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May 27, 2025 | CA for the Arts

Join Our Spring Membership Drive – Help Us Reach $30,000!

We’re Building on 2024’s Impact - With Your Support

Spring is a season of growth—and like trees taking root and growing deep into the ground, trust in an organization also takes time. And thanks to our members, 2024 was a year of real progress. Now in our Spring Membership Drive, we’re asking you to help us reach our goal of $30,000 to fuel even more impact in 2025.

What We Accomplished Together in 2024 and Look Forward to in 2025:

Organized 2024-25 Budget Advocacy campaign, reversing 75% of proposed cuts
Received the 2024 Impact and Innovation Award from Community Partners
Hosted the 2025 CA Arts & Culture Summit with over 500 attendees, Arts Advocacy Day with nearly 350 attendees, and ACCM Launch events in San Diego, Oakland, and Fresno.
Hosting 2025 Regional Conversations throughout the state, beginning with San Francisco on June 7th.
Gearing up for the 2nd year of the Grassroots Artists Advocacy Program (GAAP). Applications are opening soon!
Mobilizing advocates and lobbying for the restoration of the Performing Arts Equitable Payroll Fund in the 25-26 Budget.

Our CEO Julie Baker with Community Partners Sr. Prog. Dir. Evonne Gallardo (L), and member Álvaro Márquez, Arts & Culture Prog. Officer, CA Community Foundation (R). Photo by Alan Sheckter.

Why Your Membership Matters:

Your membership fuels our advocacy, amplifies artists’ voices, and allows us to strengthen the network of our state.

Your membership will support:

Educational year-long programming and free webinars.
Strategic communications and free toolkits.
Grassroots organizing and training.
Direct lobbying in Sacramento.
Membership means standing with a trusted organization committed to real, measurable change. Art heals, and it deserves to be defended.

Member Benefits Highlights!

At certain giving levels, we offer opportunities to partner with you to work in your communities or in strategy sessions with you.

Starting at giving level Arts Defender ($500), in gratitude for your support we offer partnership on one virtual local mobilizing event, and at other giving levels advocacy strategy sessions and advocacy training for your network. Learn more about levels of benefits:

Arts Defender ($500)

Partner on one virtual local mobilizing event per year - connect and mobilize your community with a virtual event co-hosted by CA for the Arts, content determined by member.

Arts Sustainer ($1,000)

One free 30 min strategy session per year - have an advocacy issue you want help tackling, need some strategies for mobilizing your community? You can book a strategy session with CA for the Arts staff.

Leadership Circle ($2,500)

Advocacy training for your network - bring your network up to speed on arts policies or specific advocacy skills as a group with a customized training with CA for the Arts staff.

One free 30min strategy session per year - have an advocacy issue you want help tackling, need some strategies for mobilizing your community? You can book a strategy session with CA for the Arts staff.

Capacity Builder ($5,000)

Advocacy training for your network, staff or board members - bring them up to speed on arts policies or specific advocacy skills as a group with a customized training with CA for the Arts staff.

Two 30min strategy or coaching sessions per year - have an advocacy issue you want help tackling, need some strategies for mobilizing your community? You can book a strategy session with CA for the Arts staff.