Successful Strategies for Increasing Private Sector Partnerships and Support

Eva CalderaAssistant Chairman for Partnership and Strategic Initiatives

National Endowment for the Humanities (an independent agency of the United States government)

FIFTH REGULAR MEETING OF THE INTER-AMERICAN COMMITTEE ON CULTUREMarch 21-22, 2013

Eighth Plenary Session: Resources for CultureFinancing of Culture: Public-Private Responsibility and Investment

U.S. Government Support The U.S. government’s three independent grant-making cultural agencies

o Institute of Museum and Library Services $242.6 milliono National Endowment for the Arts $146.2 milliono National Endowment for the Humanities $146.2 million

Corporation for Public Broadcasting a non-profit corporation created by an act of the U.S. Congress funded by the U.S. government to promote non-profit public broadcasting $420 million

Public-private partnerships that receive federal appropriations

o Smithsonian Institution $811.5 milliono National Gallery of Art $114.1 milliono The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts $ 36.8 million

Total of all U.S. federal government support for cultural agencies and federally-supported national cultural institutions in FY2012 $ 1,917,400,000

IMLS/MacArthur FoundationLearning Labs Partnership

President Obama’s Educate to Innovate initiative(http://www.whitehouse.gov/issues/education/k-12/educate-innovate)

IMLS 21st Century Skills initiative(http://www.imls.gov/about/21st_century_skills_home.aspx)

MacArthur Digital Media and Learning initiative(http://dmlhub.net/)

Result? $4 million IMLS/MacArthur commitment to creating

Learning Labs in libraries and museums across the country

Examples of artists receiving royalties from recent Smithsonian Folkways recordings

• Archives of the Andes—Universidad Católica, Peru

• Capoeira Angola, Brazil

• Hatun Kotama from Otavalo, Ecuador

• La India Canela, Dominican Republic

• Los Gauchos de Roldán, Uruguay

• Los Hermanos Lovo, El Salvador

• Los Maestros del Joropo Oriental and La Sardina de Naiguatá, Venezuela

• Marimba Chapinlandia, Guatemala

• Harp masters from Paraguay

• Artists and groups from Chile, Colombia, and Mexico and more