Advocacy Trainings

Advocacy Cultivation Events

The shifting political landscape in Springfield opens a window of opportunity for arts advocates in Illinois.

To engage arts administrators, educators, and supporters in the policymaking process, IAA will organize advocacy trainings and cultivation events throughout the state in 2009.

Advocacy Trainings

To support arts advocacy throughout the state, we’ve developed a training that arms you with the information and skills to participate in the policymaking process.

Through our advocacy trainings, we explore:

• What’s in-bounds and out-of-bounds for nonprofit advocacy.
• How to design an advocacy strategy and select advocacy tactics that work.
• What to expect when you engage decision-makers and elected officials.
• The roles of the press and new media in advocacy.

We incorporate stories and lessons learned from our own advocacy efforts into the sessions, and we can customize trainings to your needs.

Please contact Scarlett Swerdlow at 312-855-3105 x13 or swerdlow@artsalliance.org to schedule an advocacy training in your community.

Advocacy Cultivation Events

Through a series of advocacy events, we will facilitate focused, close conversations between arts advocates and their legislators about the power and importance of the arts in our neighborhoods and schools.

Events include town hall meetings, panel and roundtable discussions, and celebrations.

If you would like to host or sponsor an event in your community, please contact Scarlett Swerdlow at 312-855-3105 x13 or swerdlow@artsalliance.org.

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