advocacy and policy

By building a stronger nationwide advocacy infrastructure, we continue to be a major player in shaping arts policy. Our online Arts Action Center is a virtual toolkit for activists, and the annual Arts Advocacy Day brings entertainment, arts, education, and policy leaders to Capitol Hill to make the case for the arts. To increase policy development activities and advocacy efforts the following strategies have been identified.

• Build a strong national arts policy roundtable of leaders to help frame public- and private-sector cultural policy positions for the advancement of the arts and arts education at the national, state, and local levels
• Develop a wide series of policy discussions and forums to encourage the flow of new ideas for the arts industry
• Work with national, state, and local leadership organizations to familiarize decision makers with cultural policy options and arts support mechanisms
  
  
• Build a larger national advocacy movement for the arts at the national, state, and local levels
• Coordinate and link 50 statewide advocacy efforts to address state issues and form a more cohesive national advocacy force
• Create a team of 50 state advocacy captains to address federal issues at the state level
• Create a national advocacy communications infrastructure with the launch of a national web portal
• Increase advocacy staff at each of the federal, state, and local levels
  
  
• Create a related 501(c)(4) organization and political action committee (PAC)
  • Extend membership invitations to artists, arts management professionals, board leaders, and arts audiences throughout the United States
  • Build a membership base of 100,000 citizen activists
  • Increase membership staff