Advocate Now for $13 million for Cultural Facilities Funding: Support the Turkingon-Bosley Amendment #470
April 23, 2007
Dear Friends,
Advocate Now for $13 million for Cultural Facilities funding Support the Turkingon-Bosley Amendment #470 Dear Friends, Please write your state representative immediately to ask for his or her support for Amendment #470, the Turkington Bosley amendment. Click on this link to send your message now.
http://capwiz.com/artsusa/ma/issues/alert/?alertid=9662056&type=ST&show_alert=1
This amendment will increase the appropriation for the Massachusetts Cultural Facilities Fund to $13 million, an increase of $3 million from the proposed House budget.
In these tight budget times, the state must invest in programs like the Massachusetts Cultural facilities Fund because it generates, creates jobs, and helps to revitalize our cities and towns.
This year, 201 cultural organizations serving 91 cities and towns applied for support from the new Massachusetts Cultural Facilities Fund.
The quality and quantity of grant applications, received by the Massachusetts Cultural Council and MassDevelopment on March 15, demonstrate two key points:
- The need for strategic investment in our cultural organizations, the infrastructure for tourism, is great.
- The Massachusetts Cultural Facilities Fund is creating tremendous opportunity for economic growth and revitalization in cities and towns across the Commonwealth.
Furthermore, every dollar of state investment generates additional private investment. Cultural Facilities grants must be matched by the private sector 1 to 1 for the smallest grants up to 5 to 1 for the largest.
The Massachusetts Cultural Facilities Fund is an investment in the infrastructure for Massachusetts tourism, our third largest industry with a $3.1 billion payroll across 147,600 jobs. Non-profit cultural organizations are a significant job base of the state with a statewide payroll of $247 million and in-state spending on for-profit vendors of $1.1 billion annually.
Please urge your state representative to support this valuable economic development tool.
Thank you for your consideration.
Sincerely,
