The National Assembly of State Arts Agencies (NASAA) is a non-profit membership organization that provides national representation for state and jurisdictional arts agencies in the USA.
NASAA advocates for federal funding for the arts and aims to protect that portion of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) grant budget that is dedicated to state arts agencies. It provides national representation for state arts agencies, with the goal of:
NASAA monitors state arts agency trends and documents the scope and impact of state arts agency activities. NASAA collects and curates information from a range of sources and publishes data and information on a range of topics:
NASAA publications provide information on strategic planning, needs assessment and program evaluation methods specifically adapted to public arts agencies.