MCA Joins the Modern Age
12/15/05
Give the Gift of Arts Advocacy!
MCA Joins the Modern Age:
We are very happy to announce that you can now join MCA on-line securely here.
As a supporter of Minnesota’s arts community, you know that it is important for us to speak with a strong and focused voice. By renewing your membership with Minnesota Citizens for the Arts, you are helping our community to build strong messages of public support for the arts and deliver those messages to policy makers, legislators and the citizens of Minnesota.
It’s the perfect holiday activity!
As a member of MCA, you can be a part of mobilizing and strengthening the statewide arts community. MCA’s Annual Arts Advocacy Day is coming up on March 9th, 2006. This free event brings arts advocates from all over the state to the state capitol to meet with their legislators in support of the arts. Arts Advocacy Day 2006 will feature the release of the first ever Regional and Statewide Economic Impact Study of the Arts and Culture. This groundbreaking new study will provide innovative tools for arts advocates to make the case for the arts as an economic engine when they meet with their legislators, community groups and neighbors.
The upcoming year is an important one for the arts. Last year we were able to hold our own and maintain stable state arts funding in a difficult deficit year. As we make plans for the next year, it is with the knowledge that all elected offices, including the Governor and all members of the House and Senate, will be up for re-election in November 2006. As a renewing member you will be a part of this campaign and will have access to the strongest arts advocacy network in America. Our network will educate and empower voters who value the arts and will encourage them to interact with the candidates so that our message is heard and acted upon.
Support from individual arts advocates like you plays an essential role in the arts community’s continuing success. You can be a part of MCA’s mission to ensure opportunity for all people to have access to and involvement in the arts.Please renew your membership today! Together we will build a bright future for the arts in Minnesota.
http://www.mtn.org/mca
Your frequently updated, one-stop site for:
information about Minnesota Citizens for the Arts
how you can get involved
an Action Center called the DESKTOP LOBBYIST where you can write a letter to your legislator
or even find out who your legislators are
facts about the arts in Minnesota
the latest on legislative and congressional action on arts issue
And more!
Join Our Arts Advocacy Family
Minnesota Citizens for the Arts is funded entirely by the dues of its members. Do you appreciate receiving up to the minute news on the fate of the arts in the Minnesota State Legislature and Congress? We could not provide Arts Alerts if it weren’t for the wonderful and committed arts advocates who show their commitment by joining MCA. You can join by printing out the membership form on our website at http://www.mtn.org/mca. Individual dues are just $30, and a household membership is just $40. Thank you!
Minnesota Citizens for the Arts is a non-partisan statewide arts advocacy organization whose mission is to ensure opportunity for all people to have access to and involvement in the arts. MCA organizes the arts community and lobbies the Minnesota State Legislature and Congress on issues pertaining to the nonprofit arts. If you are interested in learning more about how to advocate for the arts, or how to activate people in your arts organization or community to lobby for the arts, please call us at 651-251-0868 or e-mail mca@mtn.org.