SAVE ARTS AND CULTURE IN PENNSYLVANIA!

WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TODAY TO HELP SAVE STATE FUNDING FOR ARTS AND CULTURE? Once again we set our sights on Harrisburg and the decisions surrounding this coming year's state budget. Let your state legislators know how important it is that they provide funds for arts and culture in the FY11 budget.
 


   
 

What's at Stake
  Funding for grants through the the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts (PCA).
   
  Funding for museum grants through the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission (PHMC).
   
  The Educational Improvement Tax Credit Program (EITC), which makes tax credits to eligible businesses contributing to a Scholarship Organization, an Educational Improvement Organization, and/or a Pre-Kindergarten Scholarship Organization. Learn more.
   

What You Can Do To Help
  There are a number of things that you and/or your organization can do to help ensure that funding for the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts (PCA) and the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission (PHMC) is included in the final FY11 Pennsylvania State budget bill.
   
  Contact your State legislators today. Letting the policy makers in Harrisburg know that supporting funding for arts and culture in the state budget is important to you as a constituent is imperative.
 
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Tips for contacting legislators
 
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Facts and figures to help you make the case for funding arts and culture
     
  Engage your audiences in the fight to save funding for arts and culture. Make curtain speeches, print gallery cards, include inserts in your programs or have links to online petitions on your organizations' website and social networking ventures (Facebook, myspace, etc.).
   
  Make a Creative Case for Arts and Culture Funding. In the battle to keep funding for arts and culture in the FY11 Pennsylvania state budget it is important that we find creative ways to tell our stories and make our arguments. See some examples of the creative messaging used in last year's advocacy.
   
  Circulate this message as widely as possible. Send this call to action to your staff and board members, your organization's members, ticket buyers, email lists and any other outlets that you can think of. Harrisburg needs to hear from more than just the arts and cultural organizations.
   
  Stay informed. Sign up to receive e-advocacy alerts and become part of the Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council's Advocacy Action Squad.
   

News
  History sadly repeats in Pennsylvania Legislature (1/31/10) - The Patriot News
  House begins discussing Pa. 2010-11 budget (1/28/10) - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
   

Links
  Some other ways to follow the state budget situation.
   
  Capitol Ideas Blog - From John L. Micek of Harrisburg
  Save the Arts in PA website - updated news, links and resources on the situation.
  Follow the Save the Arts in PA twitter stream.
   

For more information about the state budget, or if you or your organization would like to assist the Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council with advocacy on this or other issues, please contact Ryan Freytag, Manager of Cultural Policy and Research or call 412.391.2060 x232.

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