that has been done to integrate and study arts with principle-based investing.
