In response to Donald Trump’s budget proposal, which includes eliminating the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities, artists, writers, and organizations are protesting in a variety of ways.

Some are writing postcards to their representatives, according to Literary Hub, which has posted a sample of thirteen postcards by the following authors: Naomi Benaron, Blair Braverman, Adrienne Celt, Marcy Dermansky, Jimin Han, Michael David Lukas, Téa Obreht, Tracy O’Neill, Kristen Radtke, Mark Sarvas, Nathan Schneider, Clea Simon, and Tracy Winn. Literary Hub is also encouraging more writers and readers to participate by sharing what they’ve sent to their representatives using the hashtag #NEAProtestcards.

Meanwhile, the Los Angeles Times is exploring how the city of Los Angeles will function without the NEA. Jessica Gelt at Times writes that, on a daily basis, the paper will “look at a different community group, how its NEA funds were spent, what artistic and public good did or didn’t result, and what the cultural landscape would look like if that program were to disappear.”

Gelt continues, “When Trump’s budget proposal landed last week, one of our first calls went to Theatre of Hearts, which has received seed money from the NEA on and off since 2004. This year, it was awarded $15,000 to support its Literacy Alive Mural Program, which will bring professional artists to the Central Juvenile Hall School near downtown L.A. to mentor students in creative writing and visual arts.”

Theatre of Hearts also received a $15,000 matching grant, raising the total budget to $30,000.

“These kids would never, ever have this opportunity otherwise,” said Theatre of Hearts Executive Director Sheila Scott-Wilkinson to the Los Angeles Times.

Likewise, Greta Weber, writing for Washingtonian, describes DC’s creative industry as “deeply reliant on annual NEA grants”—particularly the “smaller, less-established organizations,” like Dance Place, Capital Fringe, or even the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, which is itself partly funded by the NEA.

Britt Julious writes in Rolling Stone of various programs around the country that depend on governmental grants for their survival, including the National Book Foundation, Illinois Humanities, Illinois Speaks, and the Arts Council for Greater Grand Rapids.

Jane Beachy, a manager of arts programming at Illinois Humanities told the Rolling Stone, “I certainly don’t think that the NEA and NEH being defunded would in any way stop art from being made or stop the humanities from existing. That’s impossible. But what it does is make a value statement that not only impacts people’s bank accounts, but also the way we understand what is valued in our society and the degree to which we feel alienated by those values.”

Related reading: What’s the history behind the loathing of the NEA? Travis M. Andrews offers his opinion in the Washington Post.