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Subscribe to AAC Newsletter to receive updates on National Arts Advocacy Study Centering Global Majority Artists & Arts Administrators! 

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Subscribe to AAC Newsletter to receive updates on National Arts Advocacy Study Centering Global Majority Artists & Arts Administrators! 

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Subscribe - Arts Administrators of Color Network

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In partnership with the state and jurisdictional arts agencies and regional arts organizations, the National Endowment for the Arts provides federal support for projects that benefit local communities.

The Partnership Agreements for the state arts agencies provide funds to address priorities identified at the state level and that address Arts Endowment outcomes.

The regional arts organizations, each representing a geographic grouping of states, assist the National Endowment for the Arts in distributing funds and programs nationally through touring and other activities that are responsive to the needs of the region and that address Arts Endowment outcomes.

State, Regional, and Jurisdictional Art Agencies

Regional Arts Organizations

U.S. Regional Arts Organizations Web Site
http://www.usregionalarts.org

Arts Midwest
3033 Excelsior Boulevard #380
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55416
612/341-0755
TT/Voice: 612/341-0901
general@artsmidwest.org
Member states: IA, IL, IN, MI, MN, ND, OH, SD, WI

Mid Atlantic Arts
201 North Charles Street, #401
Baltimore, MD 21201
410/539-6656
TT: 410/539-4241
maaf@midatlanticarts.org
Member states: DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA, PR, VA, VI, WV

State and Jurisdictional Arts Agencies

Delaware Division of the Arts
State Office Building
820 North French Street
Wilmington, DE 19801
302/577-8278 (from New Castle County)
302/739-5304 (from Kent or Sussex Counties)
TT/Relay: 1-800-232-5460
delarts@delaware.gov

Florida Division of Cultural Affairs
R.A. Gray Building, 3rd Floor
500 South Bronough Street
Tallahassee, Florida 32399-0250
850/245-6470
TT: 904/488-5779
info@florida-arts.org

Guam Council on the Arts & Humanities
Office of the Governor
P.O. Box 2950
Hagatna, GU 96932
011-671/475-2242
arts@ns.gov.nu

Iowa Arts Council
600 East Locust
State Capitol Complex
Des Moines, IA 50319
515/281-8741

Kansas Creative Arts Industries Commission
1000 S.W. Jackson St.
Suite 100
Topeka, KS 66612
785/296-2178

Division of the Arts
Louisiana Department of Culture, Recreation, & Tourism
1051 North 3rd Street
P.O. Box 44247
Baton Rouge, LA 70804
225/342-8180
arts@crt.state.la.us

New Mexico Arts
Bataan Memorial Building
407 Galisteo St, Ste 270
Santa Fe NM 87501-2641
505/827-6490
TT: 505/827-6925

North Carolina Arts Council
109 East Jones Street
Raleigh, NC 27601
919/807-6500/919-814-6500
ncarts@ncmail.net | ncarts@ncdcr.gov

Commonwealth Council for Arts & Culture
P.O. Box 553, CHRB
CNMI Convention Center
Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands
Saipan, MP 96950
9-011-670-322-9982

Tennessee Arts Commission
Citizens Plaza
401 Charlotte Avenue
Nashville, TN 37243-0780
615/741-1701

Virginia Commission for the Arts
Main Street Centre
600 E. Main Street
Richmond, Virginia 23219
804/225-3132
TT: 804/225-3132
arts@arts.virginia.gov

Arts & Humanities Section
West Virginia Division of Culture & History
1900 Kanawha Blvd. East
Capitol Complex
Charleston, WV 25305-0300
304/558-0220
TT: 304/348-0220

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In partnership with the state and jurisdictional arts agencies and regional arts organizations, the National Endowment for the Arts provides federal support for projects that benefit local communities. The Partnership Agreements for the state arts agencies provide funds to address priorities identified at the state level and that address Arts Endowment outcomes.

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On one hand, teachers are professionals at teaching. With proper preparation they can scaffold a lesson or unit on any dance style. That could look like students reflecting on video examples, reading articles...

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Arts Education Partnership - Arts Education Partnership

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Arts Education Partnership is a national network of more than 100 organizations dedicated to advancing arts education.

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Capacity for staff

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General operations/admin support

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Support for young people by giving monetary rewards for competitions and purchasing their art

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Multi-year support

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Data collection related to our outcomes

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Support for convening folks/building on-going coalitions (not just project-based)

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Unrestricted dollars

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Operational support to pay ED and staff 

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Operational support to pay ED and staff 

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Staffing

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General support is the best and allows us to do the most with it.

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Basic training—grant writing and administration

Professional Development

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Funding of summer programs to provide tuition free programming for families that need the resource.

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Staff, training, storytelling, capacity building 

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Staff, training, storytelling, capacity building 

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Staffing full time artists and administrators

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Operating support

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Health insurance for teaching artists and other freelance performing arts educators!!

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Curriculum development + instructional desigb

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Curriculum development + instructional desigb

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Funding for program staff and transportation support for participants

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Funding for program staff and transportation support for participants

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Support for local arts networks

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New technology

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Pay Artists Immediately and Directly (P.A.I.D.)

