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People For the American Way $80,000
Artsave Project
Washington, D.C.
Tom Andrews, President
Founded in 1980 by a distinguished group of religious and civic leaders, People For the American Way
is a national non-partisan, 300,000-member organization dedicated to promoting and protecting the
First Amendment rights guaranteed by the Constitution. During the past decade and a half, People For
has led the campaign to defend the values that hold this nation together: pluralism; individuality; tolerance;
and freedom of religion, thought, and expression. In 1990, with the National Endowment for
the Arts embroiled in the censorship controversy, People For launched a new program to protect the
autonomy of artists and arts institutions, to protest arts censorship, and to publicize the importance of
the National Endowment for the Arts in our nation's cultural life. Since then, the project, known as
Artsave, has played a vital role in monitoring and reporting on threats to creative expression, helping
artists defend themselves against censorship attempts, and increasing public understanding of the constitutional
principles that protect artistic and other forms of free expression. Our grant is in support of
this work.