Florida Legislative Leadership Must Hear From
Other arts & culture advocates, and
Other Legislators in the Senate & House.
We all must ask Florida Legislative Leadership and our senators and representatives to please ACCEPT the HOUSE'S appropriation RECOMMENDATION of $2,987,775 for the Culture Builds Florida Matching Grants (budget line item 3120A in the House budget) that support specific cultural projects throughout the state.
This appropriation recommended now by the HOUSE would fund all 134 vetted and recommended 2018-19 Culture Builds Florida matching grants.
STEP 1:
Send two different emails now -- one to
6 Senate Leaders AND one to 6 House Leaders.
Below are TWO DIFFERENT SUGGESTED EMAILS
for you to personalize and send:
1.
Below is a
suggested
SENATE email
to
personalize and send to
his or her own email -- do not send as a group of 6:
Please accept the House's appropriation recommendation of $2,987,775 for the Florida Department of State Division of Cultural Affairs' Culture Builds Florida Matching grants (budget line item 3120A in House budget). This state grant will help our nonprofit organization secure the required matching dollars we need to implement our specific cultural project. Here is
a list of all 134 of the well-vetted and recommended Culture Builds Florida matching grants and links to their websites. My organization (
list the name of your organization) is included in that list.
Thank you for your time and consideration. If I may provide you with greater details about this cultural project, please let me know.
Your name, organization, and contact information
2. Below is a suggested
HOUSE email to p
ersonalize, and send
to
his or her own email -- do not send as a group of 6.
Thank you so much for the House's appropriation recommendation of $2,987,775 for the Florida Department of State Division of Cultural Affairs' Culture Builds Florida Matching grants (budget line item 3120A in House budget).
PLEASE, during conference, fight to keep this appropriation at the House's recommendation. This state matching grant will help our nonprofit organization secure the required matching dollars we need to implement our specific cultural project. Here is
a list of all 134 of the well-vetted and recommended Culture Builds Florida matching grants and links to their websites.
My organization (
list the name of your organization) is included in that list.
Thank you for your time and consideration. If I may provide you with greater details about this cultural project, please let me know.
Your name, organization, and contact information
STEP 2:
Please COPY the emails you send to
1. SENATE Leaders' legislative assistants -- their names and emails are
included in above linked PDF.
2. HOUSE Leaders' legislative assistants -- their names and emails are included in above linked PDF.
3. Your state senator on the the emails you send to Senate leaders AND to your state representative on the emails you send to House leaders.
If you do not know who your state senator and representative are in the Florida Legislature, please go here and enter your address.
4. The Florida Cultural Alliance at [email protected] so we know who is being communicated with and how many emails are being sent.
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