Rhode Island: Lieutenant Governor Roberts Launches Buy Local Arts Initiative
Providence Business News, 2/15/10
"Lt. Gov. Elizabeth H. Roberts kicked off what she says will be a month-long effort to promote her 'buy local' arts initiative in Rhode Island on [February 15]. Roberts used an advocacy training session organized by Rhode Island Citizens for the Arts to fight proposed state budget cuts as the occasion to deliver a short pep talk to about 30 participants. Buying local, Roberts said, is a good investment in small businesses in Rhode Island. 'There are 2,000 small businesses in the arts that employ 12,000 people,' she said. She characterized the money spent by the government to support such arts entrepreneurs as local stimulus money...She cited the importance of the arts as an income generator, referring to a 2007 study, which found that arts and culture generated more than $100 million a year to the Providence economy." http://bit.ly/byevnl
"Lt. Gov. Elizabeth H. Roberts kicked off what she says will be a month-long effort to promote her 'buy local' arts initiative in Rhode Island on [February 15]. Roberts used an advocacy training session organized by Rhode Island Citizens for the Arts to fight proposed state budget cuts as the occasion to deliver a short pep talk to about 30 participants. Buying local, Roberts said, is a good investment in small businesses in Rhode Island. 'There are 2,000 small businesses in the arts that employ 12,000 people,' she said. She characterized the money spent by the government to support such arts entrepreneurs as local stimulus money...She cited the importance of the arts as an income generator, referring to a 2007 study, which found that arts and culture generated more than $100 million a year to the Providence economy." http://bit.ly/byevnl
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