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Following the release of our new strategic direction in the fall, Philanthropy Network will be hitting the road for a series of Town Hall meetings around the region to meet with members and delve deeper into the strategy that will be guiding our work. 

Arts foundations and nonprofit leaders are increasingly aware of diversity and equity issues in the nonprofit cultural sector. However, despite this awareness, arts funding is getting less equitable, not more. Just 2 percent of all cultural institutions receive nearly 60 percent of all contributed revenue – up 5 percent over a decade. Funding inequities are systemic and local patterns mirror national ones.