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June Advocacy Alert: Invite Congress, Policy Updates, and More

By American Alliance of Museums

Advocacy Alert – June 13, 2025 In this Alliance Advocacy Alert: Invite Congress: Show Congress Firsthand the Value of Your Museum Members of Congress are in their home districts the entire month of August, visiting local businesses …
Latest on IMLS Court Cases

By American Alliance of Museums

Advocacy Alert: June 10, 2025 ALA v. Sonderling On June 6, 2025, in the case ALA v. Sonderling filed by Democracy Forward on behalf of the American Library Association and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Workers, the …
May Advocacy Alert: IMLS Lawsuit, Take Action on Federal Funding, and more

By American Alliance of Museums

May 15, 2025 In this Alliance Advocacy Alert: IMLS Lawsuit Updates On May 13, the Judge in the 21 states’ attorneys general case issued a ruling to halt the dismantling of IMLS and ordered the agency to revert back to pre-executive …
Updates on IMLS and the President’s Budget

By American Alliance of Museums

Advocacy Alert – May 2, 2025 In this Alliance Advocacy Alert: Lawsuit Updates IMLS Lawsuit: Yesterday, a judge granted a Temporary Restraining Order to prevent the Trump Administration from further dismantling the Institute of Museum …
April Alert: Advocacy Activities, Updates on Federal Funding and IMLS

By American Alliance of Museums

Advocacy Alert – April 28, 2025 In this Alliance Advocacy Alert: Upcoming Advocacy Activities Are you attending the 2025 AAM Annual Meeting & MuseumExpo? Learn about and connect on advocacy and policy issues at: AAM Advocacy …
Grant Terminations, Appeals and Other Activities

By American Alliance of Museums

Grant Terminations: IMLS Appeals This week, federal agencies, including IMLS and NEH, have continued to send large numbers of grant termination letters to awardees. If you received an IMLS termination letter, AAM is encouraging museums to …
IMLS, NEH Grant Terminations

By American Alliance of Museums

Grant Termination As noted in previous alerts, the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) has had its staff put on administrative leave with a lack of clarity on the status of already committed grants. In the last few days, news …
Latest on IMLS as of 3/31

By American Alliance of Museums

Latest on IMLS as of 3/31 On March 31, the entire Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) staff was placed on administrative leave as a follow up to the executive order from March 14. Read AAM’s statement. Placing the entire staff …
March Advocacy Updates – IMLS Update and Take Action

By American Alliance of Museums

March 26, 2025 In this Alliance Advocacy Alert: IMLS Update As a follow up to last week’s Advocacy Alert, we wanted to provide you with a few updates and additional ways you can take action. NEW: Representatives Dina Titus (NV-01) and …
Urgent: Act Now to Save IMLS

By American Alliance of Museums

NOW is the time to speak up for museums! On March 14, President Trump issued an Executive Order (EO), Continuing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy, directing further cuts to the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), …