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NASAA Notes: December 2012

December
2012

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State to State
December 2, 2012

Illinois: Charting the Future of Arts Organizations

With the assistance of the Illinois Arts Council (IAC), cultural organizations across the state of Illinois have come together to assess their needs and identify possible new pathways to success in a climate characterized by…
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December 2, 2012

Kentucky: Creative Aging

Creative aging and lifelong learning will be the central themes of the Kentucky Arts Council’s (KAC) Arts Access Assistance grant program in the upcoming year. Arts Access Assistance (AAA) fosters cultural opportunities for underserved communities:…
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December 2, 2012

Alaska: New Visions for Arts Education

In 2009, the Alaska State Council on the Arts (ASCA) adopted a special arts learning initiative: the New Visions project. This initiative was catalyzed by sobering results from a statewide assessment revealing that 73% of…
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Legislative Update
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Isaac Brown
December 2, 2012

Urgent Federal Policy Matters

With the election cycle finally behind us, I thought it would be instructive to offer an overview of the many policy and political considerations NASAA is monitoring as we head into a new year. As…
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More Notes from NASAA
December 2, 2012

Help in Accessing NASAA Information

Need help accessing member content on the NASAA website? See Login Help or contact NASAA Development and Membership Manager Dora Shick. Make sure your spam filter doesn’t trap emails from NASAA. Place nasaa@nasaa-arts.org in your allowed senders list. Let NASAA…
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Executive Director's Column
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Jonathan Katz
December 2, 2012

Lessons from the 2012 Elections

In Washington, D.C., I have begun to hear former U.S. Speaker of the House Tip O’Neill’s classic observation that “all politics is local” replaced by “all politics is partisan.” NASAA has maintained, since its inception,…
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Research on Demand
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Ryan Stubbs
December 2, 2012

State "Panel Cover Sheets" Now Available

The NASAA research team recently completed two-page documents with basic funding and demographic data for each state, jurisdiction and region. These documents, referred to as “panel cover sheets,” are used by the National Endowment for…
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