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"Our mission is to serve, advance, and lead the network of organizations and individuals who cultivate, promote, sustain, and support the arts in America. Connecting your best ideas and leaders from the arts, communities, and business, together we can work to ensure that every American has access to the transformative power of the arts"

"For decades, arts leaders and elected officials worked to increase Portland's creative capacity with the understanding that the arts shape neighborhoods, improve K-12 education, boost economic development and enhance livability. In 2008, a region-wide Creative Action Plan prioritized the need for a new dedicated funding stream for arts and arts education. The Creative Advocacy Network (CAN) was established as an independent 501(c)3 organization to develop and advocate for this proposed new public fund for the arts. And in 2012 CAN successfully established the $12.2 Million annual Arts Education and Access Fund."

"The Creative Vitality™ Index (CVI™) is a sophisticated creative-economy measurement tool that arms stakeholders with highly reliable data about an area's creative sectors. The most dynamic creative economy report available today, the CVI™ provides an annual measure of the health and creative vitality of the arts in a specific area. The CVI™ augments the efforts of arts agency leadership and advocates in building strategy and creating policy to strengthen creative sectors or in response to a deficiency. This tool goes far beyond traditional economic impact studies to include annual comparative data about commercial and non-profit creative enterprises and occupations, as well as consumer spending in key creative sectors. As part of WESTAF's commitment to the ongoing enhancement to the CVI™, all CVI™ data will soon be offered in an online format via CVI™ Data on Demand™, a new web tool that allows users to log in and access a variety of reports and combinations of data packaged to your preference--on the fly."

"Passed in 1975, Oregon's Percent for Art legislation mandates that 1% of the direct construction funds of new or remodeled state buildings with construction budgets of $100,000 or more be set aside for the acquisition of art work. The Oregon Arts Commission oversees the Program and maintains archives of slides, photographs and related documentation for the works of art selected. Encompassing over a 30-year period, the database offers access to over 5200 items. The collection offers glimpses of 1545 unique artwork creations, visual narratives of the creative process, and documentation."

"The Luggage Store, also known as The 509 Cultural Center is a non profit artist run multidisciplinary arts organization, founded in 1987. We obtained our 501C3 non profit status in November, 1989.Our mission is to build community by organizing multidisciplinary arts programming accessible to and reflective of the Bay Area's residents."

"ArtsJournal was founded September 13, 1999 in the heady days of the dotcom boom. The site is a digest of some of the best arts and cultural journalism in the English-speaking world. Each day ArtsJournal features link to stories culled from around the internet, including blogs and more than 200 English-language newspapers, magazines and publications featuring writing about arts and culture. Stories from sites that charge for access have generally been excluded. The current AJ site is the fifth design. In 2003 we added blogs and the site now features more than 60 prominent writers on culture. We expect to keep adding to the number with individuals, group and limited-time group debate blogs."

Thingiverse is a repository of 3D models, usually intended for 3D printing, that are completely free to download and print if you have a 3D printer. In daily life, if you don't know how to 3D model but need a household object like a door hook, you can search "door hook" and 3D print it out instead of buying one. Any 3D designer or artist can upload their file for everyone to access.

We use skateboarding as a tool for empowering youth, to create new opportunities and the potential for change. Provide access to education, focus especially on girls and working children, develop leadership opportunities, build friendship, trust, and social capital.

Risk/Reward is dedicated to the advancement and proliferation of the Art of Performance. Founded by artists and located in Portland, Oregon, we champion new and experimental theater, dance, music and performance events as a vital cultural force in our community. Our actions strive to: Increase access to the diverse forms of contemporary performance, while deepening public appreciation and support for performance works of all kinds. Support the creation of new, significant, innovative performances that both challenge and reflect the values of our community. Cultivate passionate and engaged audiences that are hungry for adventurous performance work with connections to a global arts and culture dialogue. Promote intersections between diverse artistic disciplines, while forging connections between local, regional, national, and international artistic communities. Provide direct, meaningful opportunities for audiences to interact with artists, investigate their ideas, learn about their methods of creation and support their ongoing careers.

Artsy's mission is to make all the world's art accessible to anyone with an Internet connection. We are an online platform for discovering, learning about, and collecting art. Our growing collection comprises 125,000+ artworks by 25,000+ artists from leading art fairs, galleries, museums, and art institutions.

Shutterfly is an online art tool used to create photo books, holiday cards, prints, calanders, and much more. Millions of people access shutterfly to store, share and enjoy billons of photos through easy uploads and award-winning products.

The Artstor Digital Library is a nonprofit resource that provides over 1.6 million digital images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and sciences with an accessible suite of software tools for teaching and research. Our community-built collections comprise contributions from outstanding international museums, photographers, libraries, scholars, photo archives, and artists and artists' estates.

Redskins Nation is a half-hour show devoted to giving fans unfiltered access to the day's events at Redskins Park. Hosted by Larry Michael, the show features Redskins players, coaches and sit-down interviews with team officials. (Show re-airs at 11:30 p.m/7:30 a.m. daily)