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Los Angeles Times - Culture Monster April 13, 2010  The United States government should start thinking of the arts as a tool, if not exactly a weapon, in the nation's military campaigns and diplomatic initiatives, a recently retired ...more

Newly updated in Spring 2012   PDF of Useful Quotes for Arts Advocates Advocacy Tip: A quote from an elected official representing your district or your community’s mayor, or a local business leader can be a smart, effecti...more

Connect with Your State's Arts Advocacy Organizations and Initiatives     Alabama Alabama Alliance for Arts Education Alaska Alaska Arts Education Consortium Inc. Arizona Arizona Citizens/Action for t...more

Stanford Professor of Organizational Behavior Chip Heath has pursued an intriguing line of research in his work exploring what makes ideas stick and how the “stickiness” of urban legends can be instructive in this arena.   The...more

Arts Advocacy Toolkits A well-designed, robust arts advocacy toolkit can train and empower advocates and can support action. Below please find an annotated list of arts advocacy toolkits that highlights some of their unique features as well a...more

In an easy-to-replicate example of outreach and relationship building with the business community, the California Alliance for Arts Education is featuring a guest blogger on its website--Chris Cochran, the head of Community Affairs for Stone Bre...more

The American Association of Museums (AAM) has created a rich resource, Congress 101, in the advocacy section of AAM's website. Visit this resource to access tools to keep up with legislative progress, get basic information about House and Senate C...more

Josie Rourke, artistic director of the Bush theatre, and Observer writer Sean O' Hagan discuss whether funding matters in a provocative point/counterpoint piece published in The Observer (UK). www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/may/30/agen...more

Johns Hopkins University's Center for Civil Society Studies has produced a number of communiqués as part of its Listening Project which is systematically monitoring the nonprofit sector in the United States. The document below, Report on th...more

The resignation of the chair of the British Columbia Arts Council is a dramatic act driven by frustration and disappointment. Perhaps it is just the sort of bold stand by a civic leader that can generate change when circumstances are bleak. What do y...more