NASAA recently refreshed a collection of state arts agency performance measurement reports to share as examples of the many approaches to applying and presenting performance metrics. Performance measurement efforts often emerge out of state arts agency planning processes, focusing on specific strategic objectives. In other cases, these agencies must follow strict guidelines from the executive…
NASAA has created a new summary report, State Arts Agency Council Terms, Powers and Duties. For SAA staff and council members, this information provides a national aggregation of council goals, functions and mechanisms to enable comparisons of council practices. The new report considers not only the legislated powers and duties common to many SAA councils…
Periodically, state arts agencies face restructuring conversations occurring within state legislatures or at the executive level. NASAA maintains facts and analysis that can help state arts agencies knowledgeably engage in these conversations. NASAA’s newly released State Arts Agency Placement FAQ uses our historical data sets to answer some questions we commonly receive on this topic, such…
NASAA recently updated its comprehensive database of state arts agency (SAA) grant programs. Based on guidelines available this summer, the database includes nearly 620 SAA grant programs with information on award amounts, adjudication criteria, eligible recipients, policy goals and more. The database enables NASAA to easily search specified criteria to assist states looking for information…
NASAA’s recently updated policy brief, Why Should Government Support the Arts? provides an informed synopsis of the nuanced conversation surrounding public support for the arts. Within the policy brief, common questions such as these: How can we afford to support the arts in hard times? Is support for the arts a partisan issue? are answered…
Periodically, NASAA analyzes state arts agency (SAA) and regional arts organization (RAO) grant-making data in combination with direct grants data from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). This work allows us to see to what extent SAA and RAO grantees “overlap” with NEA direct grantees. Our most recent analysis, for fiscal year 2012, shows…
One common misperception about arts funding is that public support for individual artists disappeared during the culture wars of the 1990s. Although most National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) grants to individual artists were eliminated in 1994, the NEA does maintain Literature Fellowships, Jazz Master Fellowships and National Heritage Fellowships. A much larger public-sector contribution…
If you’re curious about what types of state arts agency research and information are just a phone call or an e-mail away, check out NASAA’s latest Information Services Summary. It provides an overview of NASAA’s research services for members in the first six months of fiscal year 2014. Along with charts and statistics showing NASAA’s…
Visualizing grant-making statistics can be a valuable tool for state arts agencies and their constituents. NASAA can help by mapping where in your state your agency has awarded grants—down to the level of state legislative districts. Mapping the number of grants—and the amount of grant dollars—awarded in each district shows the reach of your agency…
Twice each year, NASAA collects comprehensive information on state arts agency revenues. These data help members put their own budgets in context and provide accurate information about state arts agencies to partners and the public. The most recent survey collected details about budgets for fiscal years 2013 and 2014. NASAA’s latest report, State Arts Agency…
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