The Mississippi Arts Commission Strategic Plan for 2003-2008 summarizes the agency's six primary goals to improve and expand arts participation and activities in Mississippi.

This article, written by AMIs director discusses why California believed social marketing was a critical tool and what social marketing entails. It asks the question, How does social marketing work?ﾝ and answers it with approaches to analyzing behaviors and determining how to position messages that connect with peoples social values and sense of community purpose.

In 1998, The Pew Charitable Trusts commissioned Americans for the Arts and The Ohio State University Arts Policy and Administration Program to analyze public and private sources of support for arts and culture. This report is the result of that research.

A Report from the First Joint Convention of Americans for the Arts and the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies

This book examines how to effectively strategize and develop a public-service advertising campaign that seeks to change strongly ingrained behavior or firmly held beliefs.

A strategic business plan, based on current research data, designed to address the needs and issues facing arts and cultural organizations and constituents in the Sacramento Metropolitan area.

This document provides an overview of research findings and data supporting the positive role that the arts play in many areas.

This handbook offers a framework to nonprofit organizations for shaping public policy at the state and local levels. Step-by-step instructions are presented for developing an effective plan and then putting it into action.

Americans for the Arts receives more than 3,500 annual requests for information about local arts agencies (LAAs). To provide the most accurate answers to these questions, we conduct an extensive triennial survey to measure the status and condition of the LAA field. Here are the in-depth findings from our Fiscal Year 2000 Survey of Local Arts Agencies.

Findings illustrate a need for a public awareness campaign to raise questions and to compel parents to take action and affect change in their schools and communities.