Hearing on the reauthorization of the National Endowment for the Arts; held in Washington, D.C., March 21, 1990. This is the seventh reauthorization legislation for the Endowments. The original act of 1965 which provided for the establishment of the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities, which was amended in 1968, 1970, 1973, 1976, 1980, and 1985 has been amended again to reflect changes in programs and procedures. Includes testimony and supporting statements by government and arts leaders related to the reauthorization.

This publication summarizes the hearings held on April 19 and June 6, 1990 before the Subcommittee on Post Secondary Education of the Committee on Education and Labor in the House of Representatives (the 101st Congress, second session).

This publication summarizes a hearing held November 15, 1989 before the Subcommittee on Post Secondary Education of the Committee on Education and Labor in the House of Representatives (the 101st Congress, first session).

A User's Guide to IRS Publication 1391 for Executive Directors and Development Officers: In June of 1988, the Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service wrote to over 400,000 charitable groups expressing concern that: sponsors of fund-raising events have often failed to provide written information on the extent to which payments for such affairs are deductible as charitable contributions. There has been widespread misunderstanding of the limitations on the deductibility of such payments. This misunderstanding has led to erroneous tax reporting of these payments by some patrons.

Included in this pamphlet are arts and cultural affairs laws of New York State.

The American Arts Alliance, a consortium of over 350 nonprofit, professional arts organizations, state that they prepared this report as background on arts economy for policy makers. Such background, they argue, would enable officials to make reasoned decisions on the legislative, budget, and tax policy proposals of 1988 which, if enacted, would dramatically alter the fiscal foundations of nonprofit arts institutions.

This report was submitted in response to then Mayor Henry G. Cisneros request for an assessment of the City of San Antonios current involvement with the arts, and recommendations for future city policies and organizational structure regarding that broad topic.

A report to Family Service America and The National Assembly, Washington, D.C. This paper addresses the claim of some small business advocates that exemption from federal income taxation gives nonprofit organizations an unfair competitive advantage in the marketplace. It concludes that such tax exemption does not afford nonprofit organizations a significant competitive advantage, and that proposals to change the basis for exemption, modify the concept of unrelated business, limit nonprofits' ability to compete for government contracts, and other remedies proposed by small business advocates

In this paper prepared for the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research in May 1985, the author examines some of the underlying patterns of funding adopted by the NEA in the twenty years of its existence. In principle, the Endowment is a non-political, non-partisan agency; one resembling the National Science Foundation rather than the Department of Education. In practice of course, it is shaped by political trends.

Hearing held in Washington, D.C.; October 26, 1983 to review the operations of the Institute of Museum Services and to recommend changes regarding peer review, conservation, and improved internal communications among other areas. Includes testimony and statements from government officials and museum leaders, and other documentation.