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NASAA Notes: May 2010

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2010

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State to State
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Jesse Rye
May 11, 2010

New York: Webcast of Public Meetings

The New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) has been making public meetings available through webcast since 2007. Constituents have the option of watching a meeting live or at a later time through the…
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Jesse Rye
May 11, 2010

Utah: Parent-Teacher Association Partnership

The Utah Arts Council (UAC) has a strong partnership with the Utah PTA (Parent-Teacher Association). In 1997, under the leadership of UAC’s arts education program, Utah PTA expanded state Reflections program to include dance choreography,…
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Jesse Rye
May 11, 2010

Minnesota: Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund

The Minnesota State Arts Board (MSAB) and the state’s 11 regional arts councils will receive a significant portion of the Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund, which resulted from the Clean Water, Land and Legacy Amendment…
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Jesse Rye
May 11, 2010

Virginia: Celebrating Women in the Arts

Several years ago the Virginia Commission for the Arts (VCA) began hosting regular roundtable discussions among the state’s major arts organizations, with the goal of encouraging these groups to play a strong leadership role in promoting the arts statewide.…
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Legislative Update
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Thomas L. Birch
May 11, 2010

NEA Chair Testifies on Arts Budget; Arts Education Testimony in Senate

Appearing before the House Interior Appropriations Subcommittee on April 13, Rocco Landesman, chair of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), presented the Obama administration’s budget proposing $161.315 million for the federal arts agency in…
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Executive Director's Column
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Jonathan Katz
May 11, 2010

What Effective Arts Constituencies Do

Between last November and this month, each of the six regional arts organizations has cordially provided me the opportunity to address NASAA members at one of its meetings. Given turnover in Congress, in NEA leadership,…
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Research on Demand
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Angela Han
May 11, 2010

Support for Individual Artists

As a national source of information on public arts funding, NASAA provides a knowledge network and fact base to help state arts agencies make informed policy decisions and put their own state’s needs and experiences…
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Did You Know?
May 11, 2010

Nonprofits Are Bracing for a Tough 2010

The Nonprofit Finance Fund (NFF) recently released the results of its second annual survey on the state of the nonprofit sector. Of the more than 1,300 respondents, 417 (32%) were from arts, culture and humanities…
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