NASAA has released its State Legislative Roundup 2017, the latest iteration of its annual survey of state legislation important to state arts agencies and their constituencies. In highlighting more than 100 bills considered by state legislatures this year—which NASAA curated from the 400 bills it reviewed—the report assesses current trends in cultural policy around the…
Grant-making statistics can speak volumes in articulating the value of state arts agencies and public funding of the arts. With data from Final Descriptive Reports, in particular, NASAA’s research team can create customized arts advocacy tools to help you demonstrate the benefits of arts funding in your state. Such tools include: Visualizing grant making: NASAA…
The FY2018 State Arts Agency Legislative Appropriations Preview provides a succinct forecast of state government funding for the arts in the new fiscal year, which for most states started July 1, 2017. The report includes aggregate funding trends, state-by-state appropriations figures, percentage changes from fiscal years 2017 to 2018 and per capita ranking. These figures are merely…
State arts agency grant-making data, as provided to NASAA through Final Descriptive Reports, are an important source for describing ways in which state arts agencies serve the public. Updated periodically, NASAA’s Grant Making page provides key facts on state arts agency grant-making functions, including: General Operating Support Support for Individual Artists Support for Arts Education…
NASAA’s brand-new tool, the Creative Work Force State Profiles, lets you explore employment and compensation in your state’s arts and culture sectors. Created in cooperation with the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), with data from the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis Arts and Cultural Production Satellite Account (ACPSA), this interactive dashboard quantifies the contributions of the…
NASAA compiles information request data every six months and consistently reports on current year data. For the first time, as part of a comprehensive planning effort, we are publishing a long-term analysis of information requests for data spanning from 2004 to 2016, comprised of over 3,700 individual requests for information. The resulting Information Request Analysis is chock-full of…
Legislative sessions are in full swing, and to help with advocacy efforts, NASAA is highlighting its newly updated appropriations tool, which estimates a state’s arts funding per capita amount and rank based on a theoretical legislative appropriations amount. To use the interactive chart, select your state, choose to include or exclude line items, and enter your…
As state and federal budgeting processes kick into high gear, NASAA’s research team is ready to deliver custom data to help you make your case. One resource, now available for every state upon request, are National Endowment for the Arts Arts Investment Fact Sheets. Tailored to your agency, they are intended to assist members with…
As part of the NEA State Partnership Agreement panel review, a cover sheet accompanies each state arts agency’s application that includes state demographic and geographic information as well as a five-year history of the SAA’s state and NEA funding. NASAA assists this process at the request of and with guidance from the NEA Partnership Office…
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