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NEA Relief Funding
Please join our advocacy partners, Americans for the Arts, and help us advocate for emergency funding relief for the nonprofit arts industry. Information and a direct action link can be found below:  The coronavirus has already had a devastating economic impact on...
Urge Support for the Arts During the COVID-19 Outbreak
Current Ask: Request your members of Congress ensure Congress will include $4 billion—to be distributed though the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)—to help offset the losses of the nonprofit arts industry, and expand eligibility through additional federal...
Urge Congress to Cosponsor Two Creative Economy Bills
On Arts Advocacy Day, Sen. Tom Udall (D-NM) announced new legislation to strengthen the creative economy to a crowd of over 500 arts advocates. Entitled Comprehensive Resources for Entrepreneurs in the Arts to Transform the Economy (CREATE) Act (S.2648), the comprehensive...
Support a Universal Charitable Deduction to Encourage Charitable Giving
Current Ask: Request your representative restore the full value and scope of the charitable deduction by supporting one or more of the bills in the 116th Congress that would create a Universal Charitable Deduction to incentivize all taxpayers to give to charities,...
The Arts in Juvenile Justice
For Fiscal Year (FY) 2021, we urge Congress to:  Appropriate $61.5 million for Title V Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention Incentive Grants at the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP).  Include report language...
Increase NEA Funding!
Current Ask: Request your members of Congress sign onto the letters asking the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and the National Endowment for the Humanities be funded at a level of $170 million for fiscal year (FY) 2021. Background: In January 2020, the second...
Urge Congress to Cosponsor the STAR Act
On June 24, 2019, Rep. Alma Adams (D-NC) introduced H.R. 3437, the Saving Transit Art Resources (STAR) Act, which would reinstate flexibility and allow local transit authorities to incorporate art into federally-funded transit projects and facilities. It removes a recent,...
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