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Mass Cultural Council Welcomes Funding Increase

July 19, 2018

Legislature Approves State Budget that Boosts Cultural Funding by $2M

(Mass Cultural Council Press Release, July 18, 2018)

(Boston, MA) – Today the state Legislature approved a final budget for the new fiscal year that boosts funding for the arts, humanities, and sciences through Mass Cultural Council by $2 million.

The FY19 budget funds Mass Cultural Council at $16 million, a nearly 15 percent increase over last year that will allow the agency to increase its statewide support for nonprofit organizations, communities, artists, education and creative youth.

The increase comes after a concerted statewide advocacy effort involving Mass Cultural Council and its partners, MASSCreative, Mass Humanities, Mass Artists Leaders Coalition, and individual arts and cultural leaders across the Commonwealth. (more…)

Great news for MA Arts and Culture Sector!

July 18, 2018

Compromise State Budget released!

Mass Cultural Council and cultural agencies have increases!

Today the Budget Conference Committee released its compromise state budget for the next fiscal year. Both the House and Senate will need to vote on it.

This vote is a “yes or no” vote and no amendments are allowed at this stage of the budget process.

After the vote (assuming both branch approve the budget), it goes to the governor and he can veto/amend it and send it back to the Legislature to either accept or override his vetoes/amendments. (more…)

Action Alert! Amendment Introduced to Cut NEA & NEH by $23mil each

July 26, 2018

Americans for the Arts Action Alert!

Click on the banner to Take Action to call on your Member of Congress to reject this drastic funding cut amendment!

Americans for the Arts:

Yesterday, the House Rules Committee green-lighted an amendment sponsored by Rep. Glenn Grothman (R-WI). His amendment would cut funding to the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) by $23 million each – a 15% cut to each agency.

Take two minutes to take action now to call on your Member of Congress to reject this amendment. They need to hear from you about why the arts are vital to your community and our country! (more…)

Update: Copyright Office Fee Increase – Comments Due September 21, 2018!

July 12, 2018

[note color=”#FFCC00″]Update! The comment period for the Copyright Office’s proposed fee schedule increases has been extended to September 21, 2018, 11:59pm Eastern. https://www.copyright.gov/newsnet/2018/723.html[/note]

The U.S. Copyright Office (@CopyrightOffice), Library of Congress, published a “Notice of proposed rule making” in the Federal Register on May 24, 2018, in which they reported the outcome of a study conducted by Booz Allen to address cost recovery goals.

Importantly, the Office has never recovered its full costs from user fees. Instead, the Office has traditionally recovered approximately 60% of its costs through fees; the remainder is provided through appropriated dollars from the U.S. treasury. ~ Federal Register/Vol. 83, No. 101, p. 24055

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