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NASAA Notes: January 2012

January
2012

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State to State

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Legislative Update

  • NASAA's Bipartisan Advocacy Scores on Capitol Hill

Executive Director's Column

  • Keeping State Arts Agencies Strong

Research on Demand

  • State Arts Agency Structure within State Government
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State to State
January 11, 2012

Advocacy Toolkits

Systematic contact with legislators is a key ingredient of successful arts advocacy. Because January is the month in which many state legislatures will reconvene and begin working on fiscal year 2013 budgets, this edition of…

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Legislative Update
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Thomas L. Birch

January 11, 2012

NASAA's Bipartisan Advocacy Scores on Capitol Hill

NASAA’s bipartisan approach to advocacy delivered a strong position for state arts agencies in the final 2012 budget plan Congress approved for the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). Throughout the year, NASAA relied on…

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Executive Director's Column
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Jonathan Katz

January 11, 2012

Keeping State Arts Agencies Strong

At this time of reflection, I thought it might be useful to revisit a column I wrote about three years ago, as the latest economic downturn was gaining momentum and it was becoming clear that…

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Research on Demand
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Kelly J. Barsdate

January 11, 2012

State Arts Agency Structure within State Government

State arts agencies occupy a wide variety of structural positions within state government. Nearly half of all state arts agencies (22) are independent, reporting directly to the governor. Other state arts agencies are divisions of…

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