New Tool to Understand National and Local Policy Changes AND Take Action.
Are you feeling overwhelmed by the rapid changes you are seeing in federal and local policies impacting your work and income and feeling helpless to do anything about it? Or just don’t know where to look to be informed or how you can take action? Thanks to the folks at ADC Consulting, and others, there is now help.
ADC Consulting has created an open-source policy brief educational template for creative workers and entities, called “Policy Literacy for the Creative Sector”.
As seen on the website, this template serves two primary purposes:
Provide baseline educational content on the intersection of the creative sector and public policy
Serve as an editable template and starting point for anyone who wishes to host regular policy briefs and learn and/or educate cohorts of people on cultural policy without having to develop and/or research the information from scratch.
Key content areas include:
The basics of how government works: from federal to municipal governments, to the basics of how bills become laws and how policy work occurs in the U.S. today, focused on application to the creative sector.
The role of government in the creative sector: from the history of government intervention in the creative sector, to the tools and players and current developments impacting the arts
Trusted tools and risk analysis for creative workers and entities: Ways to assess risk, consider your role and sphere of influence, identifying trusted resources, and actions you can take in support of the arts.
The template is for anyone who wants to learn or teach cultural policy and advocacy.
It was designed especially for:
Affinity groups & cohorts of creative workers
Small-budget entities who may not have resources/ or staffing dedicated to cultural policy and advocacy
Students and anyone new to cultural policy and advocacy
Users can:
Learn by reading the template materials and watching the launch event video
Teach others with the template by editing the customizable materials for a specific audience”
Triangle ArtWorks staff is working to determine how best to use this document to serve our community. If your organization, artist group, or just you, are interested in bringing together a group to benefit from viewing the content, or are interested in working with us to share the content, reach out.