Become or Renew a UCA Membership
This level grants UCA membership to one sponsoring individual.
UCA offers services and programming in the realm of advocacy, professional development, and building awareness. As a member, you receive a number of benefits:
Advocacy
- Legislative, school board, municipal government & other policy updates throughout the year
- Free or discounted admission to advocacy forums
- Training on how to advocate for culture at the municipal, state, and federal level
- Lobbying and advocacy on behalf of our members’ interests and concerns, including their financial requests
- Free or reduced admission to UCA-sponsored candidate debates
- Access to Utah Cultural Advocacy Alliance's (UCAA is our c4) annual survey of candidates for office
- Access to UCAA's advocacy how-to toolkit
- Reduced admission to Arts Advocacy Day
- Information about additional advocacy days
- Legislative & policy updates throughout the year
- Access to easy-to-use contact lists for elected officials
- Be the first to know about calls-to-action that impact the cultural sector
Professional Development
- Toolkits on subjects such as nonprofit management, running your own business as an artist, and more
- Free or reduced admission to Culture Bytes and any of our other professional development programs
- Information on group insurance programs to artists
- Connecting organizations and individual artists with business development support
- Access to our annually updated press list
- Subscription to our weekly newsletter
- Access to UCA Facebook discussion group, a place to connect, share, and crowdsource with colleagues
- Discounted admission to annual UCA Luncheon
- Discounted admission to annual UCA Pillars of the Community Awards Event
Awareness
- Ability to advertise news, events, and more in the UCA blog and newsletter, with over 10,000 views a month
- Access to annual State of the State report communicating the economic impact of Utah's arts, cultural, and humanities sector
- Stay tuned for new benefits as our organization continues to grow
ORGANIZATIONAL SPONSORING MEMBERSHIP BENEFITS ($550):
In addition to all the benefits listed above, your sponsoring membership will receive:
- a free representative at special legislative functions
- sponsorship of one Professional Development Deep Dive (signage, literature, and verbal thank you’s at event)
- recognition in program at Annual Meeting
- signage & logo in program at our Annual Meeting
- two free tickets to our Annual Meeting
- recognition in our newsletter as well as banner ads on our website
- get an ad in the email newsletter for 1 month, which will be seen by our nearly 9,000 subscribers
- Membership benefits are extended to all staff and board members of your organization