Well it was interesting reality on Tuesday at the NJSCA annual meeting. The Council celebrated its 40th anniversary and it was very clear that it's come a long way since its infancy when only a few grants were awarded and it was just getting its feet wet as a grantmaker.
Here we are 40 years later and after one year with a record $22.86 million to give to non-profit arts groups, political reality has taken hold, and the funding level is back to $19.112 million for what year? 2007??!! Shades of a few other administrations...like 1990 when funding was $19.060...and 2000 when it was $19.369 million. See if you can guess who the chief executives were for those budget years! And remember the old slogan of "20 by 2000??" Makes you wonder what "dedicated revenue" really means, doesn't it?
All cynicism and sarcasm aside, it's time to move ahead and I don't want to see $19 million or less again...EVER!!! Are you with me???
Thursday, August 10, 2006
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That's why we need to expand the ArtPride board to include folks from other sectors -- broader support, less danger of cuts in the future.
why rant and rave? some of your key members double dip instead of advocating for the group while you look the other way
easy to come to such a conclusion that one is "looking the other way..." when the "coalition" is constantly reexamined. Are "double dippers" some of the biggest advocates, or not? Are legislators who are rewarded for votes and give their prizes to arts groups of equal blame? Should this money not go to the arts, but elsewhere? A much more complicated scenario than the last comment suggests.
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