Arts Organizations,
Below you will find information on a grant for children’s theaters (Jan 13 deadline), NEA Our Town grant guidelines are now available (Jan 11 info webinar offered), you can now apply for 2012 National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Awards, IRS steps up enforcement of independent contractor laws, rates and options to participate in the 2012-2013 Montana Cultural Treasures Guide to Museums, Art Galleries, Bookstores and Theatres is now available, The Big Read is accepting 2012 applications, and Annual Montana History Conference is looking for session proposals.
And . . . Projects in Development Listing is designed to be a resource for presenters interested in participating in a Southern Exposure project or seeking partners for a project, The Arts and Human Development presents evidence based claims of the effect of the arts on the health and well-being of children, adolescents and young adults, and older adults, an article on social networking in the arts, How Strong Is Your Social Net? findings record a snapshot of the arts field's use of digital and social media, Getting In On the Act: How Arts Groups Are Creating Opportunities for Active Participation, I Survived an IRS Audit, Board Café: Questions to Ask Prospective Board Members, three items from the Artful Manager blog and four job openings.
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Beck McLaughlin Education & Web Services Director Montana Arts Council PO Box 202201 Helena, MT 59620-2201 406-444-6522 Arts in Education Hotline 800-282-3092 http://artscounterbalance.wordpress.com/
ALL CHILDREN’S THEATRE FOUNDATION GRANTS FOR NONPROFIT THEATERS
http://www.childrenstheatrefoundation.org/grants.html
Deadline: January 13, 2012. Grants available through the All Children’s Theatre Foundation are dedicated to sustaining theater arts education for grade school students and creating new opportunities for theater artists. Specifically, the Aurant Harris Theatre Grant is awarded to small and midsize nonprofit theaters throughout the United States. Financial support can be used for premiering a work, performance expenses, supporting established productions, and securing scripts and equipment.
http://www.childrenstheatrefoundation.org/grants.html
Deadline: January 13, 2012. Grants available through the All Children’s Theatre Foundation are dedicated to sustaining theater arts education for grade school students and creating new opportunities for theater artists. Specifically, the Aurant Harris Theatre Grant is awarded to small and midsize nonprofit theaters throughout the United States. Financial support can be used for premiering a work, performance expenses, supporting established productions, and securing scripts and equipment.
2012 Our Town Grant Guidelines Now Available
The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) has posted the guidelines for 2012 Our Town grants.
Our Town supports creative placemaking projects that contribute toward the livability of communities and help transform them into lively, beautiful, and sustainable places with the arts at their core. Our Town will invest in creative and innovative projects in which communities, together with their arts and design organizations and artists, seek to:
The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) has posted the guidelines for 2012 Our Town grants.
Our Town supports creative placemaking projects that contribute toward the livability of communities and help transform them into lively, beautiful, and sustainable places with the arts at their core. Our Town will invest in creative and innovative projects in which communities, together with their arts and design organizations and artists, seek to:
· Improve their quality of life.
· Encourage creative activity.
· Create community identity and a sense of place.
· Revitalize local economies.
A key to the success of creative placemaking involves the arts in partnership with a committed governmental leadership and the philanthropic sector. All Our Town applications must reflect a partnership that will provide leadership for the project. These partnerships must involve two primary partners: a nonprofit organization and a local government entity. One of the two primary partners must be a cultural (arts or design) organization.
Pending availability of funding, grants will range from $25,000 to $150,000. Projects may include planning, design, and arts engagement activities that reflect a systemic approach to civic development and a persuasive vision for enhanced community vibrancy. The application deadline is Thursday, March 1, 2012 at 11:59PM EST. Complete guidelines can be found here: http://ccsso.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3222734d2cafa7abd15e2c1b2&id=be2965f8ec&e=fa55d9595e.
NEA staff will be conducting Our Town webinars on Wednesday, January 11 and Tuesday, February 7, 2012 to answer questions and walk applicants through this year’s guidelines. Schedule and registration details will be posted on the Our Town guidelines webpage.
NEA staff will be conducting Our Town webinars on Wednesday, January 11 and Tuesday, February 7, 2012 to answer questions and walk applicants through this year’s guidelines. Schedule and registration details will be posted on the Our Town guidelines webpage.
Apply for 2012 National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Awards
The President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities, in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Institute of Museum and Library Services, is pleased to invite applications for the 2012 National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Awards. The 12 award-winning programs this year will receive $10,000 and an invitation to accept their award from the President's Committee's Honorary Chairman, First Lady Michelle Obama, at a ceremony at the White House. After-school and out-of-school time arts and humanities programs sponsored by museums, libraries, performing arts organizations, educational institutions, arts centers, community service organizations, businesses and eligible government entities are encouraged to consider submitting an application. Programs applying for the award must meet all of the National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Awards eligibility criteria. The deadline for application submissions is January 31, 2012, 5:00 p.m. Eastern. Contact info@nahyp.org or 202-682-5571 with questions regarding the application.
