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Deadling Fast Approaching for Feedback on Dance/USA's Annual Data Survey
Survey closes August 15, 2009.
Do you currently manage a dance company? Then the Dance/USA research department wants to hear from you! We’ve built an evaluation of the Annual Data Survey that gauges your current interaction with and comments about the Annual Data Survey. The evaluation is mainly multiple choice with two questions with room for comments and should take no more than ten minutes to complete.
Please visit this link to access the evaluation.
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Government Affairs Update - Arts and Health Care
Health Care Reform and Nonprofit Organizations
Dance/USA, in coalition with the Performing Arts Alliance, is tracking the health care reform proposals in an effort to understand how the proposed changes will affect dance organizations. Independent Sector, an advocacy organization representing the nonprofit field, has submitted a letter to the Senate Finance Committee asking that nonprofit organizations receive equal incentives to for-profit businesses to provide healthcare for employees.
learn more about Independent Sector’s position on health care reform
In addition, for dance companies seeking to understand the many health care proposals, Kaiser Permanente has put together a side-by-side comparison chart: http://www.kff.org/healthreform/sidebyside.cfm and Speaker Pelosi’s office has released a two-page summary on health care reform and small businesses.
Arts in Health Care Proposals
Dance/USA has signed onto proposals submitted to key Senate staff supporting the inclusion of the arts in healthcare. Arts in health care is a diverse field representing over 16,000 medical, arts, and creative arts therapy professionals dedicated to enhancing the healthcare experiences for patients, families and caregivers through activities that reduce their experience of pain and increase their ability to communicate emotions, to measurable therapeutic outcomes. This rapidly growing field integrates the arts, including literary, performing, music, visual and design into a wide variety of health care and community settings for therapeutic, educational and expressive purposes.
