You can help CENTERSTAGE by becoming an active advocate for the theater to your local, state, and national elected officials and by voting for public policy initiatives that promote and fund the arts.

Advocacy efforts include lobbying your local municipality, the State of Maryland, Congress, the White House, and various other agencies; monitoring new legislation that impacts not-for-profit organizations; and by participating in national events and campaigns designed to show support for arts funding.

Contact CENTERSTAGE at info@centerstage.org for information about current government issues impacting CENTERSTAGE, and how you can support our efforts 

CENTERSTAGE also encourages you to support the following advocacy organizations—sign up using the groups’ links below to receive email bulletins with late-breaking arts advocacy news:

Maryland Citizens for the Arts The leading voice for arts advocacy in Maryland.

Americans for the Arts The leading nonprofit organization for advancing the arts in America. Their three primary goals: increasing public and private sector support for the arts; ensuring that every American child has access to a high-quality arts education; and strengthening communities through the arts.

Government Support and Special Grants

The Leading National Theatres Program, a joint initiative of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

Government Grants

• CENTERSTAGE is funded by an operating grant from the Maryland State Arts Council, an agency dedicated to cultivating a vibrant cultural community where the arts thrive. Funding for the Maryland State Arts Council is also provided by the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.
• CENTERSTAGE’s catalog of Education Programs has been selected by the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities as a 2011 National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award Finalist.
• CENTERSTAGE participates annually in Free Fall Baltimore, a program of the Baltimore Office of Promotion and the Arts
• Baltimore County Executive, County Council, & Commission on Arts and Sciences
• Carroll County Government
• Howard County Arts Council through a grant from Howard County Government
  

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We appreciate your patience and assistance in keeping our lists current. To advise us of corrections, please call 410.986.4026.