2011 Florida Local Arts Agency Survey
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PURPOSE: It's time to update the status and health of our local arts agencies (LAA) throughout Florida. The results of the last study may be found at www.falaa.net, but that data is four-years-old. The economic climate has and continues to impact our state's arts and cultural industry, including your LAA and its programs and services. The financial/budget information gathered from this survey will be reported as a collective, not by each LAA; so, please provide this information so we can really assess the financial status of Florida's LAAs.

DIRECTIONS: Most of the questions below can easily and quickly be answered by just checking the appropriate box(es) that apply to your LAA; however, you'll need to gather your local arts agency's financial information to complete the budget and grants-information sections.

I suggest you copy and paste the entire survey below into a document you can more easily review; conduct the necessary research needed to answer some of the questions; type your answers on that document; and then return to this online survey to complete it.

You can go back to previous questions in the survey and update existing responses until the survey is finished or until you exit the survey. Once you hit the "done" button, you will not be able to re-enter the survey.

RESULTS: The collective results will be shared with each of you and should be helpful to the continued development of your local arts agency and other Florida local arts agencies. The results of the last LAA survey may be found at www.falaa.net.

Thank you for your cooperation. If you have questions, please e-mail Sherron Long at info@falaa.net.

1. Please complete general information about your local arts agency:

2. Is your local arts agency (please check all that apply to your LAA):

3. Does your local arts agency work with the governance of (please check all that apply):

4. If applicable, what is the total number of people who serve on your independent local arts agency board?

5. If your local arts agency is governed by an independent board of directors/trustees, please complete in the boxes provided next to each category the number that currently serves in that category:

6. How often does your board meet?

7. Please check the committees below applicable to your local arts agency (note you might have different names for your committees, but if they focus on the similar topics, please check them):

8. How long do your independent LAA board members serve?

9. Please check all that apply to your independent LAA board:

10. Are your board members required to annually make a personal contribution to support the operations of your local arts agency?

11. If you answered yes to question 10, please indicate the exact amount or range of contributions required of each of your board members annually to your local arts agency operations:

12. Are your board members required to help raise a specific amount/s of funds annually for your local arts agency operations?

13. If you answered yes to question 12, please indicate the exact amount or range of what is expected of each board member to raise for your local arts agency operations on an annual basis:

14. Please complete the information below concerning your local arts agency staff:

15. Has your local arts agency established a retirement savings plan for its staff?

16. If your local arts agency does have a retirement plan for your staff, briefly describe how it works and how much the LAA contributes per employee.

17. Who is responsible for hiring your local arts agency staff? Check all that apply.

18. Does your local arts agency have written job descriptions for staff members? If yes, please share them by sending them to info@falaa.net.

19. Check all boxes that apply to your LAA's volunteer program:

20. Approximately, how many volunteers does your local arts agency engage in its annual operations?

21. Below, please check all services and programs your local arts agency initiates, coordinates, or provides:

 Provide NowPlan to Provide in the FutureDon't provide now
Printed Calendar of Arts/Cultural Events
Online Calendar of Arts/Cultural Events
Arts/Cultural Phone Line Listing Events to Callers
Printed Newsletter
E-mail Newsletter
Online Newsletter
Printed Magazine
Online Magazine
Printed Directory of Arts/Cultural Organizations
Online Directory of Arts/Cultural Organizations
Printed Directory of Local Artists
Online Directory of Local Artists
Other printed publications
Other online publications
Web site
Facebook
Twitter
MySpace
Other Social Networking Site
Targeted E-mail updates
In-school arts education programs
Out-of-school arts education programs
Manage and operate a cultural facility
Art-in-Public Places Program
Arts for a Complete Education (ACE) Coalition
Arts & Cultural Economic Impact Studies
Workshops for arts/cultural professionals
Regular meetings of arts/cultural organizations
Workshops for artists
Maintain and promote cultural job opportunities
Manage a grant program for local arts organizations
Manage a grant program for local artists
Manage an awards program
Develop and manage arts/cultural program series
Develop and manage arts classes/workshops
Develop and manage an arts/cultural festival
Develop cultural facilities
Develop, maintain, and update long-range LAA plan
Coordinate community arts / cultural plan
Provide office/work space
Provide performance space/s
Provide artists-in-residency programs in schools
Provide artists-in-residency programs in community
Marketing services
Coordinate art exhibitions
Provide technical assistance

22. Who maintains your LAA Web site?

23. If a paid outside firm or person maintains your Web site, how much does your LAA pay on an annual basis to maintain your LAA Web site?

