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Washington, D.C. - infoZine - More than 70 percent of people with disabilities are not in the labor force, and those who wish to pursue a career in the arts face difficult challenges. On July 22-24, 2009 the National Endowment for the Arts will convene the National Summit on Careers in the Arts for People with Disabilities at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC.

The comprehensive healthcare reform legislation signed by President Obama will impose new requirements on all employers, although companies which employ 50 or fewer full-time (or full-time equivalent) workers will be subject to major responsibilities to either offer health insurance to their employees or pay a penalty for failure to provide such insurance.

The new requirements will be phased in over several years and will be implemented through a series of regulations to be issued by the Department of Health and Human Services. NAMM will monitor regulatory developments and possible legislative revisions to healthcare reform and will work in concert with other affected industry groups to minimize the adverse impacts.

In January 2010, NAMM’s public relations efforts on behalf of the industry topped the charts with the highest number of monthly media stories, readership and advertising dollar equivalency in the history of the association.

With coverage in all types of media outlets including television, web, blogs, newspapers and magazines, NAMM and its Members were featured in more than 2,700 stories, reaching a readership circulation of more than 1.5 billion people. The advertising dollar value was worth nearly $37 million—in the month of January alone.

Messe Frankfurt, producers of the International Musikmesse, Music China, Prolight + Sound, and Prolight + Sound Shanghai, and NAMM, producer of the NAMM Show and Summer NAMM, announced today that they will be co-producing new shows in Russia in May of 2012. The new shows will be called NAMM Musikmesse Russia and Prolight + Sound NAMM Russia and will take place in Moscow's Expo Centre from 16 to 19 May 2012.
 

Dominique Agnew has been dedicated to the music industry, serving NAMM for over 25 years -- most notably as the Associate Director for Trade Show Sales. She bore witness to the growth of the Anaheim Show in the late 1980s and played a vital role in the expansion of international exhibitors over the years. Dominique began her career at NAMM covering nearly every aspect of the trade show, from meetings and events to registration and sales. Her perspective on the development of the industry has been important to the Oral History Collection for documenting our industry’s history. 

 Joy Akerman was one of the first volunteers in NAMM’s Museum of Making Music docent programs back in 1999.  Over the years, she became active in many elements of the museum, including the store and the monthly volunteer training classes.  Her love of people and music made her role at the museum a perfect fit.  More recently, Joy was hired as the receptionist who greets all NAMM visitors and holds court behind the much talked-about lobby desk, which is in the shape of a grand piano.