State Campaigns Federal Issues Tell Your Local News That You Support the Arts We are pleased to offer you a customizable "Letter to the Editor" to send to your local media. Simply enter your zip code in one of the designated boxes, select the media outlets to which you'd like to send your piece, then customize your letter using the talking points we... Help Self-Employed Workers After Disaster Strikes Recent disasters, including Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria and the wildfires in California, have underscored the need to support and strengthen our national recovery framework. In 2002, FEMA (the Federal Emergency Management Agency) wrote regulations that excluded... Request a Meeting with Your U.S. Representative! Simply enter your zip code in one of the designated boxes and then customize your invitation using the template we have provided as well as your own language specifying date, time, location and other logistics. Thank your legislators for state arts funding! Your legislators need to know that their constituents support the arts. In the 2017 legislative session, legislators supported increased arts funding. Please take five minutes to thank them for supporting the arts. Save the NEA On July 19, the full U.S. House voted on the bill that funds the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). We expect the bill to go to the U.S. Senate floor next week. On July 18, the U.S. House of Representatives soundly defeated an amendment that would... Urge Congress to Cosponsor the CREATE Act 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...
