CA Arts Advocates - Your Lobbying Voice in Sacramento
As a 501(c)4, CA Arts Advocates is a comprehensive lobbying organization for the arts, culture and creative industries, working to influence equitable and just systems change through public policy and public investment. Your membership supports direct lobbying efforts with state representatives and agencies, coalition building, policy analysis and writing and accountability advocacy over policies and agencies impacting our field.
Join the Movement
Your Membership Fuels Life-Changing Impact. Advocacy is real work, and it is the essential engine that turns creative passion into policy victories. Your membership is the only way we can deliver direct legislative power in Sacramento. Unlike project grants, most foundations cannot fund direct lobbying. We are almost entirely dependent on individual and organizational memberships to hire our contract lobbyist and ensure the creative sector has a decisive voice at the Capitol.
Build with CA Arts Advocates as an Individual
Build with CA Arts Advocates as an Organization
Support CA Arts Advocates with a Donation
Join as an Individual Outreach Partner
Join as an Organization Outreach Partner
Member 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)
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.
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.
Leadership Circle ($2,500)
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.
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)
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.
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.
Coalition Partner ($5,000) - CAA Only
Customized package of services for your network, which can include strategy building, legislation monitoring, policy analysis and support for your advocacy at the Capitol. Contact tracy@caforthearts.org!
Your Impact as a Member
Your support today secures real impact by:
- Securing Increased Public Investment: We actively lobby for increased and sustained state funding across state agencies and in innovative programs to ensure arts workers, cultural nonprofits and creative businesses have access to public funding and capital for a thriving and sustainable creative economy.
- Championing Economic Justice for Artists: We advance policies that reduce barriers, ensure fair pay, secure living wages, and establish a vital safety net for artists and the entire creative workforce.
- Creating Affordable Spaces for Creativity: We fight for long-term policy solutions—including affordable housing and live/work spaces—to keep artists anchored in the communities they enrich.
- Centering Artists in Public Policy: We advocate for artists and culture bearers to be recognized as drivers of system-wide change by integrating their perspectives and work into public policies across sectors, including health, climate, housing, economic development, and social justice.
Want to Support A Movement Building Advocacy Network? Join CA for the Arts
Our sister organization, CA for the Arts is your statewide arts advocacy service organization providing free programs, services, training and supporting advocacy networks to foster public awareness and generate resources to cultivate a thriving cultural sector and creative industries. Your membership will support keeping our programs FREE and accessible for all.
Grow with Us"A big thank you from The Music Center! We are so very grateful for your and CAA's leadership to meet this moment. Your ability to consolidate the key leg issues and offer us the tools for focused advocacy has been crucial in this time. We know that this is the long haul and our work must continue - anchoring us through joy, connection, cultural meaning and creative expression during some of the most precarious times."Letitia Ivins, Senior Director, Civic Strategies & Partnerships, The Music Center
CAA will take our stories and convey to legislators and other decision-makers the value and impact that comes with arts and culture.
Rafael González, Grand Performances
CAA Member
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