Action Center

State Campaigns Federal Issues

Urge Support for the Arts During the COVID-19 Outbreak

Current Ask: Request your members of Congress ensure Congress will include $4 billion—to be distributed though the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)—to help offset the losses of the nonprofit arts industry, and expand eligibility through additional federal...

Urge Congress to Cosponsor Two Creative Economy Bills

On Arts Advocacy Day, Sen. Tom Udall (D-NM) announced new legislation to strengthen the creative economy to a crowd of over 500 arts advocates. Entitled Comprehensive Resources for Entrepreneurs in the Arts to Transform the Economy (CREATE) Act (S.2648), the comprehensive...

Support a Universal Charitable Deduction to Encourage Charitable Giving

Current Ask: Request your representative restore the full value and scope of the charitable deduction by supporting one or more of the bills in the 116th Congress that would create a Universal Charitable Deduction to incentivize all taxpayers to give to charities,...

The Arts in Juvenile Justice

For Fiscal Year (FY) 2021, we urge Congress to: Appropriate $61.5 million for Title V Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention Incentive Grants at the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP). Include report language...

Increase NEA Funding!

Current Ask: Request your members of Congress sign onto the letters asking the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and the National Endowment for the Humanities be funded at a level of $170 million for fiscal year (FY) 2021. Background: In January 2020, the second...

Help us advocate for Creative Districts in Nebraska

LB943: Creative Districts This bill authorizes the Nebraska Arts Council to develop and recommend to the Legislature for the certification and establishment of Creative Districts in the state. The plan will include how the Nebraska Arts Council would establish a competitive...

Help us advocate for "Support the Arts" license plates in Nebraska

LB942: “Support the Arts” License Plates A number of states have a specialty art license plate, with distinctive designs and arts messages that help promote their state. This license plate will help citizens celebrate and show support for the arts in Nebraska. Proceeds...

Urge Congress to Cosponsor the STAR Act

On June 24, 2019, Rep. Alma Adams (D-NC) introduced H.R. 3437, the Saving Transit Art Resources (STAR) Act, which would reinstate flexibility and allow local transit authorities to incorporate art into federally-funded transit projects and facilities. It removes a recent,...