Arts Action Fund

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What is the Arts Action Fund? The Arts Action Fund is a 501(c)(4) nonprofit membership organization created by Americans for the Arts, the nation's leading nonprofit organization for advancing the arts in America. Launched on October 4, 2004, the Arts Action Fund seeks to engage citizens in education and advocacy in support of the arts and arts education. The Arts Action Fund's goal is to enlist and mobilize 100,000 citizen activists who will help ensure that arts-friendly public policies are adopted at the federal, state, and local levels, and that public and private resources are maximized. Why is the Arts Action Fund needed? Part of what motivated us to create the Arts Action Fund is that, despite the strong public support that we know exists for the arts in this country, funding for the arts and arts education has been declining. Over the past two years, 40 percent of funding for state arts agencies has been cut. Several states have practically eliminated arts funding altogether, and the market share of private donations dedicated to the arts has dropped by more than 40 percent in the last decade. In 1992, the arts received 8.4 percent of all charitable giving. By 2003, that share had dropped to 5.4 percent. If the arts had maintained their 8.4 percent share of total giving in 2003, they would have received $20 billion instead of $13 billion in support

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