Take these easy and quick advocacy steps NOW.
Date Posted: Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Register for Arts Day 2010 for March 24 in Tallahassee.
1. Have you followed through on the following State Action Alerts? Just click on the Alert and please follow through
on the simple action steps outlined for you.
March 2, 2010, Action Alert
February 23, 2010, Action Alert
2. Have you downloaded the Excel file for your Florida county that lists all the state legislators for your county? The
Excel file makes it easy for you to have all the information for your state legislators on your computer so you can more
easily communicate with them.
3. Have you shared with your Florida Representative and Senator our 2010 Legislative Platform, and encouraged
them to support it? Here is another one-page document you can use that clearly shows how the Florida Division of
Cultural Afairs' grants programs have been cut by over 92% since Fiscal Year 2006-2007. Share with them how
important Florida's investments in these grant programs are to your community. Refer to # 4 below for sample talking
points we encourage you to use, along with your own talking points.
4. Have you learned a few key talking points from our sample talking points to use along with your own points about the
importance of Florida's arts and cultural resources to our state's overall economic and qualitative development?
We are part of the solution and are critical to help rebuild a strong, creative, and innovative economy for our state.
Legislators can help create and sustain more jobs throughout Florida by supporting our 2010 Legislative Platform.
They need to hear from you now. Please follow through and let your state policy makers know how important
their support is to sustain these hundreds of long-established private/public partnerships through the Florida
Department of State Divisions of Cultural Affairs' and Historical Resources' grants programs. If you have questions
or need additional information, e-mail us at info@flca.net.
5. Register now for Arts Day 2010 in Tallahassee for March 24. Plan to join arts advocates from throughout Florida to
demonstrate our collective support for arts, arts education, and cultural development. Your participation is important.
Please join us on Wednesday, March 24, in Tallahassee, Florida.
6. Check back here next week to see if there are new advocacy steps you can take. If we all take these steps
together, it will make a difference.
Thank you so much for taking these simple steps to help
advance Florida's arts, arts education, and cultural resources.
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