Successful Strategies for Increasing Private Sector Partnerships and Support Eva Caldera Assistant Chairman for Partnership and Strategic Initiatives National Endowment for the Humanities (an independent agency of the United States government) FIFTH REGULAR MEETING OF THE INTER-AMERICAN COMMITTEE ON CULTURE March 21-22, 2013 Eighth Plenary Session: Resources for Culture Financing of Culture: Public-Private Responsibility and Investment

U.S. Government Support  The U.S. government’s three independent grant-making cultural agencies o Institute of Museum and Library Services $242.6 million o National Endowment for the Arts$146.2 million o National Endowment for the Humanities$146.2 million  Corporation for Public Broadcasting a non-profit corporation created by an act of the U.S. Congress funded by the U.S. government to promote non-profit public broadcasting $420 million  Public-private partnerships that receive federal appropriations o Smithsonian Institution $811.5 million o National Gallery of Art $114.1 million o The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts $ 36.8 million  Total of all U.S. federal government support for cultural agencies and federally-supported national cultural institutions in FY2012 $ 1,917,400,000

IMLS/MacArthur Foundation Learning Labs Partnership  President Obama’s Educate to Innovate initiative (  IMLS 21 st Century Skills initiative (  MacArthur Digital Media and Learning initiative ( Result? $4 million IMLS/MacArthur commitment to creating Learning Labs in libraries and museums across the country

Examples of artists receiving royalties from recent Smithsonian Folkways recordings Archives of the Andes—Universidad Católica, Peru Capoeira Angola, Brazil Hatun Kotama from Otavalo, Ecuador La India Canela, Dominican Republic Los Gauchos de Roldán, Uruguay Los Hermanos Lovo, El Salvador Los Maestros del Joropo Oriental and La Sardina de Naiguatá, Venezuela Marimba Chapinlandia, Guatemala Harp masters from Paraguay Artists and groups from Chile, Colombia, and Mexico and more