A diverse panel pool ensures the integrity of our grant review process for all applicants, representative of our county’s racial, ethnic, and gender identities; eclectic geography; and wealth of organizations, perspectives, and knowledge.
Eligible applicants will be included in a panelist pool to be approved by the Arts Council of Mendocino County as a partner agency to the Administering Organization for the California Arts Council – in the months preceding the 2023-24 Upstate California Creative Corps grant activity period.
Specifically, panelists selected to serve the Upstate California Creative Corps will be reviewing Mendocino County’s applications. We will contact panelist applicants between January and March, 2023.
The Upstate California Creative Corps is a media, outreach, and engagement campaign designed to increase awareness around public health, water and energy conservation, climate mitigation, emergency preparedness, relief, and recovery, civic engagement and social justice. $3.38m will be re-granted to artists, and arts and social service organizations, as well as units of government, who will employ artists to this end.
Panelists must meet the following criteria:
*They must be able to assess the strengths and weaknesses of multiple applications based on our Upstate California Creative Corps published program goals and review criteria
*They must have the capacity to take part in three (3) mandatory virtual group meetings and 10-12 hours reviewing grants, taking notes, and attending meetings and orientations over a six-to-eight-week period. Each panelist receives a modest honorarium of $150. All reviews and meetings will take place remotely. More information about reviewing grants will be provided at the appropriate time.
*They must disclose any conflicts of interest and recuse themselves from reviewing applications for which they have a personal interest.
What's next?
We'll follow up with individual applicants as we begin putting panels together.
Questions?
More about Upstate California Creative Corps can be found at
upstatecreativecorps.org. Thank you so much for your interest in becoming a panelist.
