URGENT: Your quick action TODAY for arts & culture is requested before 5:00 p.m.

Quick Action Request for Today Thursday, July 12, 2012

You can help ensure arts, arts education, and culture are integrated into

Florida's Five-Year Strategic Plan -- you must take quick action TODAY before 5 p.m. ET.

It's easy and quick to take action TODAY

before 5:00 p.m. ET.

1. Review here the suggestions the Florida Cultural Alliance submitted to the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity Division of Strategic Business Development for inclusion in Florida's Five-Year Strategic Plan for Economic Development. This statewide plan will be used over the next five years to guide the development of state policies and funding. It's critical that strategies that integrate arts, arts education, and culture are included throughout this plan.

2. If you agree with the suggestions above, please fax today before 5:00 p.m. a quick one-page memo that you and/or your organization agree with the suggestions for inclusion in Florida's Five-Year Strategic Plan for Economic Development submitted to them from the Florida Cultural Alliance. Encourage them to consider integrating some or all of the suggestions. Please fax your your memo/letter today before 5:00 p.m. to 850-414-1734.

Option: There is also an online form you can complete with your ideas as they relate to the Six-Pillar Framework, which this plan is based upon.

Thank you for your follow through on this request.