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Proposed
NEH funding cuts will primarily impact preservation and access grants --
preservation and access is slated to lose 25%
of its funding! Stabilization grants are to disappear. Please
see the NHA announcement below with instructions on what we can do. It is
imperative that we act immediately if we are to maintain the current funding
levels. Many
thanks, Julie
Martin Carlson **************************************************** ATTENTION HUMANITIES
ADVOCATES The Co-Chairs of the
Congressional Humanities Caucus, Rep. David Price (D-NC) and Rep. Phil English
(R-PA), have prepared a Dear Colleague letter in support of $177 million in
funding for the National Endowment for the Humanities in FY 2009, which is
currently circulating in the House of Representatives. The deadline for
Members of Congress to sign the letter is soon- Monday, March 17, 2008. ACTION NEEDED Please call, email,
or fax your Representative and ask him/her to sign on to this letter today.
A draft message is posted for you to email or fax your Member of Congress
at the Humanities Advocacy Network’s website: http://www.humanitiesadvocacy.org/action_ctr.html.
Please feel free to customize the message, especially if you have
recently participated in Humanities Advocacy Day congressional visits. A large number of
signatures on the Dear Colleague letter, particularly if they represent both
sides of the aisle, will send a very important message to the leadership of the
House Interior Appropriations Subcommittee as they begin to work on the mark-up
of the FY 2009 spending bill. All Members of Congress can be reached by phone
through the Capitol Switchboard at 202.224.3121. Note:
Appropriations Committee members do not typically sign Dear Colleague
letters addressed to their Subcommittee. SAMPLE MESSAGE TO
MEMBERS OF CONGRESS I write to ask that
you sign on to a Dear Colleague letter currently circulating by Rep. David
Price (D-NC) and Rep. Phil English (R-PA), requesting $177 million for the
National Endowment for the Humanities in FY 2009, an increase of approximately
$30 million over the FY 2008 enacted level and the President’s request.
The proposed increase
would provide additional resources for important on-going NEH programs
including state humanities councils, research, education, preservation, and
public programming. It would also allow NEH to extend the reach of two of
its major initiatives: the “We the People” program and the Digital
Humanities Initiative. The Interior and
Environment Appropriations Subcommittee said that signing this letter does not require
certification and will not count against a Members’ earmark requests. For more information
or to sign on to the letter, please contact Kate Roetzer with Rep. David Price
at 5-1784 or Peter Sperry with Rep. Phil English at 5-5406. The deadline
to sign the letter is Monday, March 17. You can view text of the letter
at: http://www.nhalliance.org/caucus/house_neh_dcl.pdf.
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