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As a part of the Charitable Giving Coalition, Americans for the Arts signed a letter urging Chairman Baucus (D-MT) and Ranking Member Hatch (R-UT) to preserve the charitable tax deduction...
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Americans for the Arts, the nation’s leading nonprofit organization for advancing the arts and arts education, announced today that Alessandra DiGiusto has joined its Board of Directors. Elected to the Board of Directors on June 18, DiGiusto has already begun her service with Americans for the Arts. On June 20, she was a featured speaker at the release of the BCA National Survey of Business Support for the Arts.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. - Americans for the Arts, the nation's leading nonprofit organization for advancing the arts and arts education, announced today that Alessandra DiGiusto has joined its Board of Directors. Elected to the Board of Directors on June 18, DiGiusto has already begun her service with Americans for the Arts. On June 20, she was a featured speaker at the release of the BCA National Survey of Business Support for the Arts.
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Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) has reintroduced the Artist-Museum Partnership Act (H.R. 2482) for the 113th Congress. This legislation would allow creators of original works to deduct the fair-market value of self-created works given to and retained by a nonprofit institution.
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The U.S. Senate approved a bipartisan amendment to the comprehensive immigration bill, which included a provision sponsored by Senators Pat Leahy (D-VT) and Orrin Hatch (R-UT) known as the Arts Require Timely Service (“ARTS”) Act.
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The Independent Sector recently announced Sarah Johnson, director of Carnegie Hall’s Weill Music Institute, as the 2013 recipient of the American Express NGen Leadership Award. The annual award, part of the NGen: Moving Nonprofit Leaders from Next to Now initiative, recognizes one accomplished nonprofit leader age 40 or under that shows the ability to collaborate in innovative, inclusive ways to address society’s critical needs. This is the first time an arts leader has received the award.
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Philanthropist, life-long friend of the arts, and proud Idahoan Velma Morrison died last week in Boise at the age of 92. A former board member of the American Council for the Arts, one of the founding organizations of Americans for the Arts, Morrison’s commitment to the arts in Boise was perhaps unparalleled.
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Findings from a national study released by the Strategic National Arts Alumni Project show that a postsecondary arts education affords some unique advantages for women, minorities and disadvantaged students. However, significant gaps remain and inequalities persist related to school debt, racial diversity within artistic occupations and disparities in earnings by gender.
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The national winners of The Art Institutes and Americans for the Arts Poster Design Competition 2013 traveled to Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, June 19 to accept their scholarship awards at a Congressional Reception on Capitol Hill. Whitney Lanier of Statesboro, GA, was the grand prize winner in the high school senior category of the competition. She earned a full tuition scholarship to The Art Institute of Atlanta.
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Business support for the arts was up between 2009 and 2012, with cash plus non-cash giving increasing 18 percent according to a new survey by the Business Committee for the Arts (BCA), a division of Americans for the Arts, the nation’s leading nonprofit organization for advancing the arts.
