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ArtsEdSearch is an online clearinghouse that collects and summarizes high quality research studies on the impacts of arts education and analyzes their implications for educational policy and practice. ArtsEdSearch is managed by the Arts Education Partnership, in which Dance/USA is a national partner.
ESSA: Mapping Opportunities for the Arts is a report that highlights the ways that states and districts can engage the arts in the ongoing work of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA).

Arts & Economic Prosperity 5 is Americans for the Arts’ fifth study of the nonprofit arts and culture industry’s impact on the economy, providing a quantifiable economic impact of nonprofit arts and culture organizations and their audiences.
Arts and Cultural Production Satellite Account, U.S. and States 2021 released in March 2023 by the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) that shows that arts and cultural economic activity, adjusted for inflation, grew by 13.7 percent from 2020-2021. Several core arts industries did not return to pre-pandemic production levels. This group includes independent artists (as an industry), performing arts organizations (e.g., theater, dance, and opera companies, music groups; and circuses), and arts-related construction, among many others. Despite setbacks for those industries, the overall arts economy in 2021 represented 4.4 percent of GDP, or just over $1.0 trillion—a new high-water mark.
Various state arts agencies and state arts councils provide statistics on the impact of the arts on state and local economies. The National Assembly of State Arts Agencies is a great resource for dance artists and dance professionals to find out more about the arts agency or council in their respective states and specific economic data.
The National Endowment for the Arts and its partners releases additional economic data at the national and state levels on an annual basis.

Independent Sector is the leadership network for nonprofits, foundations, and corporate giving programs comprised of 600 organizations that work in coalition to strengthen and mobilize the nonprofit communities. The IS public policy page provides important talking points on the nonprofit sector (including state-by-state profile on the impact of nonprofits), the charitable deduction, and the IRA charitable rollover.
The Charitable Giving Coalition is a coalition dedicated to preserving the charitable deduction in which Dance/USA is a member.
- Resources to support federal incentives for charitable giving – universal non-itemized charitable deduction
The National Council of Nonprofits is a great resource and organization supporting our nation’s charitable nonprofit organization in which Dance/USA partners with on various issues of interest.

Artists From Abroad is the most complete and up-to-date online resource for foreign guest artists, their managers, and performing arts organizations, providing guidance and resources needed to steer through the process of engaging guest artists reliably and lawfully.
The Alliance for International Exchange is an association of 90 nongovernmental organizations comprising the international educational and cultural exchange community in the United States.

The U.S. Conference of Mayors, the official non-partisan organization of 1,400 cities with populations of 30,000 or more, unanimously passed Resolution 93, in support of ongoing federal relief for the arts and culture sector led by the mayors of San Francisco and Chicago, among additional resolutions (see below) advancing the arts.
§ Resolution Number 90: Arts And Culture Funding for FY 2023 Federal Appropriations (Urges Congress to increase NEA/NEH funding to $203.55 million each with a path to $1 per capita as well as $52 million for the museum division of IMLS.)

§ Resolution Number 92: National Arts and Humanities Month – October 2022 (Urges Mayors to designate October as National Arts and Humanities Month in their cities.)

§ Resolution Number 74: Support Congressional Creative Economy Legislation (Urges Congress to pass the many creative industries legislation before them).
Mayors are also sending a letter to Congress calling for action to improve and extend COVID-19 relief, echoing the theme of Resolution 93.