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Cultural Funding Programs
The City recognizes the importance of arts and culture in creating a vibrant and healthy community reflecting the character of the city and its citizens. These assets should be shared, experienced, nurtured and supported so that all of El Paso citizens have an opportunity to experience first rate arts and culture programs.
One of the primary roles of the Museums and Cultural Affairs Department of the City of El Paso is to Implement a Cultural Funding Program to assist in the development of El Paso's creative sector, its artists and cultural organizations, and to support access to arts and cultural activities for El Paso residents and visitors alike.
The City of El Paso will award cultural services contracts through the following funding programs:
- Operating Support Program (OSP): OSP is designed to support the organizational stability of El Paso's arts and cultural assets and to cultivate organizational growth and professional development. This category is open to organizations with a minimum of a three (3) year operating history and a 3 year history of funding support by the Museums and Cultural Affairs Department (MCAD).
- Project Support Program (PSP): PSP supports programs that provide high quality arts experiences that are innovative, accessible and appealing to local residents and visitors alike. Project support funds can be used for all project related expenses such as, administration, production costs, artistic fees, coordination (including staffing), audience development, outreach and marketing.
- Community Arts Program (CAP): Provides funding for non-profit arts and cultural organizations and individual artists to provide a variety of arts and cultural activities that have a focus on arts education and community arts development. The program will create a roster of arts and culture providers available to provide services throughout the city. It is designed to encourage creative interaction among artists, residents and neighborhoods, as well as to encourage collaboration between artists and community-based organizations/services. (Please Visit Arts & Education for more Info)
- Artist Incubator Program (AIP): This program promotes awareness of the contribution that El Paso artist make in our community. This program will provide funding directly to individual artists. Individuals funded through this program must provide a report at the conclusion of a program or event that includes attendance, location, an evaluation of the program, and financial statement.
- Capacity Building Program (CBP): Provides funding to develop and promote El Paso’s Arts and Culture Organizations that need technical assistance in the following areas: Strategic Planning, Business Plan, Board Development and Marketing. This grant will be awarded to two organizations, and these organizations can not reapply for this grant for a period of three years. In order to qualify for this opportunity the organization must have received Cultural Funding for two (2) of the previous five (5) funding cycles.
| FUNDING PROGRAM TIMELINE |
| FY 2009 - 2010 |
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| March 16, 2010 |
OSP Mid-Year Report and every month Matrix |
| August 31, 2010 |
OSP & PSP final reports are due.
ADEP & CAP recipients receive payments as services are completed and invoices and reports are submitted |
| FY 2010 - 2011 |
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March 3, 2010
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April 7, 2010
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Mandatory for ALL applicants - Attend one of the two sessions ONLY for the program for which you are applying
Application Assistance Workshops City Hall, 2 Civic Center Plaza, 7th Floor Conference Room - [click here for directions]
Operational Support Program & Capacity Building Program
AM Session - 9:00am
PM Session - 5:30pm
Project Support Program & Capacity Building Progarm
AM Session - 9:45am
PM Session - 6:15pm
Community Arts Program
AM Session - 10:30am
PM Session - 7:00pm
Artist Incubator Program
AM Session - 11:45am
PM Session - 7:45pm
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April 19, 2010 5:00pm
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All applications due no exceptions. Applications must be hand delivered or postmarked by the deadline date. OSP, PSP, CAP, AIP, CBP |
| June 7 - 11, 2010 |
Panel review for all funding programs OSP, PSP, CAP,AIP, CBP |
| August 2010 |
Panelist recommendations for all funding programs are forwarded to Cultural Affairs Advisory Board for review and recommendation |
| August 2010 |
City Council approves FY 2011 City Budget for MCAD |
| September 2010 |
Funding amount determination letters sent out to awardees |
| September 1, 2010 |
Contracts begin |
| March 18, 2011 |
Operational Support Program mid-year reports due (reports will not be accepted before March 1, 2011) |
| Every month Matrix |
Operational Support Program Matrix Report is due the 15 of each month |
| August 31, 2011 |
End of the Year report is due for Operational Support Program, Project Support Program, Artist Incubator Program and Capacity Building Program; Community Arts Program recipients receive payments as services are completed and invoices and reports are submitted |
APPLICATION DEADLINES
Applications must be received in the MCAD office by 5:00 p.m. or postmarked by midnight on the deadline date: April 19, 2010.
The Museums and Cultural Affairs Department (MCAD) will contract with each of the artists and organizations receiving funding under the operating support program, project support program and the community arts program to ensure that the City of El Paso achieves its public purpose of providing arts and culture to the El Paso community. The contracts will contain sufficient controls to assure that the public purpose sought to be accomplished will be met. Such controls are outlined for each program below:
 General Cultural Funding Program Guidelines FY2011
Cultural Funding Program Forms
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