Impact of Federal Relief Funding for Arts and Culture A new study, Following the Funding: Distribution of Federal COVID-19 Relief Funds for the Arts and Culture Sector, conducted by SMU DataArts, presents a comprehensive analysis of the distribution of the unprecedented $53 billion in federal relief funding across four key programs—Paycheck Protection Program; Shuttered Venue…
NASAA Answers Your Questions As part of NASAA’s service to state arts agencies and the greater arts and cultural field, NASAA responds to requests for information on a wide variety of arts, culture and economic topics. In fiscal year 2023, NASAA staff fulfilled nearly 270 of these information requests from state and jurisdictional arts agencies…
Nonprofit Data Source and Research Tool Candid provides free demographic data, alongside other for-cost data sets, on nonprofit organizations’ board and staff. The demographic data set currently contains over 62,000 nonprofits, with 1,000 of the organizations updating their profiles with new data each month. More information on tapping into Candid’s demographic data can be found…
NASAA has published a series of grant making fact sheets that provide a comprehensive overview of state arts agency (SAA) grant making in specific areas of interest. In addition to our current collection, four new fact sheets further enhance understanding of states’ public funding for the arts. Social Vulnerability Percentage below Poverty Grants by Organizational…
Evolving Museum Practice: Repatriation, Restitution, Reparations The American Alliance of Museums (AAM) is launching a project aimed at addressing evolving values regarding the ownership and control of museum collections, titled, The Next Horizon of Museum Practice: Voluntary Repatriation, Restitution, and Reparations. AAM has released a paper that introduces the framework and sets the stage for…
2023 Grants Database Update NASAA’s Grant Programs Database has been updated to reflect FY2023 and FY2024 (where available) guidelines. Part of our suite of programmatic research resources, the database is a powerful tool for analyzing state arts agencies’ grant programs and providing replicable examples and best practices for NASAA members. The database includes more than…
National Arts Participation Surveys The National Endowment for the Arts has published two analyses of the survey measuring arts participation during the pandemic. Arts Participation Patterns in 2022: Highlights from the Survey of Public Participation in the Arts and Online Audiences for Arts Programming: A Survey of Virtual Participation amid COVID-19 examine arts participation in-person…
Updates to State Arts Agency Artist Fellowships Strategy Sampler NASAA has just released an update to the State Arts Agency Artist Fellowships Strategy Sampler. The updated strategy sampler draws on fiscal year 2020 Final Descriptive Report data and grant guidelines collected in 2022 to provide comparisons among 32 state arts agency (SAA) fellowship programs, with…
Elements of Strategic Planning The Bridgespan Group has published an article advising on strategic planning. How Nonprofits and NGOs Can Get Real Value from Strategic Planning shares four vital elements to strategic planning: clarifying strategy, setting strategic priorities, estimating resources and planning implementation. These four elements are key to decision making and realizing value. Each…
NASAA has released the FY2024 State Arts Agency Legislative Appropriations Preview, providing a forecast of legislative appropriations for the arts in all 56 states and jurisdictions for the upcoming fiscal year. Projected for FY2024, total aggregated appropriations to state arts agencies (totaling $706.3 million) are anticipated to decrease by 27.3%, primarily due to a 63%…
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