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ARTS ACTION ALERT FEDERAL BUDGET NEWS: from For a third-straight year, the Trump administration has proposed to eliminate the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), and the Corporation of Public Broadcasting (CPB).?As misdirected as this proposal is, we are confident that Congress—as it has done in the past two fiscal years—will again reject this short-sighted budget request in a bipartisan, bicameral manner, and increase funding for the Endowments.? Will you??today to urge them to reject the president's proposal??? Congress not only dismissed these initial?calls for termination, but in fact gave steady increases in funding to several cultural agencies.?Check out a brief history of budgetary proposals and final funding for these agencies for the past three years below: ? Saving the cultural agencies happened because?thousands of arts advocates made their voices heard on Capitol Hill.??Use??to take a few minutes to contact your member of Congress now!?Also, be sure to check out Americans for the Arts President and CEO Robert L. Lynch's??regarding the president's budget proposal. ? STATE BUDGET NEWS:? We are grateful to Governor Newsom for his proposed budget increase of $10 million in permanent funding for the California Arts Council but the legislature needs to hear from you that this is meaningful and should be supported. Please??to vote for this increase. Tweet or email your support today! PENDING LEGISLATION California? authored by?Senator Henry Stern. Please show your support today and email to?Shaina.Brown@... Sample email: Dear Senator Stern: Thank you for your work to advance the arts and arts education in California. We want to express our support for the Youth Poet Laureate Bill SB748. What a wonderful expression of hope and empowerment for our youth and for the advancement of the arts to have a statewide representative for poetry. We believe California is?The?State of the Arts and with programs like this we will truly be known as the leading state of creativity. ARTS ADVOCACY NEWS: April is in California! See you how you can participate in your community?. Why are the arts the first thing to be cut when priorities shift or the economy weakens? We need to make sure our legislators know how important and impactful the arts are to our lives, our communities, our children, our state and our economy. JOIN US in SACRAMENTO on APRIL 23 for ADVOCACY DAY. We need you to show up for the Arts! Please today.? We will assign you a delegation so you can visit legislators in the afternoon. If you cannot attend one of our advocacy trainings before the 23rd, we will provide you with facts to share and a brief training in the morning. Come be inspired and share your arts impact story.? Need a hotel for the night of April 22 in Sacramento? Special hotel rates available for Arts, Culture & Creativity Advocacy Day attendees! To make your reservations, please click . ARTS ADVOCACY TRAININGS A series of Public Workshops MARCH 2019 This April is the inaugural Arts, Culture & Creativity for the state of California! There will be events statewide advancing the arts, all leading up to the Advocacy Day on April 23. Our Advocacy Trainings are free and open to the public to help empower and educate you to become an Arts Advocate not only in your local community, but on April 23 in Sacramento at the Capitol as part of your district delegation (we hope you can make it!). Even if you can't attend on April 23, this Advocacy Training is a great resource to help you and your community members gain basic skills and knowledge as to how to best advocate for the arts in your city. Go from being an Arts Supporter to an Arts Advocate! Please join us and share with friends and family in the area! Register: San Jose March 19, 6:00pm-8:00pm ?|? Grass Valley March 20, 5:00pm-7:00pm ?|? San Diego March 21, 6:00pm-8:00pm ?|? Arts Advocacy Training Webinar March 25, 11:00am-12:30pm ?|? Los Angeles March 30, 10:00am-12:00pm ?|? Don't see an Advocacy Training near you? Join us from your home or office for our online Arts Advocacy Training Webinar March 25, 11:00am-12:30pm Led by Californians for the Arts Executive Director Julie Baker and Advocacy Committee Chair Sofia Klatzker, this 90 minute training will equip you with tools to effectively communicate with your local, county and state representatives, give you other ways to engage in your community including sharing your Arts Impact Story, and inspire you to become an Arts Advocate. Do you have an upcoming event that helps further our mission? Event submissions are limited to California based events that are educational / action focused such as conferences, summits,?initiatives, workshops and webinars, as well as events that further advance arts / artist advocacy on state and national levels. Left to Right, Lita Reyes, Reyes Philanthropic Solutions, Brad Erickson, CFTA Treasurer, Julie Baker, CFTA ED, Bob Lynch, AFTA President, Victoria Hamilton,CFTA Board President, Nina Ozlu Tunceli, Executive Director, Arts Action Fund. Do you believe arts being accessible for every Californian is imperative? Do you feel California should be the leading creative state? Do you think arts and artists can play a vital role in solving some of California’s greatest challenges? Do you want to see funding to match these goals? Then it is time to support Californians for the Arts, your statewide arts advocacy organization. As we gear up to actively work with a new administration to publicly fund the arts at historic levels and build our delegate programs with trainings across the state, your support for our organization is needed now more than ever. Please join online today! Follow us on Instagram! We're new!! @CAfortheArts ?Californians for the Arts is made possible by

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