Arts Advocacy News

ArtsGeorgia is a National CoSponsor of Arts Advocacy Day. The National CoSponsors help shape the legislative platforms and messages for Arts Advocacy Day. ArtsGeorgia cast our annual Policy Vote for the following:

1. Federal Funding of Arts Programs in Your State and Community: We urge the President and Congress to support a budget of $155 million for the National Endowment for the Arts next year in order to maintain citizen access to the cultural, educational, and economic benefits of the arts, and to advance creativity and innovation in communities across the United States.

2. Support for Arts Education: We urge the President and Congress to retain the arts in the definition of core academic subjects and to strengthen equitable access to arts learning within the Elementary and Secondary Education Act.

3. Support Charities: We urge the President and Congress to fully preserve tax deduction incentives for giving to charities. Nonprofit arts organizations rely on donations made by individual taxpayers for approximately 25 percent of their budgets.

ArtsGeorgia supports AFTA’s “LONGTERM VISION FOR THE FUTURE”: We support setting the horizon 10-to-15 years out and our focus is on educating and supporting candidates before they are elected. We want the federal government to invest at least $1 per citizen in the nonprofit arts and for local governments to invest 5% of their education budgets in arts education.

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March 6, 2014 · admin · Comments Closed
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