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Please become a member of the Hawai‘i Arts Alliance. Your small investment can make a BIG IMPACT.Join or renew your one- or three-year membership today! Download and submit the completed membership form, with your payment, below.
Checks payable to: Hawaii Arts Alliance | P.O. Box 3948 | Honolulu | HI | 96812-3948
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Three-Year Membership
Sponsor: $100
Organization: $70
Individual: $40
Senior: $25
One-Year Membership
Sponsor: $35
Organization: $25
Individual: $15
Senior: $10
Dear Friend of the Arts,
A child’s education is not complete unless it includes the arts. Involvement in arts is linked to higher academic performance, increased standardized test scores, more community service, and lower dropout rates at all socioeconomic levels.
Hawai‘i arts education is at risk. The proportion of public school arts educators to deliver services to students is approximately 2,570 to 1. There are only an estimated 10-15 elementary music teachers in the entire state. In secondary schools throughout the state, the ratio of arts teachers to students averages about 150-180 to 1. Potential state budget cuts will further threaten the survival of a complete education for our youth.
Hawai‘i Arts Alliance’s work strives to bridge this education gap. In 2001, the Hawai‘i Arts Alliance advocated for a law mandating implementation of the ARTS FIRST Strategic Plan for statewide standards-based arts education. We developed and implemented the ARTS FIRST Toolkit for teaching artists and elementary classroom teachers. We provide training to our teaching artists who deliver standards-based arts education and arts integration with other core subjects. We provide a sustainable framework for arts education that includes an integrated curriculum with artistic mentoring and professional development.
With your help, we can continue to develop this critical work and be successful in building our community as a whole by enriching the lives and improving education and life experiences through art. Now, we need your help more than ever. Less than 4% of our operating support comes from individuals like you. The Alliance receives 53% of its funding from government grants. This acknowledges that our work has merit and is worthy of investment for the betterment of the community, but government grants are not sustainable, and in this economic climate, will continue to be greatly reduced.
Funding arts education is an investment that will have immediate AND long-lasting value. Unlike any discipline arts-specific organizations, the Alliance provides collective value to the arts sector as a whole by:
•leading and mobilizing key players necessary to advance the arts;
•acting as a central touch point to champion all arts and influence key shifts in arts resources;
•providing regular communications to all arts-related organizations and individuals;
•by serving on the national level as a member of the Kennedy Center Alliance for Arts Education Network, and as State Captain to Americans for the Arts, setting an example for arts education and advocacy for other states.
Please become a member of the Hawai‘i Arts Alliance. Your small investment can make a BIG IMPACT.
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Members ListP.O. Box 3948 l Honolulu l Hawaii l 96812-3948 l Phone: 808.533.2787 l Fax: 808.526.9040 l arts@hawaiiartsalliance.org
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