“In an era when billionaires such as Bill Gates and Richard Branson devote fortunes to fighting diseases and global warming, arts groups are struggling to keep up. They have an ally in Robert Redford. The Academy Award- winning actor and Americans for the Arts, an advocacy group that lobbies for more funding for the arts, have teamed up to urge corporations, foundations and individuals to think of the arts as a way to address educational, health and environmental problems rather than as a competing philanthropic cause.”