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Multiyear funding that includes operations not just one time funding for one performance project

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Funding for travel so students and staff can work with other orgs

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Funding for travel so students and staff can work with other orgs

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Multi year funding

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Full Time salary for teaching artists.

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Unrestricted funds. Just give us the money to figure it out

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Unrestricted funds. Just give us the money to figure it out

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More staff

Money to offer programming for free

Money for advocacy

Money for marketing

Money for an art mobile to get to rural communities

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Authentic storytelling via communications  

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Authentic storytelling via communications  

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Capacity building (Money for scaling and staff)

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Support funding salary increases for teachers and staff (rather than specific programs) 

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Support funding salary increases for teachers and staff (rather than specific programs) 

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Salaries that sustain people’s lives make the orgs more sustainable?

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Unrestricted support for part-time teaching artists to become full-time

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Unrestricted support for part-time teaching artists to become full-time

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Resources for continuing education programs 

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Resources for continuing education programs 

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We're often in a bit of limbo being part of colleges/universities but not receiving enough support from the larger institution.

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Financial aid support for adult learners

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Financial aid support for adult learners

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Arts professionals need to make respectable living wages so that organizations can sustain their work instead of burning out.

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Arts professionals need to make respectable living wages so that organizations can sustain their work instead of burning out.

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Funding for staff salaries

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National Hip Hop Education Confernce

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We need more funding for staff, especially program coordinators, specialists, and managers that serve as the liaison between the vision and the youth.

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Funding to support infrastructure such as technolgy

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Funding to support infrastructure such as technolgy

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More resources for paid youth boards or youth councils in order to support more opportunities for youth leadership

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Funding for youth arts employment

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Education on what to advocate for and how to tell the story

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Education on what to advocate for and how to tell the story

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What about collaborative funding? Working with other organizations to receive funding?

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Funding for the development of regional and local advocacy toolkits that we as an RAO can share with our constituents and partners. 

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Funding for the development of regional and local advocacy toolkits that we as an RAO can share with our constituents and partners. 

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Cohort of folks within the field of CYD to share best practices

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Cohort of folks within the field of CYD to share best practices

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assistance filling out the NEA or other state fundings application- I’ve seen the rubrics but need someone to read the draft and give feedback 😊

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A thriving wage for Teaching artists and accountability measures for organizations that hire them

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A thriving wage for Teaching artists and accountability measures for organizations that hire them

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General operating to expand staff capacity.

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Unrestricted funding

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Need more staff support and funds for supporting rural or communities that can’t afford to travel to convenings.

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Funding for Teaching Artists to have sustainable full time roles

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Funding with caveats for changes when the partner closes/shifts gears/loses additional funding that supports 

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Funding with caveats for changes when the partner closes/shifts gears/loses additional funding that supports 

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Creating Digital Resource for Hip Hop Education 

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Creating Digital Resource for Hip Hop Education 

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Funding for collective impact intermediaries who can support and advocate for youth arts programs of all sizes throughout a city or region. 

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Funding for collective impact intermediaries who can support and advocate for youth arts programs of all sizes throughout a city or region. 

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The ability to invest in quality, environmentally safe art materials.

To expand into creative aging communities.

Increase our program offerings to our growing teen community and start a youth council. (CYD)

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Board training (best practices, DEI, etc)

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Board training (best practices, DEI, etc)

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I would like to see more peer funders invest in advocacy and advocacy infrastructure. Also, for those funders to provide general operating support to allow grantees flexibility in meeting their missions.

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Grants for community re-granting to small community orgs/projects

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Grants for community re-granting to small community orgs/projects

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Additional staff

Program supplies

Program Equipment upgrades to sustain program

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Assistance to secure healthcare for administrators and educators 

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Assistance to secure healthcare for administrators and educators 

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Not being penalized for building out a robust operations infrastructure 

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Not being penalized for building out a robust operations infrastructure 

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Thinking about the high level of focus on overhead. The needs are very different depending on the org.

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Early education

Another staff member

Subsidies for artistic creation space (public 3rd spaces)

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Workforce development for teaching artist apprentices.

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Tuition assistance dollars to provide programming for every student that desires to study the art form.

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Tuition assistance dollars to provide programming for every student that desires to study the art form.

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so much of the time we operate in a space of scarcity/urgency that doesn’t allow organizations time to take time to sit back, truly reflect, digest our successes and failures and adjust accordingly. i’ve been so so grateful to work in programs where a research/feedback process centering community stakeholders is funded (with stipends for participants, budget for food/gatherings, etc) and it’s transformative! more of that!

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What to do when your long time foundation has drastically cut your budget?

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What to do when your long time foundation has drastically cut your budget?

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Funding to support data and evaluation capacity

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Funding to support data and evaluation capacity

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-UNRESTRICTED GENERAL OPERATING FUNDS!!

-Increasing salary and benefits of staff

-Capital funds

-Role of support for ED, development director, and finance director and general admin assistance

-Role of research / advocacy

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artist hubs: housing, black box theatres, studio spaces, platforms to present/share/sell work

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Paid internship for young students to experience of working in community arts center and impact the community 

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Paid internship for young students to experience of working in community arts center and impact the community 

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Research for creating state consortium, artist & teaching artist roster 

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Research for creating state consortium, artist & teaching artist roster 