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        2025 Advocacy Calendar

        This calendar features key dates in 2025 and monthly actions you can take to build relationships with your elected officials and advocate year round!

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        Candidate Engagement Resource Guide →
        Getting Involved in the CA Legislative Process →
        The Arts and the CA Budget Process →
        What is lobbying and can I do it? →
        Arts Funding in CA →
        The Rules of Engagement Political Campaigning Lobbying and Advocacy →

        Fact Sheets

        Fact Sheet

        Why the Arts Matter in California

        Fact Sheet

        SB 628: CA Creative Workforce Act

        Fact Sheet

        Arts + Economic Development = Thriving Communities

        Fact Sheet

        Arts + Workforce Development

        Fact Sheet

        Arts + Infrastructure

        Fact Sheet

        Arts + Housing

        Case Studies and Research

        Creative Economy

        From Living to Thriving: Threewalls’ Wage Policy Report

        Creative Economy

        Creative Economy Tracker

        Community Development

        Creative Placemaking: Strengthening Communities with Arts at the Core

        Creative Economy

        For a Resilient US Theater

        Report

        Relationships between arts participation, social cohesion, and wellbeing

        Creative Economy

        Otis Report on the Creative Economy 2024

        Thought Leadership

        Video

        The Arts Work to Empower & Engage Youth

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        The Arts Work to Build Community Prosperity & Reslience

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        The Arts Work to Create Jobs

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        The Arts Work to Heal

        Video

        The Arts Work to Advance Social Justice & Racial Equity

        Podcast

        The Racial Equity Coding Project: The Path Ahead

        Notes from the Field

        Notes from the field

        Report from California Arts Council's 5/24/24 Public Meeting

        Notes from the field

        Report from California Arts Council's 3/1/24 Public Meeting

        Notes from the field

        Report from California Arts Council's 2/1/24 Public Meeting

        Notes from the field

        Report from California Arts Council's 12/12/23 Public Meeting

        Notes from the field

        Report from California Arts Council's 11/17/23 Public Meeting

        Notes from the field

        Report from California Arts Council's 8/30/23 Public Meeting

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