24. How often is your Web site updated?

 
Review options under the drop-down menu, and select one:

25. What is your local arts agency's fiscal year -- what month does it start and end?

26. What was your local arts agency's fiscal year 2010 FINAL INCOME just for your LAA general operations (do not include income for re-granting purposes)?

27. What were your local arts agency's CASH INCOME for specific FY 2010 line items for your general LAA operations? Please do not include re-granting dollars or in-kind services (those answers are reflected elsewhere in survey). If your local arts agency is an all-volunteer organization, please type 0 next to the line items that do not apply. Please round off your numbers; do not use cents. Total should equal what you answered in question 26 above.

28. What was your local arts agency's Fiscal Year 2010 FINAL EXPENSES for general LAA operations (do not include re-granting dollars)?

29. What were your local arts agency's actual CASH EXPENSES for FY 2010? These are expenses related to your local arts agency's general operations. Do not include re-granting dollars (you answer those questions elsewhere). Round off your numbers; do not include cents. Inkind expenses will be answered in another question below. Please note this information will be reported as a collective and in categories, not by each LAA agency. If your local arts agency is an all-volunteer organization, please type 0 next to the line items that do not apply. The total amount should equal what you listed in question 28 above.

30. Does your local arts agency track its in-kind contributions?

31. If you answered yes to tracking your in-kind contributions, what were your local arts agency's final IN-KIND contributions for FY 2010? These are contributed services or items your LAA did not pay for. Please briefly list the specific in-kind service or item(s) and the monetary value of that contribution below. Please round off your numbers; do not use cents.

32. Does your local arts agency administer an annual grants program for your area's arts and cultural organizations (this question does not include grants to artists)?

33. If your local arts agency does administer a grants program for your area's arts and cultural organizations, please check the source/s of revenue for re-granting purposes below just for arts/cultural organizations, not artists. Please check all that apply:

34. What was the total amount your local arts agency re-granted just to your area's local arts/cultural organizations in the following Fiscal Years -- this does not include grants to artists in those years?

35. Please indicate the amount/s of revenue your local arts agency received to re-grant to your area arts/cultural organizations (not artists) from the following income sources for FY 2010:

36. Does your local arts agency administer an annual grants program for your area's individual artists?

37. If your local arts agency does administer a grants program for your area's individual artists, please check the source/s of revenue for re-granting purposes below just for re-granting to individual artists. Please check all that apply:

38. What was the total grant amount your LAA awarded to individual artists in FY 2010?

39. Please indicate the amount/s from the following categories for your grants program for individual artists in FY 2010.

40. Please answer the questions below that are applicable to your local arts agency's grants program/s based on FY 2010 data:

41. If applicable to your local arts agency, please answer the questions below regarding governmental support for both your general LAA operations and your re-granting program/s from Fiscal Year 2009 to Fiscal Year 2010:

 No cutsMinor cutsSubstantial cutsEliminatedNot applicable
Cut in city government support for general LAA operations
Cut in city government support for LAA re-granting program/s
Cut in county government support for general LAA operations
Cut in county government support for LAA re-granting program/s
Cut in state Division of Cultural Affairs (DCA)grant
Cut in other state support(not from DCA)for LAA
Cut in federal National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) LAA support
Cut in other federal (other than NEA) LAA support

42. For those of you who do get funds from government sources for your general operations and programs/services, please complete the information below for your last four fiscal years -- this does not include re-granting funds, only funds for your LAA operations, services, and programs:

43. If your local arts agency administers a re-granting program for either arts/cultural organizations and/or individual artists, please complete the following information from Fiscal Year 2007 through Fiscal Year 2010:

44. Does your local arts agency receive and administer your county's Florida Arts License Plate revenue?

45. If your local arts agency does receive and administer your county's Florida Arts License Plate revenue, briefly describe below how these funds are used:

46. Please check the income-producing membership categories applicable to your local arts agency:

47. What were the total numbers (not money) of LAA memberships your LAA recruited under each of your LAA membership categories in FY 2010?

48. What income amounts were generated in FY 2010 under your LAA membership categories? Complete all that are applicable to your LAA below:

49. Does your local arts agency work with other local arts agencies regionally? If so, please briefly describe below.

50. Given the economic challenges we all face these days, have any of your local arts/cultural organizations closed their operations in the last three years? If so, please list those organizations that no longer provide arts/cultural events and activities in your geographic area.

51. How many arts/cultural jobs do you believe have been lost in your geographic area over the last three years?

52. Please list other things not included in this Florida Local Arts Agency Survey you believe would be useful to your other LAA colleagues. Thank you so much for taking the time to complete this survey.