Announcements

Actions You Can Take NOW:

• Call your House of Representatives member and ask them to sign onto the IMLS letter.
• Write AND call your members of Congress about what could be lost if IMLS is gutted.
• Write AND call your state-level elected officials and ask them to join in speaking up to members of Congress.
• Encourage your museum's Board, supporters, and members to write and call their members of Congress.
• Share your story with local media. Here are some examples of media stories and Op-Eds that have already been published:
  • Trump administration seeks to starve libraries and museums of funding by shuttering this little-known agency
  • Funding for Iowa museums, libraries in jeopardy following Trump executive order
  • Holland Museum facing 'critical financial challenge' amid federal funding cuts
  • Op-Ed: Opinion: The president is dismantling an important program for Alaska libraries and museums - and Alaskans.  Please help save it.
• Invite Congress: Members of Congress will be in their home districts for two weeks in April 13-27, periodically home for extended weekends, and for all of August. Take the opportunity to invite your members of Congress to your museum, schedule a meeting with them in their district offices, or attend public forums that your members of Congress might be hosting.
• If you attended Museums Advocacy Day or National Humanities Day, contact staff members you met to let them know about the potential impacts of the executive order and, if it is a House member, to ask their bosses to sign onto the letter by Reps. Titus and Bonamici.