NEA and Economic Stimulus

Economic Stimulus BillAmerican Recovery & Reinvestment Act

February 17, 2009

3rd Parties: National School Boards Association &

Americans for the Arts

• Grassroots campaigns

• Americans for the Arts: Arts Action Fund mobilizes arts activists and persuades elected officials through form letters

• NAMM, AFA, and Disney

• Get the pork barrel spending out! $300,000 for a sculpture garden through the NEA is unneccesary. -Republican Representative Eric Cantor, VA

• We have real people out of work...putting $50 million in the NEA and pretending that’s going to save jobs...is disingenuous. -Republican Representative Jack Kingston, GA

Non-Supporter Interests & Positions (culture clash and agenda fulfillment)

• Coburn Amendment: Oklahoma Senator: “None of the amounts appropriated or otherwise made available by this Act may be used for any casino or other gambling establishment, aquarium, zoo, golf course, swimming pool, stadium, community park, museum, theater, art center, and highway beautification project.” Passed 73-24; AFA convinced Congress that nonprofit arts organizations and artists contribute to the workforce and economy.

http://blog.entrepreneurthearts.com/2009/02/07/us-senate-arts-stimulus-support/

www.boston.com/ae/theater_arts/articles/2009/02/05/stimulus_funding_for_arts_hits_nerve/

Negotiations Training Institute: Houston, Texas

KNOWING HOW TO GIVE WILL HELP YOU RECEIVE

Find out what each side really wants and what they are willing to give and give up to get it.

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“Arts=Jobs”

http://www.vimeo.com/3616140

Ben Cameron: affiliationFeb. 24, Illinois Arts Alliance

Previous Executive Director of Theatre Communications Group, now at Doris Duke Charitable Foundation (PSAs)

Supporter Interests & Positions(money, people, and art)

• The vision of AFA is that the arts are recognized as integral to the lives of all people and essential to the health and vitality of communities and the nation. www.americansforthearts.org/about_us/

• Goals: build awareness for the value of the arts, generate public and private sector policies, increase resources, ensure the operational stability of organizations through GOVT. FUNDING as the buoy in the recession (from AFA Strategic Plan)

• What’s next: FY2010 appropriations bill

President Obama & Robert L. Lynchtaking action (power)

• Robert L. Lynch in front of the House Committee on Education and Labor, March 26th (knowing the other party, using objective criteria for this highly objective group)

Metropolitan Museum of Art opening of the American Wing May 18

Status, Role Change, Affiliation, Objective Criteria

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Michelle Obama

Josh Groban, Linda Ronstadt, Wynton Marsalis

• House Appropriations Subcommittee on Interior,

• Over 83 National CoSponsors

• Affiliation: the Panel started to talk about their music training

• Status, Emotions

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Advice to Both Parties:• AFFILIATION

• LISTEN TO EACH OTHER

• KEEP GATHERING SUPPORT! KNOW THE OTHER PARTY’S INTERESTS, KNOW WHERE THE POWER LIES

• USE METAPHORS!

• IN THE WORDS OF WYNTON MARSALIS

Economic Stimulus BillAmerican Recovery & Reinvestment Act

February 17, 2009