Our Mission:

1. Our Mission: To Promote and Enhance the Creation, Performance, and Appreciation of the Arts in Region 7W BENTON, SHERBURNE, STEARNS, and WRIGHT Counties www.centralmnartsboard.org

2. Writing your Grant • Essential parts • Artistic Merit/Quality • Goals and Outcomes • Measurement/Evaluation • Demonstrating Need/Ability • Marketing/Publicity Efforts • Budget • Draft Review

3. Alignment • Does your proposal align with the mission of your Organization? • Does it align with the mission of your funder?

4. Artistic Merit/quality • Project/purchase/residency description • Be specific and concise • Avoid too much, or the wrong details • Who will benefit or be served? • Be aware of similar efforts in the region

5. Goals and Outcomes • Know the difference • Goals-establishing specific, measurable, attainable, realistic and time-targeted objectives. • Goal setting allows people to specify and then work towards outcomes/objectives • A goal can be long-term or short-term. • Outcomes- the end result

6. SMART Goals model • S- Specific • M- Measureable • A- Achievable • R- Realistic • T-Time-bound

7. Examples of Goals • …increase average attendance in our programs to at least 150 people by offering a more diverse selection of performers… and increasing marketing efforts • professional artists who have dedicated much of their lives to performing classic theatre will be supplied with a venue and audience. • Participants will engage in a group activity at the end of the weekend involving “guerilla art”… • Using modern technologies of video, intelligent lighting, and costuming, the goal is to introduce the timeless, romantic language and brilliant storytelling of Shakespeare to Central Minnesota

8. Examples of Outcomes • Students understand the value of classic theatre through Shakespeare. • professional artists who have dedicated much of their lives to performing classic theatre are supplied with a venue and audience. • Artists feel a stronger connection with other artists within or outside their chosen genre or medium. • As identified through their survey responses artists who attended the workshop now experience less intimidation of large institutional programs and fine art galleries.

9. Measurement • Match your evaluation methods with your goals Methods of Evaluation: • Surveys, attendance count, audience votes, photographs, purposeful observation, conversations with audience/participants • Creative Evaluations • How can you make giving feedback fun or creative? • One Word Photos • Wordle: www.wordle.com

10. Measuring Goals • Quantitative: • number of programs/events presented • estimate of the number of people in attendance • demographic information • Cultural groups served • Ages of participants • Location • arts access questions • Distance traveled to event • Cost of attending • Qualitative: • survey of the audience members at each of the programs • performance related questions • heard this style of music before • appealing/not • rate quality • GFWC members will also seek feedback through informal conversations with audience members.

11. In one word, describe the impact of the Teaching Artist Roster Program.

12. Demonstrating Need • Site input from the community in the form of surveys, comments, focus groups • Focus on those you are serving • Be specific when describing groups/needs • *Families in the East Side neighborhood • *Artists with special needs • *Women artists in their 50’s and older

13. Ways of Demonstrating Need • “During discussions with the ABC Foundation, three themes of need emerged: cleaning up target areas between 15th and 27th Avenues, altering the spaces to discourage further degradation, and involving neighborhood residents so they feel ownership and pride in the changes.” • 65% of audience members surveyed expressed a desire for more spacious, higher quality, and comfortable seating in the theater

14. Marketing/Publicity Efforts • Social Media • Pamphlets, brochures, posters • Radio, cable, newspapers, • Unconventional marketing • Flash mobs • Roving Advertisers

15. Budgeting • Check your math • Be sure numbers are consistent throughout the application • Show the method of calculation • Check guidelines for expenses that are/are not eligible • Call or email with questions

16. Request a Draft Review! * CMAB staff will review and make suggestions to help strengthen your application. * Draft review requests can be made via email: media@centralmnartsboard.org two weeks or more before the grant deadline

17. Additional Resources • Aroundthecloud.org • A website designed to advertise and promote arts and cultural activities within the four counties served by the CMAB.

18. Additional Resources • Minnesota Cultural Data Project • A system that allows arts and cultural organizations to input their financial, programmatic and operational data into an online form. Organizations can then use CDP to generate reports designed to increase management capacity, identify strengths and challenges and inform decision-making. • CMAB will eventually require that applicant organizations are registered with the CDP.

19. Information about other resources • For a list of additional grant resources and a registry of arts organizations in the region, state and nation visit our website at: • http://www.centralmnartsboard.org/resources/localresources.html

20. Program criteria

21. Rubric for Ranking

22. Awarding Funds • Applicants with the highest rankings are awarded until funds are exhausted for that grant round. • CMAB directors make the final decisions • An applicant must score at least a 3.0 in order to be considered for funding

23. Reporting Requirements • Impact of the event on those involved • Method of goal measurement • Stories • Attendance • ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF FUNDS • Legacy or State General funds