) to help secure full funding for your 2016-2017 Cultural and Museum Grant.
Suggested subject-box titles -- copy and paste one or create your own for each of the eight separate emails:
Please restore $30.9 million to Cultural and Museum Grants
Please fully restore budget line item 3103 so 413 grants receive their qualified grant amounts
413 Qualified Grants Depend Upon Your Leadership to Fully Fund Them
Suggested email to send to each of the 8 Florida Legislative Leaders listed below:
Dear :
Thank you for your leadership and support for the Florida Department of State Division of Cultural Affairs grants' programs; HOWEVER, I write to request your continued leadership to please restore the necessary $30,933,457 to honor and
fully fund all 413 grant applicants
at the grant levels they qualify for under the Cultural and Museum Grants-Funding Category (budget line item 3103), as leadership did for FY 2014-2015.
The current appropriation recommendations for the Cultural and Museum Grants will only partially fund each of the 413 grant amounts they each specifically qualify for under the Cultural and Museum Grants Category. This state investment helps these 413 organizations leverage the millions in the necessary and required matching dollars from other private and public sources needed to sustain their operations and programs.
Full investment means the preservation and creation of jobs; greater returns to local and state government treasuries; expanded access to more culturally diverse programs for residents, children, and tourists; greater impact on tourism; stronger student engagement and achievement; attraction and retention of new businesses; and many other benefits.
Thank you for your consideration of this request. I've also included below links to more detailed information about the Cultural and Museum Grants Category, along with other detailed information. If you need additional information, please let me know.
Your name, title, organization,address
Links to Additional Information: