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SPECIAL OPPORTUNITY
AWARDS
Special Call for
Proposals: Alexandria Commission for the Arts
Special Opportunity Awards Grants
For a more detail on Eligibility
requirements, Click Here.
Purpose: The purpose of these
grants is to stimulate arts providers to sponsor small- scale new,
innovative arts projects.
Description: These grants support
a wide variety of art activities, which are undertaken to benefit
the citizens of Alexandria. Special Opportunity Awards are intended
to support new and innovative projects that have clear visibility
and long-lasting impact to the City of Alexandria. Statewide, regional,
or national projects will not be considered. This is a simplified
specialty grant used to encourage short-term, small-scale art projects
by arts organizations.
Funding Limitations: These
grants are offered on a "funds available" basis and advertised
with a special call for proposals. Up to $5,000 per grant can be
awarded; awards do not require matching funds by the organization.
Deadline: Monday, December 1, 2008
Project Timeframe: Special Opportunity
Grant projects need to take place beginning January 1, 2009 and
ending June 30, 2009.
Eligibility: applicants for
City Arts Special Opportunity Awards must:
- Provide an artistic event or program
that takes place in the City of Alexandria;
- Have been in existence as an organization
for one year before applying for a grant;
- Provide (as part of the application)
a minimum of one full year of financial history completed prior
to the grant deadline.
In
addition to the general requirements listed above, applicants for
the City Arts Special Opportunity Awards must meet the requirements
listed at this link, Click Here.
Special Opportunity
Awards applicants may:
- Be organizationally based outside
the City of Alexandria.
- Be organizations that do not have
as their major purpose the advancement and support of the arts,
but which, during the immediate past two years, have produced
or presented arts events or projects in the City of Alexandria
as a significant part of their overall program.
- Apply for more than one Special
Opportunity Award within the same grant cycle.
- Apply for a Special Opportunity
Award without regard to any other grant applications pending or
received in the same grant cycle.
GRANT-SPECIFIC
REQUIRED ATTACHMENTS:
City Arts Special Opportunity Award:
Please follow this outline
when preparing the grant application. The program outline acts as
a guide for writing the grant application and describes grant-specific
attachments. Collate the grant packet in the exact order of the
grant outline.
I. Organizational Background
(1 page maximum)
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State the mission of the organization
Provide a brief history of the organization. |
II. Planned Project (1 page
maximum)
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Describe briefly all art activities
proposed under this grant application.
Describe the means in place to ensure reliable attendance figures. |
III. Artistic Experience
(1 page maximum) Describe the organization's
artistic
effectiveness in terms of:
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B.
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Artistic credentials of the
proposed principal participants.
Will the proposed project provide the opportunity to continue
artist development and innovation? |
IV. Impact on the City of
Alexandria (1 page maximum)
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A.
B.
C.
D.
E.
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How does the program enhance
the artistic experience of the citizens of
the City of Alexandria?
Describe how this project will help address a significant artistic
need in
the community.
Describe the project's ability to foster outreach to, and participation
by,
the diverse audiences and communities of the City.
Does the program provide an opportunity to develop local talent?
What is the project's potential impact on the citizens of Alexandria
and the visibility of the Alexandria arts community? |
The City of Alexandria
is committed to compliance with the City’s Human Rights Code
and the Americans with Disabilities Act. To request a reasonable
accommodation or to request materials in an alternative format,
call Cheryl Anne Colton at 703.838.6348 (TTY 703.838.4902) or e-mail
at cherylanne.colton@alexandriava.gov.
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General Eligibility Requirements:
All grant applicants must meet the following eligibility requirements:
- Demonstrate artistic competence in, and the ability
to produce, present or otherwise directly support disciplines
that enrich the artistic experience of citizens of the
City of Alexandria. Supported disciplines include music,
dance, literature, theatre, the visual arts and/or combinations
thereof.
- Establish that the project/program proposed will enrich
the artistic experience of citizens of the City of Alexandria
in a significant way.
- Demonstrate sufficient management skills to carry out
the proposed project/program in a financially sound and
business-like manner.
- In the conduct of the project/program not engage in
discrimination on the basis of race, color, sex, religion,
ancestry, national origin, martial status, age, sexual
orientation or disability.
- Not engage in any activities or present any programs
in violation of the statues of the Commonwealth of Virginia
or ordinances of the City of Alexandria.
- Comply with Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of
1973, as amended, which includes provisions that no otherwise
qualified person, solely by reason of a handicap in any
way or form, shall be excluded from, be denied the benefits
of, or be subjected to discrimination in any form in any
program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.
- Where required, comply with federal Fair Labor Standards
which stipulate a) that all professional performers and
supporting personnel will be paid not less than the minimum
compensation as determined by the Secretary of Labor to
be prevailing minimum compensation for persons employed
in similar activities; and that professional and support
personnel will not be subject to unsanitary, hazardous
or dangerous working conditions in organizations' projects
or products.
Ineligible Organizations or Artists: Applicants
are ineligible for consideration by the Commission if:
- There is a default of payment to any agency of the
City of Alexandria.
- Applicant does not complete the grant application in
full, or fail to supply information or documentation when
and where required.
- Applicant, during either of the last two fiscal years,
fails to complete the ACA-funded program/project according
to the terms of the grant application, without full permission
and consent of the Commission.
- Applicant failed to complete a final report form or
have an outstanding final report form from a previously
awarded grant from the Commission.
- The grant request is for an event or activity not considered
by the Commission to be an artistic event. (Note: An ethnic
festival, as defined by the City of Alexandria, is not
considered to be an artistic event, however artistic activities
included in, part of, or sponsored by an ethnic festival
may be eligible for project grants.)
Activities Not Funded. The Commission does not fund:
- Activities intended to influence, either directly or
indirectly, the actions of any public official or body,
elected or appointed, on any existing or proposed legislation.
- Activities (with the exception of those proposed in
a technical assistance grant application)
restricted, entirely or substantially, to the membership
of the organization.
- Activities completed prior to the beginning of a granting
period.
- Activities that take place outside the city limits of
Alexandria.
- Activities that are exclusively religious in nature.
- Capital expenditures associated with improvement in
facilities and/or purchases of equipment in excess of
$1,000.
- Expenses related to reduction of accumulated deficits
or debts.
- Expenses related to fund-raising events.
- Expenses related to social functions, whether an integral
part of the project funded by the Commission or not.
- College and university-based or K-12 projects that are
part of a required course or curriculum.
- K-12 projects designed primarily for private schools.
- Awards, fellowships and prizes.
- Programs or projects that are essentially rehabilitative
or therapeutic in nature.
- Programs or projects designed to achieve goals that
are primarily political, religious or social.
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