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July 7, 2010
- Photo Gallery from the Conference
- Last Chance to Register for the Field-Wide Audience Engagement Study
- Advocacy Update
In case you missed the Annual Conference, or just want to re-live the great memories, check out this great photo gallery!
Photo Album
A collection of some of our best-of photos, thanks to photographer Paul Gillis.
Stay tuned for speeches from the Conference in the next SPIN!
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Last Chance to Register for Field-Wide Audience Engagement Study
Did you miss the deadline to register for the EDA Field-Wide Audience Engagement Study?
If you are still interested in participating in the EDA Field-Wide Audience Engagement Study, we are still accepting registrations from study partners. We need to hear from you as soon as possible if your organization would like to participate, as space for study partners is quickly filling up!
All of the information about this Field-Wide Audience Engagement Study is available online at www.danceusa.org/edaresearch. There, you can read some Frequently Asked Questions, register for the study online, or download a draft of the survey.
The study is part of the Engaging Dance Audiences (EDA) pilot initiative underwritten by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the James Irvine Foundation. Dance/USA’s research partner for this study is WolfBrown. The study is being led by Alan Brown and Jennifer Novak-Leonard, with support from Dance/USA staff.
Questions about this study can be sent to Victoria Smith, research associate, or 202.833.1717.
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Advocacy Update
Funding Opportunities, Dept. of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and Dept. of Transportation (DOT)
HUD and the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) released two Notices of Funding Availability (NOFAs): $100 million in grants available through HUD's Sustainable Communities Regional Planning Grant Program, and up to $75 million in grants available through a joint HUD and DOT Sustainable Communities Challenge Grant Program. Under both programs, arts organizations are eligible to partner with state and local governments, metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs), transit agencies, philanthropic and non-profit organizations and other eligible applicants to develop consortia grant proposals. For more information, visit the NEA press release here.
Temporary Pension Funding Relief
On June 25, President Obama signed into law the Preservation of Access to Care for Medicare Beneficiaries and Pension Relief Act of 2010. In case this legislation affects your dance organization, here are a few highlights:
Single Employer Plans
Employers would be given two options to spread out their statutory pension funding obligations.
- The first option would allow employers to pay back their pension shortfall over 15 years (instead of seven) for any two plans years from 2008 to 2011.
- The second option would allow employers to make interest-only payments in the two years chosen with the shortfall amortized over the following seven years.
Multi-Employer Plans
- Plans would be able to spread their 2008 investment losses over 30 years. Multi-employer plans would also be able to choose to smooth (i.e., average) their assets over 10 years (instead of five years).
Additional Resources
- Preservation of Access to Care for Medicare Beneficiaries and Pension Relief Act of 2010
- National Coordinating Committee For Multi-Employer Plans
- Special Report by the American Benefits Council
The U.S. Postal Service announced yesterday plans to increase all postal rates starting in January 2011. The Alliance of Nonprofit Mailers, a group representing charities and other organizations came out strongly against the proposed increase, stating: "Consumers everywhere will pay more for the letters and packages they need to send; businesses - large and small - will suffer.” Dance/USA, as a founding member of the Performing Arts Alliance, will continue to track postal rate changes for nonprofit organizations. For the full news story, click here.
Creative Ways to Use Dance/USA’s Pocket Advocacy
As previously reported, Dance/USA introduced the Pocket Advocacy at our Annual Conference in Washington, DC. In addition to using the Pocket Advocacy as a way to strike up conversations on the power of dance, you can copy the advocacy facts into the signature of your email, post them on your organization’s website and share the facts using Twitter and Facebook! Tell us how you are using the Pocket Advocacy by emailing advocacy@danceusa.org!
Dance/USA’s Advocacy website is continually updated with legislative news and resources. Visit our site often to learn about federal advocacy news affecting dance organizations in America. https://www.danceusa.org/newsactionalerts
Questions about the Advocacy Update? Email Dance/USA Government Affairs Director, Amy Fitterer, at afitterer@danceusa.org.
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