First, subsidies from public bodies could become an important support for professional activity. Second, performing arts may be sustained by the nonprofit market. If it can be projected that the nonprofit sector of the performing arts will develop and flourish, no doubt the number of people entering the performing arts as professionals will greatly increase. The growth of the nonprofit market and the availability of quantitative statistics are crucial for the consideration of public policy. Such organizations are active overall in the United States and they have clearly-defined missions or organizational principles.
Advocacy is an important adjunct of their activities.
Institutions Organizations that possess facilities for the performing arts and support on their premises resident artists, serving as core management bodies for performing arts programs are called arts institutions in the Untied States. In Japan, such institutions rarely have resident companies of performers. This refers to the performing arts centers or organizations that exist in local communities in the United States. Advocacy In the United States, efforts to build public consensus on specific issues and present policy recommendations to government bodies and to society in general are known as advocacy, and these activities are considered an important part of the activities of nonprofit organizations. In Japan the very concept of advocacy, if it exists at all, is extremely weak, and remains a field to be developed in the future.