IRS Steps Up Enforcement with DOL (Department of Labor) and State Authorities
BEWARE! The IRS has begun a coordinated effort of enforcement and sharing information with the DOL and state authorities. A U.S. Department of Labor study found that as many as 50 percent of businesses misclassified employees as independent contractors. (source: pepperlaw.com)
Misclassification ramifications can be severe. The fine for an intentional misclassification can be a penalty equal to 100% of the amount in taxes owed. Simple mistakes on negligent reports can impose a 20% accuracy-related penalty! (source: isnare.com) 1099 compliance issues relating to independent contractors continues to be a dilemma to most employers today.
Learn the latest info on determining proper status at http://www.irs.gov/newsroom/article/0,,id=173423,00.html and http://www.irs.gov/businesses/small/article/0,,id=99921,00.html.
Information about rates and options to participate in the 2012-2013 Montana Cultural Treasures Guide to Museums, Art Galleries, Bookstores and Theatres is now available. There is also a free listing option. This highly successful publication has a printing run of 100,000 and is distributed widely throughout the state.
Deadline: Wednesday, February 1, 2012 Click here for details: http://www.montanasculturaltreasures.com/MTCT2012%20sales_jq.pdf
The Big Read Accepting 2012 Applications
The Big Read is accepting applications from nonprofit organizations to develop communitywide reading programs between September 2012 and June 2013. The Big Read, organized by the National Endowment for the Arts, is a national program designed to revitalize the role of literature in American culture and to encourage reading for pleasure and enlightenment. Organizations selected to participate in The Big Read receive a grant, access to on-line training resources and opportunities, and educational and promotional materials designed to support widespread community involvement and participation. Approximately 75 organizations from across the country will be selected. To review the guidelines and application instructions, visit The Big Read website; application deadline is February 1, 2012. For more information, contact Arts Midwest at 612-238-8010 or TheBigRead@artsmidwest.org
2012 marks the 150th anniversary of America’s first Homestead Act. In observance of this milestone, the 39th Annual Montana History Conference will examine the theme, “Opportunity for All? Homesteading Next Year Country.”
The conference will be held in Helena, September 20-22, 2012. The deadline for submitting a session proposal is February 1. Session proposals relating to any aspect of homesteading are encouraged. Possible topics include:
· The impact of the Homestead Act on Montana’s first peoples
· The impact of homesteaders on the environment
· The impact of the environment on homesteaders
· Daily life on a homestead
· The material culture of the homestead era
· Homesteading as it relates to women’s history
· Homesteading as it relates to ethnic and minority history
· The role of archaeology in telling the homestead story
· The effect of homesteading on Montana politics
· The impact of homesteading on rural settlement and community development
· Homesteading and family folklore
· The role of railroads in homesteading and land development
For more information on the conference or instructions for submitting a proposal, visit: http://mhs.mt.gov/education/ConferencesWorkshops.asp
Southern Exposure:
Present the Performing Arts of Latin America in Your Community
Projects in Development Listing Now Available!
Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation is providing a vehicle to connect presenters interested in presenting performing artists from Latin America through the Southern Exposure program through a Projects in Development listing. This listing is designed to be a resource for presenters interested in participating in a Southern Exposure project or seeking partners for a project they are developing in order to submit an application by the February 10, 2012 deadline. Inclusion in the listing does not constitute approval or endorsement by the Foundation of a project or organization. To view the current listing, click here.
Detailed information on Southern Exposure can be found in the program's guidelines. Questions should be directed to Adam Bernstein, Deputy Director, Programs at adam@midatlaticarts.org.
Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation is providing a vehicle to connect presenters interested in presenting performing artists from Latin America through the Southern Exposure program through a Projects in Development listing. This listing is designed to be a resource for presenters interested in participating in a Southern Exposure project or seeking partners for a project they are developing in order to submit an application by the February 10, 2012 deadline. Inclusion in the listing does not constitute approval or endorsement by the Foundation of a project or organization. To view the current listing, click here.
Detailed information on Southern Exposure can be found in the program's guidelines. Questions should be directed to Adam Bernstein, Deputy Director, Programs at adam@midatlaticarts.org.
NEA Announces Research, Interagency Task Force on Arts and Human Development
On November 30, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) released a white paper summarizing current research relating the arts to positive cognitive, social and behavioral outcomes. The Arts and Human Development presents evidence based claims of the effect of the arts on the health and well-being of children, adolescents and young adults, and older adults. The white paper also identifies research gaps and makes recommendations for future research. State arts agencies, researchers and arts education specialists will find the concise summaries of studies within the white paper to be helpful for advocacy and case making.
An article on social networking recommended by Arni:
How Strong Is Your Social Net? Survey Results Available
The final results of Trudel | MacPherson's 2011 national survey, How Strong Is Your Social Net? are now available. The findings record a snapshot of the arts field's use of digital and social media, including perceptions of the results these tools have delivered thus far. The report also takes a look at some of the biggest trends for digital and social media in the upcoming year. This report marks the first step toward an ongoing data collection effort on digital and social media in arts organizations. For more information about this initiative, see NASAA's How Strong Is Your Social Net? web seminar transcript.
