On Monday, the President released his FY2019 Budget Proposal, which once again calls for the elimination of the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and many other important agencies...
July 14, 2017 On Wednesday, the House Appropriations subcommittee on the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies unanimously approved a bill proposing $145 million in funding for the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) for FY2018. Though this rebuke of...
On Wednesday, June 14, the National Endowment for the Arts announced its second round of funding for the current fiscal year, which runs through September 30, 2018. The arts agency, which is the only funder in the country to support...
The President’s budget came out this week, which proposed the elimination of the National Endowment for the Arts and other cultural agencies. We need you now more than ever to continue your fight to #SAVEtheNEA. As you know, Minnesota...
As an advocate for the arts, you understand the power and importance of language and literature, and the strength gained in sharing one’s work with a community. The literary arts enrich our lives and open doors to knowledge and understanding....
Your advocacy is working! Thank you for sending emails, making phone calls and personal visits, and writing op-eds. Congress has reached a bipartisan agreement on a bill to fully fund the National Endowment for the Arts and the National...
Your representatives are now home for April recess. Take a few minutes to give them a call and ask them to #SaveTheNEA. As you know from our previous LitNet Advocacy Alerts, the President wants to eliminate funding for the...
As you know, earlier this month the White House proposed eliminating all funding for the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities in next year’s federal budget. We have all been aggressively fighting to...
As news about the potential defunding of the NEA continues to spread across the nation, LitNet has responded by reaching out to organizations who have been recipients of NEA support. We’ve asked them to share their stories about how...