Advocacy Tools and Resources
Other Issues 

Cultural Exchange Resources

• International Cultural Exchange: Funding Opportunities and Resource List
• Cultural Exchange Issue Brief

Grassroots Advocacy Tools

• Advocacy Basics for Performing Arts Organizations
• Advocacy Basics for Performing Arts Organizations (ppt)
• Inviting Members of Congress to Performances and Events: A Guide to Gift Rules
• Inviting Members of Congress to Performances and Events: A Guide to Gift Rules (ppt)

Disaster Relief Resources

• Disaster Recovery Assistance for Performing Arts Organizations Issue Brief 
• Before and After Disasters: Federal Funding for Cultural Institutions
  This document was written by Heritage Preservation with funding from, and in partnership with, the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the National Endowment for the Arts as a service to the American cultural community.

Other Issues

• Artist Deduction Issue Brief
• Corporation for Public Broadcasting Issue Brief
 

Organizations

• Heritage Preservation  - Heritage Preservation is working to save the objects that embody our history, partnering with conservators, museums, civic groups, and concerned individuals across the nation who care about preserving pieces of our shared and individual pasts.

• Heritage Emergency National Task Force  – The Heritage Emergency Task Force was formed in 1995 to help libraries, archives, museums, historical societies, and historic sites better protect their collections and buildings from natural disasters and other emergencies. The Task Force promotes preparedness and mitigation and provides expert information to institutions and the public. Sponsored by the nonprofit Heritage Preservation and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the Task Force is a partnership of 40 federal agencies and national service organizations.

• Alliance of Nonprofit Mailers - The Alliance of Nonprofit Mailers was established in 1980 as a national coalition of nonprofit organizations sharing a vested interest in nonprofit postal policy. The Alliance is the primary representative of nonprofit mailers before the Postal Rate Commission, at US Postal Service (USPS) Headquarters, and on Capitol Hill.