by Citizens For The Arts in Pennsylvania Jenny Hershour, Managing Director Late yesterday afternoon, by a vote of 108-92, the Pennsylvania House of Representatives passed HB 1437, often referred to as the Budget Bill. This $28.3 billion bill includes the following: $932,000 for administration of the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts (PCA) $8.179 million for [...]
***Source: Performing Arts Alliance The President released his FY2014 budget proposal. Due in February, the budget arrived two months later than normal and after both the House and Senate have released their own budgets. Below are highlights from the budget proposal as it effects the performing arts field. Nonprofits Defend Charitable Giving Incentives As budget [...]
“Not often does one paraphrase [the character] Napoleon of Animal Farm, George Orwell’s literary stand-in for Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, but perhaps it is fitting when it comes to sequestration: ‘All cuts are equal, but some cuts are more equal than others.’” –Edward Headington, The Huffington Post, 2/27/13 Ok, the world did not come to [...]
SOURCE: Press Release from the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance Harrisburg, PA — The Pennsylvania General Assembly has taken a step to recognize and advance the Commonwealth’s creative economy with the establishment of the Pennsylvania Legislative Arts & Culture Caucus. This bipartisan and bicameral caucus was established with the support of the Pennsylvania Arts & Culture [...]
The fiscal cliff is just days away and while Americans believe it’s critical that Congress and the President reach a timely compromise on the issue, many remain skeptical about their ability to do so. For many the fiscal cliff is still some confusing, abstract concept, but it has real consequences to the arts and dance [...]
By Americans for the Arts As Congress and the White House consider various proposals to avoid the impending fiscal cliff scenario of more than $600 billion in federal spending cuts and tax increases for 2013, some have set their sights on limiting the deductions for charitable gifts and possibly even the status of nonprofit organizations [...]
As already reported in our editorial, there a number of critical policies that effect the arts, which are currently on hold as Congress recesses for the electoral process. The arts and arts education have once again come under fire with regards to both funding and policy. It is even further unclear, that upon return for [...]
Re-post from Nancy DeLucia, Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance Last night at 11:45pm, Governor Corbett signed the general fund budget for FY 2012-13. After months of negotiations, Governor Corbett and the General Assembly came to a consensus on a final “spend number” of $27.656 billion, which was $517 million more than the Governor had initially proposed [...]
President Obama released his FY13 federal budget proposal to Congress, which serves as a starting point for the Congressional appropriations process. The proposed budget addresses funding for the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), the Arts in Education Programs at the U.S. Department of Education, and charitable giving incentives. The budget proposal includes the following: National [...]
by The Performing Arts Alliance the Coalition of Performing Arts Advocates Year-End Congressional Update In the last days of 2011, issues important to the nonprofit performing arts community may see movement in Washington, DC, including funding for the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and the Arts in Education program at the Department of Education. Congressional [...]