WolfBrown Reports on Participatory Arts Practices
A WolfBrown report commissioned by the Irvine Foundation examines new trends in arts participation. In Getting In On the Act: How Arts Groups Are Creating Opportunities for Active Participation, the authors give a helpful overview of participation's role in today's culture ecology, the benefits of participatory arts practice, and the kinds of programs and activities that have used these practices. Central to this report is WolfBrown's newly developed spectrum of participation, ranging from spectating to audience-as-artist, that gives artists, organizations and funders a way to easily define the audience's role in a performance. Also included are successful participatory arts practices case studies across a range of disciplines.
I Survived an IRS Audit
Finance & Strategy • By Steve Zimmerman, CPA, MBA •
Uh oh. We are all afraid of getting audited by the IRS, but we don't really know what would happen in one. Here is the True Life story of an environmental organization's audit, how they survived, and their tips for the rest of us.
It's the phone call everyone dreads: "Hello, your organization has been selected for an IRS audit." The call came to Karl Dickson (pictured left), board treasurer of an environmental nonprofit in Milwaukee, and his caller ID showed that the call came from an unidentified cell phone. Karl's instincts were to suspect a scam.
Karl questioned the caller who told him (not very believably) that "most IRS agents don't have an office" and therefore use cell phones. She also told him they had been selected by random and that he was called because his number was on the IRS Form 990. She told him to expect a letter. (What? No IRS agent flashing a badge? Not even certified mail? If we're going to be audited, at least can we have some drama?) To read more: http://www.blueavocado.org/node/718
Questions to Ask Prospective Board Members
Board Cafe • By Jan Masaoka •
A coffee date isn't a good idea only for beginning, tentative romances. A coffee or lunch date is an easy way to meet with individuals who may be good candidates for your nonprofit board. If you spend a few minutes ahead of time thinking about what to ask, you'll end up having a much better idea of whether it's a good match.
Frequently a first meeting with a prospective board member is set up as a lunch or coffee with a current board member and the executive director. It's a good idea to state clearly at the beginning that this is a "get-to-know-you" meeting and that no decisions need to be made before the meeting ends. Say that you'll follow up with a phone call to see if the individual is still interested and whether the board's nominating committee is still interested. If so, there may be another step or the nomination may go to the full board for a vote.
An alternative process is to have profiles of several candidates brought to the board. Board members sort the list into three groups: To read more: http://www.blueavocado.org/node/722
THE ARTFUL MANAGER | WEEKLY SUMMARY | a weblog on the business of arts & culture by Andrew Taylor, ataylor@artsjournal.com
ACTIVE CULTURE...
A project in rural Wisconsin shows how arts partnerships, like fermentation, can break down complex structures into simple sugars with delicious results.
Posted: Monday, December 5, 2011
ARE YOU READY? HONESTLY, ARE YOU?...
It's not a glamorous or high-profile part of a cultural manager's job, but if you touch lives, own or manage assets, or serve a role in your community, emergency readiness is a baseline requirement for your work.
Posted: Wednesday, December 7, 2011
IF YOU CAN'T GET ON THE RADIO, GET IN A CAB...
VICE online magazine offers a fascinating bit of music history from South Africa with a story about the rise of Kwaito house music in the 1990s via taxi cabs.
Posted: Thursday, December 8, 2011
JOB OPENINGS
National Assembly of State Arts Agencies
POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT:
DIRECTOR OF ADMINISTRATION AND FINANCE
The Director of Administration and Finance provides the management oversight that enables the
organization to most effectively and efficiently fulfill its mission. Reporting to the CEO and
working with the senior management team, the position contributes to the development,
improvement and implementation of organizational strategies, policies, and procedures. Primary
responsibilities include oversight of the organization’s administrative functions, managing
planning and budgeting timelines and procedures, supervising human resource activities and
interacting with the board and membership.
Starting salary $60-75K, depending upon qualifications and experience. See attached for more info.
Application deadline is January 29, 2012. No faxes or phone calls, please.
Ucross Foundation
We are currently seeking to hire a hands-on professional Development Director. See attached for more info.
Ucross Foundation
2012 Internship (Paid)
Deadline: January 31, 2012
Main duties:
Assistance to the Residency Manager with Resident needs, including but not limited to town trips, airport pickups and returns, scheduling, attending orientation sessions, Selection Committee meeting arrangements, assisting with Fall 2012 invitation mailing, and other duties.
General office assistance may include newsletter writing and proofreading, bulk mailing assistance, attendance at staff meetings, art gallery reception work and helping out at public events including July 3 community fireworks event.
Qualifications Needed: BA degree in Fine Arts, Communications or other related degree. Excellent computer skills, Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft Word. Due to our rural location, the intern will need his/her own personal transportation.
Dates of employment: flexible, generally six to eight months. Position open as of February 1, 2012.
Work requirements: 35 hours per week
Benefits: Monthly stipend and housing. See attached PDF for more info
Director of Development Marin Symphony
San Rafael, California
The Marin Symphony seeks a dynamic Development professional to join our team. The organization's 2011-2012 operating budget is $1.4M and the annual contributed revenue budget is $700,000. For more info see attached PDF.
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