100 good practice guides now available on the IFACCA website

The 'good practice guides' have been categorised into four sections:

1. Subsidies and Grants (10 resources)This section includes resources about operating grant programs and covers their design, promotion, delivery and evaluation.
For example:
Peer assessment: a guide (Manitoba Arts Council, Canada)
Administration of grants: better practice guide (Australian National Audit Office)
Grantcraft: Practical Wisdom for Grantmakers (GrantCraft, USA)
Arts Council wins top business award, offers to assist others (Arts Council Ireland)
Artistic vibrancy a new measure of success (Australia Council for the Arts)

2. Strategic activities and government relations (9 resources) This section includes resources to assist funding agencies to undertake strategic activities (not directly related to grant giving). It includes information on how agencies can advocate on behalf of the arts or artists, inform policy development and legislation (i.e. advice on laws affecting the arts), create partnerships with other areas of government, undertake research and analysis on the arts sector; and support leadership development.
For example:
Supporting Australia's Live Music Industry: suggested principles for best practice 2010 (Cultural Ministers Council, Australia)
Policy tool-kit for cross-domain working (CALIMERA, Portugal)
Disability Equality Scheme 2010-13 (Arts Council England, England)
An international framework of good practice in research and delivery of the European Capital of Cultural programme (Agenda 21, Spain)
Working with Government: Guidance for Grantmakers (GrantCraft, USA)
National arts advocacy campaigns: overview of case studies and good practice (IFACCA)

3. Managing an arts funding agency (13 resources)This section includes resources about the management of funding agencies and covers areas such as strategic planning and policy making, governance, service charters and general arts agency management issues.
For example:
Open Government Plan (National Endowment for the Arts, USA)
Strengthening the system of governance for culture in developing countries: fact sheet (EU/UNESCO)
Service charter (Australia Council for the Arts)
Cultural Governance in the Netherlands (Stichting Kunst & Zaken, Netherlands)
A State Arts Agency Strategic Planning Toolkit (NASAA, USA)

4. Information provision (69 resources)This section includes resources produced by arts funding agencies to help artists and arts organisations to: develop marketing skills and audiences (nationally and internationally); improve governance, financial and management capabilities; undertake community planning and consultation (including partnerships); advocate key issues affecting artists and the arts. For example:
Artist Visa Applications: Arguments for Success (On-The-Move, Belgium)
An arts guide to philanthropic gifts and tax: the dry stuff (Artsupport Australia, Australia Council for the Arts)
Self-evaluation framework (Arts Council England)
Cultural Planning Toolkit (Creative City Network of Canada)
Arts for All | Ng toi mo te katoa (Creative New Zealand Arts Council New Zealand Toi Aotearoa, Arts Access Aoteroa)

We greatly value your willingness to share your knowledge and experiences with IFACCA members and colleagues by building the Good Practice Guide resource. We welcome your suggestions of other good practice guides, which can be sent to info@ifacca.org