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The FY2010 Federal Budget

In February 2009, the Obama administration published an outline of its intended spending priorities for the 2010 fiscal year. More about spending directions than dollars proposed, the budget outline highlighted funding priorities for improvements to the nation's infrastructure, education, reform of the health care system, and clean energy.

 

Update: October 2009 (Source: Americans for the Arts)

 

Both the House and Senate passed, for the third consecutive year, a significant budget increase for the National Endowment for the Arts. The FY 2010 Interior Appropriations Bill set the budget for the NEA at $167.5 million, a full $12.5 million above last year’s level.

 

On Oct. 2, 2009, President Obama proclaimed October 2009 as National Arts and Humanities Month, and called upon the people of the United States to join together in observing this month with appropriate ceremonies, activities and programs to celebrate the arts and humanities in America. He stated, "In neighborhoods and communities across the Nation, the arts and humanities lie at the center of revitalization, inspiring creativity, ideas, and new hope in areas that have gone too long without it."

 

 

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009

The Recovery Act provided $50 million to the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), to fund arts projects and activities that preserve jobs in the nonprofit arts sector threatened by declines in philanthropic and other support during the current economic downturn.

 

• Forty percent of the funds were distributed to state arts agencies and regional arts organizations for projects that focus on the preservation of jobs in the arts.
• Sixty percent of the funds were awarded through a Competitive Grants Funding Program to nonprofit organizations who have received an NEA award in the past four years.

 

 

 

FY2009 Omnibus Appropriations Act

In March 2009 President Obama signed into law H.R. 1105, the Omnibus Appropriations Act of 2009, a spending measure designed to carry nine FY2009 appropriations bills through Sept. 30, 2009). The bill totaled about $410 billion and covered funding for FY09 for the nine federal agencies that were not funded under the regular appropriations process in 2008.

 

• The measure included $155 million for the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), an increase of $10.3 million over the fiscal 2008 funding of $144.7 million.
• It came in addition to the $50 million allocated to the NEA by the economic stimulus bill.