ASI/GBCA Advocacy Workshop Wednesday, October 28 - 6PM ASI and the Greater Buffalo Cultural Alliance (GBCA) will present their fall gathering and public workshop on Erie County advocacy and arts funding on Wednesday, October 28 via. Our program will explore what advocacy means, how we use it, and how nonprofit professionals can interact with elected [...]
Tuesday, October 9, 2018 at Buffalo & Erie County Botanical Gardens Join us for the Fall GBCA Cultural Gathering in conjunction with Arts Services Initiative of WNY, Inc.. Materials: GBCA EC Funding Advocacy Plan 2018-19 GBCA ASI Advocacy Presentation 2018-19 ADVOCACY (followed by a GBCA presentation on the upcoming Erie County Budget Process, Timeline, and Advocacy Next [...]
FROM AMERICANS FOR THE ARTS - Republican leaders of the House Ways and Means Committee pushed through the release of their official tax reform bill H.R. 1 in Congress to overhaul the American federal income tax system. While it will take several days to fully analyze this 429-page bill and its potential impact on charitable giving, nonprofit [...]
Tuesday, November 8 (ELECTION DAY!!) Buffalo & Erie County Botanical Gardens Lobbying in NYS Speaker: Carl Calabrese, Partner at Masiello, Martucci, Calabrese and Associates Carl J. Calabrese has been involved in government and politics in Western New York for over 30 years. As an elected high-ranking Republican Party official, Calabrese has built relationships with government [...]
At ASI, advocacy for the cultural sector is an important part of what we do in service of the area’s 300-plus not for profit cultural organizations, their thousands of employees, and the hundreds of thousands who invest in the cultural sector through their attendance, service, and donations. Each election cycle, Arts Services Initiative poses a [...]
At ASI, advocacy for the cultural sector is an important part of what we do in service of the area’s 300-plus not for profit cultural organizations, their thousands of employees, and the hundreds of thousands who invest in the cultural sector through their attendance, service, and donations. Each election cycle, Arts Services Initiative poses a [...]
For anyone who might not be familiar with Arts Services Initiative of Western New York, there's a lot of catching up to do. To start, the initiative was forged in 2011 in order to fill the need for a non-profit organization that could be instrumental in a range of services for artists and art organizations. [...]
Music and poetry filled the County Legislature chambers Monday as speakers urged lawmakers not to scale back funding for arts and cultural groups, libraries and youth programs next year. A county budget hearing that drew more than 50 speakers was dominated by members of local nonprofit organizations who asked lawmakers to keep the $5.5 million [...]
Again this year, the annual public hearing on the proposed Erie County budget was dominated by cultural agencies and the library system. County Executive Poloncarz's spending plan calls for a 3.4 percent hike in the property tax, in a budget dominated by mandated spending. By Mike Desmond, WBFO 88.7FM, 11/20/12 11202012 Most support tax hike [...]
Earlier this evening, members of Buffalo's cultural community dominated an hour-long public hearing of Buffalo Common Council. The cultural funding advocates, responding to a city budget that includes no funding for the arts, echoed and in many cases built upon the eloquent arguments of last year's Erie County cultural funding crisis. By Colin Dabkowski, The [...]
