Your Voice Will Be Heard

You now have the opportunity to ensure that arts are effectively nurtured and allowed to prosper as an essential part of our daily lives. When you become a member of NCA you help to:

• Provide important arts information to local, state and national elected officials, as well as to the arts community and other Nevadans like you;
• Recommend changes in and formulate new legislation that encourages increased funding favorable to the arts;
• Support the local interests of our membership that fosters a strong environment where arts activity thrives;
• Conduct and distribute surveys of political candidates and their views concerning the state of the arts in Nevada;
• Coordinate events, receptions, forums and other special functions in support of the arts statewide.
• Educate the arts constituency and their supporters about how to include the interests of the arts in a broader community dialogue.

NCA's activities are governed by a nonprofit board of directors made up of Nevada citizens from across the state, who like you, recognize the important role the arts play in finding solutions to the social, economic and political agendas of our lives. A contract administrator and lobbyist staff the NCA, with financial support that comes almost exclusively from membership dues.

As a member, you will receive:

• Information in the form of timely publications, mail, electronic and fax bulletins of arts-related news, legislative updates, and tips about how to effectively communicate with elected officials about arts issues;
• Action alerts regarding pending legislative issues affecting the arts and arts education with specific information about how you can participate in the process to provide support or affect change;
• Instruction and the tools you need, through a development kit, to effectively establish your own grass roots effort within your community that allows you to participate more directly in support of arts programming, while also achieving the goals of your organization;
• Technical Assistance can be provided as needed to assist communities and organizations with specific local challenges with workshops, site visits, testimonials and other direct services provided as available by NCA staff and board members;
• Networking options and a listing in our directory that allow you to identify with and draw experience from other arts organizations and support efforts across the state;
• Web Access to NCA's computer database and linking capabilities to assist you more specific information about legislators, bill activity, national trends, statistics and more;
• Voting rights and notices to all membership functions and meetings;
• Invitation to all NCA functions, receptions, forums, candidate interviews, and relevant site visits;
• Research detailed legislator profiles and advocacy case studies drawn from similar situations nationwide;
• Discounts to selected events and merchandise provided by participating arts and cultural institutions throughout Nevada.

And you receive all of it for less than 7¢ a day.

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