Please RSVP for "NEA & Project 2025 Arts Community Meeting" using the form below.

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Thanks for your interest in attending our zoom meeting about Project 2025.

The meeting was initially called in response to the dismantling of the National Endowment for the Arts by the Trump administration. But by implication, it is also about the Project 2025 initiative, of which the gutting of the NEA is only a small part.

SFIAF is one of hundreds of arts organizations that lost NEA funding this month. However, because news of the cuts came during the festival (as reported by the SF Chronicle among others), we had to complete the program first before we could turn our attention to addressing the problem.

Now that the festival has been successfully completed, we are trying to find out what the local arts community is doing to organize against the cuts to the NEA and the specter of Project 2025. So part of the point of gathering will be to do a general check-in to see who is already organizing and / or making plans.

To start the meeting off, we have invited three groups to make short reports regarding efforts already initiated to back-fill some of the NEA funds lost to Bay Area arts organizations and another potential funding emergency at the state level.

These are Arts Solidarity Action who are meeting with a group of Bay Area foundations regarding a variety of arts funding issues and that now includes the cuts to the NEA.

Arts for a Better Bay Area who are organizing San Francisco based non-profits who lost NEA funds to inquire about securing partial relief from the City.

Theatre Bay Area on efforts to save the Performing Arts Equitable Payroll Fund that Gavin Newsom proposed eliminating and what people can do to support saving the fund.

After these reports attendees will be able to share ideas and solutions that they are working on or that they know of.

From there we will try to think about how we can either join existing efforts and strategies. Or, if necessary, think about how we come up with a Bay Area based arts plan that can link to people and organizations doing similar work in other sectors and other parts of the country.