{"id":9796,"date":"2014-03-14T09:54:31","date_gmt":"2014-03-14T14:54:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conservators-converse.org\/?p=9796"},"modified":"2014-03-14T09:54:31","modified_gmt":"2014-03-14T14:54:31","slug":"tell-your-representative-support-museum-funding-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/2014\/03\/14\/tell-your-representative-support-museum-funding-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Tell Your Representative: Support Museum Funding Today!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once again, in conjunction with Museums Advocacy Day, Representatives Paul Tonko (D-NY), Leonard Lance (R-NJ), Louise Slaughter (D-NY) and Michael Grimm (R-NY) are circulating a letter urging the House Appropriations Committee to provide robust funding in FY 2015 for the Office of Museum Services (OMS) at the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS).<br \/>\n<strong>The deadline to sign on to this letter is\u00a0TUESDAY, MARCH 25, 2014.\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\nThe Office of Museum Services is receiving $30.1 million this year, well below its authorized level of $38.6 million. The Tonko\/Lance\/Slaughter\/Grimm letter is your Representative&#8217;s chance to go on record in support of museum funding, so \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/r20.rs6.net\/tn.jsp?f=001jgbSlW1vKJo6OEU0Z9_FQlf2GeZBd1Y04ckMkvrDSJ0-tWuFX9n61_FmvTGUzv7swUPV_LDuIgNCu2ufLYgM387fzkTTudR9QQCDHhk8oCXglBzR3oU9Tck_Cx5URn3W8ekfng9DQOqwliKN8JfVRyTtHR8T93yANwymwG2O4y5h0vzdX6WjDWAwvQhgd3R2&amp;c=IjSv5zlkD9rrxWA5kydoiMHjVMnqVkGkb9I_eG_fCBDuXtQvcrqS2w==&amp;ch=phTbxuCwsRSwp2x-dePN-PNzTw-r_MagEbrkEq9jLoKlqml5oCoyog==\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ask them to sign on today<\/a>!<br \/>\n&#8220;This is our opportunity to ask members of Congress to take a stand in support of funding for the IMLS Office of Museum Services by signing this bipartisan letter,&#8221; said\u00a0Alliance President Ford W. Bell.\u00a0&#8220;I applaud Representatives Paul Tonko, Leonard Lance, Louise Slaughter and Michael Grimm for their continued leadership in supporting the essential role of museums in communities across the country.&#8221;<br \/>\nLast year, we contacted legislators in record numbers and made a real difference: a record-breaking number of members of Congress signed the letter supporting funding for the IMLS Office of Museum Services. Keep that momentum going by\u00a0<a>contacting your Representative<\/a>now.<br \/>\nThank you for acting on this important issue!<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/r20.rs6.net\/tn.jsp?f=001jgbSlW1vKJo6OEU0Z9_FQlf2GeZBd1Y04ckMkvrDSJ0-tWuFX9n61_FmvTGUzv7swUPV_LDuIgNCu2ufLYgM387fzkTTudR9QQCDHhk8oCXglBzR3oU9Tck_Cx5URn3W8ekfng9DQOqwliKN8JfVRyTtHR8T93yANwymwG2O4y5h0vzdX6WjDWAwvQhgd3R2&amp;c=IjSv5zlkD9rrxWA5kydoiMHjVMnqVkGkb9I_eG_fCBDuXtQvcrqS2w==&amp;ch=phTbxuCwsRSwp2x-dePN-PNzTw-r_MagEbrkEq9jLoKlqml5oCoyog==\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Act Now-Ask Your Representative to Support the IMLS Office of MuseumServices!<\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once again, in conjunction with Museums Advocacy Day, Representatives Paul Tonko (D-NY), Leonard Lance (R-NJ), Louise Slaughter (D-NY) and Michael Grimm (R-NY) are circulating a letter urging the House Appropriations Committee to provide robust funding in FY 2015 for the Office of Museum Services (OMS) at the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/2014\/03\/14\/tell-your-representative-support-museum-funding-today\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tell Your Representative: Support Museum Funding Today!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":7276,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-outreach-and-advocacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}