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Museums Advocacy Call Thurs, Registration Deadline Today

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Museum Associaion of New York (MANY) staff, members of their Board of Directors’ Advocacy Committee and MANY’s government relations consultant Sheila Healy will lead a conference call July 18th to discuss museum advocacy efforts and recent legislation.

Recently passed New York State legislation is expected to impact museums’ relationships with their communities and their financial sustainability. The call will also address the museum community’s efforts to increase in funding to the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) in 2020.

The call will be held on Thursday, July 18 at 1 pm via the MANY conference call line. To participate you must RSVP to info@nysmuseums.org by 5 pm today Friday, July 12, and you will be provided with the conference call number.

MANY advocacy calls are typically a benefit offered exclusively to MANY members, but this call has been opened to museums and museum professionals across New York State.

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John Warren is founder and editor of the New York Almanack. He's been a media professional for more than 35 years with a focus on history, journalism and documentary production. He has a master's degree in Public History and is on the staff of the New York State Writers Institute, a center for literary arts based at the University at Albany. John lives in the Adirondack Park. He is co-founder of Adirondack Atlas, a geolocation, database and mapping services company serving the region, and his weekly Adirondack Outdoors Conditions Report airs across Northern New York on the North Country Public Radio network.

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