3: Partnerships for the Arts
To develop and maintain partnerships that support excellence in the arts, both new and established; bring the arts to all
Americans; and provide leadership in arts education.
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Program Outcome Goals: • Activities supported through partnerships with State arts agencies and regional arts organizations
make the arts and arts education widely available. • Activities supported through partnerships with other public and private
sector organizations make the arts and arts education widely available. Rationale: Throughout America, numerous publicly-
and privately-supported agencies and organizations exist at the regional, State and local levels. Since its inception, the
National Endowment for the Arts has been a partner with many of them in pursuing our joint mission to foster the creation,
performance, and exhibition of works of art, and to facilitate their delivery in communities large and small, rural and urban,
throughout the country. Our partners include: • Federal agencies, including the Department of Defense and the Department of
Education, that work with the Arts Endowment to carry out projects of mutual interest. • Publicly-supported State arts agencies
(SAAs) which exist in all 50 States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa,
and the Northern Marianas. Through this national program, funded by 40 percent of the Arts Endowment’s annual grantmaking
appropriation, these vital partners join with the Arts Endowment in supporting arts projects. • Six principal regional arts
organizations (RAOs), created by State arts leaders in partnership with the Arts Endowment and the private sector to serve
the needs of citizens in specific geographic regions of the nation. • Private sector organizations, including The Boeing Company
and Verizon in recent years, which help the Agency implement its national initiatives. Strategies: • Collaborate with Federal
partners to provide grants and support programs that advance the missions of all participating agencies; • Support State arts
agency efforts to provide grants to organizations and individuals in as many communities as possible; • Support regional arts
organization efforts to tour and present high-quality performing, visual and literary arts throughout the Nation. Performance
Measures: • Number and aggregate dollar value of grants to Federal and State arts agencies (basic operating portion only)
• Number and aggregate dollar value of grants to regional arts organizations (basic operating portion only) • Number of national
initiatives undertaken in partnership with public and private sector organizations • The number of individual communities
reached through partnership programs Qualitative measure: In addition to the quantitative measures of National Partnerships
for the Arts programs, a qualitative evaluation process is currently being explored at the Arts Endowment. Given our available
resources, we are considering a process that, each year, will gather a small sample from the partnerships created and assign
an independent evaluator to assess their quality and impact.
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