Thank you for your interest in applying to ACTA's Traditional Arts Sustainability Grants. Before completing this first stage application, we strongly suggest that you:

* Compose and save your responses to the following questions in your own separate document (e.g. on Word, Text Edit, etc.), then copy and paste the answers in this form below. You cannot save nor return to edit your responses in this form.

* Check the word count to each of your responses (to questions #5 to #9) before you paste them into the form in order to ensure that your responses are complete, as each question has a word count limitation.

Please submit this application online by 9:00 pm Pacific Time on Wednesday, August 25, 2010. If you have difficulty accessing the application online, please contact 415.346.3800 or sherwood@actaonline.org.

For more information on this program, please visit us at:
http://actaonline.org/content/traditional-arts-sustainability-grants

Thank you again for your interest. We look forward to receiving your application!

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* 1. ORGANIZATION

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* 2. PERSON SUBMITTING APPLICATION

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* 3. ORGANIZATIONAL INCOME AND EXPENSES Please include the value of readily documentable donations in kind for expenses that have actual cost factors (materials/supplies, space, travel, etc.).

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* 4. If your organizational budget above (#3) exceeds $250,000/year, please estimate the approximate percentage of your current organizational budget (income and expense) which is linked to traditional arts and cultural programming.

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* 5. What is your organization’s track record and commitment for supporting and sustaining traditional arts practice within the communities you serve? What communities do you serve and how are they impacted by traditional arts practices? Also, how do the communities you serve currently provide support to the work of your organization? (No more than 700 words)

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* 6. How is your organization ready to engage in a work plan over the next three years that can result in annual renewable streams of income? In your response discuss how you engage your members/volunteers as well as the make up of your donor base including businesses, customers, members, etc. (No more than 400 words)

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* 7. How do you currently nurture new and emerging leadership in your organization and in the communities you serve? (No more than 200 words)

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* 8. What would your organization hope to gain from participating in a learning group with other organizations? (No more than 150 words)

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* 9. Any other comments you’d like to make? (No more than 100 words)

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* 10. ARTISTIC WORK SAMPLES

Send by e-mail (with attachment(s) and/or a link) to: sherwood@actaonline.org

All work samples should include within the e-mail the applicant’s name and description of what the samples represent, as well as when and where the sample(s) were created or performed

Artistic work samples play an important role in understanding your application. Send examples that best demonstrate the proposed artists’ skills and clearly show the details of the work. Choose samples that also best illuminate the traditionality of the artist and/or artist’s work. Approximately five minutes total of viewing or listening time will be allocated by the review panel to the artistic work samples that you submit.

Include what the relationship of the sample is to the project you are proposing. For example, “This artist will be featured in the proposed exhibit, concert, festival, etc.” or “This is an example of the cultural programming our organization does.”

If your documentation includes ensemble work or other individuals, please identify the key people. For example, “The proposed artist is wearing a red shirt and enters from stage left,” or “The second voice on the selection is that of the lead artist,” or “The quilt in the middle is an example of our collective’s work.”

ARTISTIC WORK SAMPLES INSTRUCTIONS

For craft and visual arts projects: E-mail up to 12 jpegs. Please include an index with a brief description of the work.

For music projects: Send via e-mail or as a link audio recordings. Provide a brief description of each selection along with its length and featured performers.

For dance projects: Send via e-mail as a link (to YouTube, Vimeo, etc.) a work sample with a brief description of each selection.

What type of work sample are you sending?

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* 11. OPTIONAL LETTERS OF SUPPORT:

You are invited to e-mail by PDF (scanned) up to three letters of support from the community or communities your organization serves, dated no later than August 25, 2010.

Please mail us original hard copies to: ACTA, The Presidio, PO Box 29096, San Francisco, CA 94129.

Please indicate here if you are submitting letters of support. How many letters of support will you be submitting?

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