After the first notifications from the National Endowment of the Arts to organizations, Topos Partnership created this communications tool for your public communication about a recently rescinded or terminated NEA grant. You can use this guide to create a statement about the intended community impact of a lost grant. Of course, you can and should mention this loss in the … [Read more...] about How to Talk About a Terminated NEA Grant
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How to Talk about Saving the NEA
Update: It's the 2018 2020 redux. The President's budget proposes to eliminate the NEA, National Endowment for the Humanities, Institute of Museum and Library Services, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Arts advocates and administrators have responded with pleas that federal arts funding is important and can’t be lost without ‘devastating’ consequences for arts … [Read more...] about How to Talk about Saving the NEA
Don’t Make People Think About Guns, If You Want to Fund the Arts
Excellent news this week as Congress said ‘NO’ to the President’s request to eliminate funding for the arts. How did that happen? With a lot of heavy lifting. Every time we fight this fight (and it happens every few years) we have to call on advocates from every congressional district to lobby their elected officials. We have to ask our business leaders and celebrities to … [Read more...] about Don’t Make People Think About Guns, If You Want to Fund the Arts