Become a Founding Member or Founding Patron

ALL-GA offers two ways for you or your organization to help build and sustain a statewide advocacy effort for Georgia’s creative and cultural industry:

1. Founding Members demonstrate our strength in numbers, and we need every voice. You can become a Founding Member by making a contribution at a level of your choice. Our goal is to recruit Founding Members in every part of the state in the first year. So please join us in this grassroots effort and help us to show a wide breadth of support!

2. Founding Patrons show that ALL-GA also has a great depth of support. You may elect to become a Founding Patron at one of three levels: Advocate ($500), Lead ($1,000) or Benefactor (more than $1,000). Your generous contribution as a Founding Patron will help ALL-GA further develop its infrastructure and accomplish our top arts advocacy objectives in 2005 (read on for those).

Please complete our online form if you wish to become a Founding Member or Founding Patron. Or download a membership form and mail it to us with your contribution of any amount. If you prefer to discuss your giving at the Founding Patron level, please contact ALL-GA.

Your support will enable ALL-GA to:

• Create an online advocacy network. ALL-GA is in the first phase of developing an online advocacy center that includes user-friendly advocacy tools, online connections to elected officials and statewide media, policy papers and a wealth of other information and tools. Other states with a thriving arts and culture community are using such a center effectively. Your support will enable ALL-GA to fully develop its online center.
  
  
• Coordinate 28 advocacy leaders. These leaders will serve as point people in each of the 12 Economic Service Delivery (ESD) districts legislated by the Georgia General Assembly. These teams of leaders will communicate with and convene advocates like you in their communities and mobilize efforts to address issues at the local, state and national levels.
  
  
• Provide expert guidance. A key aspect of ALL-GA’s mission is to provide counsel to educators, artists, board members, arts administrators and others who play key leadership roles in arts and culture throughout Georgia. Strong, visionary leaders make for strong organizations. And an experienced base of cultural leadership in Georgia will create stable, more dynamic and creative cultural organizations that have a place at the table in public discourse and policy.
  
  
• Conduct research into public policy issues that impact Georgia’s creative and cultural industry. Crucial issues that impact arts and culture often surface quickly as well as evolve over time. To help guide decision-making, ALL-GA conducts primary research into these issues and disseminates findings to elected officials, policy makers and organization leaders.