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Colorado Council on the Arts Annual Report for Fiscal Years 2008 Colorado Council on the Arts Annual Report for Fiscal Years 2008 - 2010 Highlights of Accomplishments, Financial Summaries, and Grant Lists for the Period July 1, 2007 through June 30, 2010 Budget Progress and Challenges In fiscal year 2008 and 2009, the agency was still enjoying the benefits of the FY07 statute that fixed our annual appropriation at $1.5 million, with an annual adjustment for inflation. BY FY09 the appropriation was up to $1.6 million, a 700% increase from the agency’s FY04 appropriation of $200,000. Unfortunately, the recession that started in late 2008 was in full force by July 2009, and our FY10 state appropriation was cut 25% to $1.2 million. There was good news on the federal front, where our funding from the National Endowment for the Arts was increasing in small but steady increments, from $640,100 in FY08, to $733,900 in FY09 to $773,000 in FY10. In FY10 we also received a one-time infusion of $314,100 from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). New funding for public art fell over the three years. Grants to Artists and Organizations (GAO) From FY08 through FY10, our Grants to Artists and Organizations program provided financial support each year to approximately 120 individuals, arts organizations, community groups, and municipal and state agencies to ensure access to arts and cultural heritage activities in 42 Colorado counties. A key requirement of the program is that applicants must have matching funding support from local, regional or national sources, and our GAO awards leveraged a minimum of 14-to-1 in matching support. We also invested significant staff and consultant time to help artists and organizations located outside of metro Denver prepare competitive GAO applications. In January 2008, we traveled to nine communities and reached 200 people. In January 2009, as part of a statewide listening tour, staff traveled to 12 communities and met with 300 people. Small Step Awards With the move to the Office of Economic Development, we determined a need to provide developmental assistance, both financial and human, to non-arts entities that see arts and cultural heritage as a potential strategy for economic and community development. We launched the Small Step awards to provide small grants to support planning and development activities in communities that want to use the arts in pursuit of longer term goals such as downtown revitalization, improved health care, access to housing, justice system alternatives, or increased tourism. In FY08, FY09 and FY10 we awarded 180 Small Step awards in 52 counties. The idea that this is the first step towards achieving a longer-term goal seems to work – in a follow-up survey to FY08 and FY09 grantees, we found that over half of the recipients have built lasting relationships with other groups in their community, with less than 10% of responses expressing that they were no longer working with their partners. The concept of the award being a catalyst for further community activity has also been realized, as nearly 75% of our grantees in FY08 and FY09 asserted that their project generated further actions within their community. Arts Education Services for Teachers and Teaching Artists To extend our agency’s capacities to ensure schools and teaching artists have access to training, advocacy support and classroom resources, during FY2008 through FY2010, CCA maintained a contract with Think360 Arts, a nonprofit provider, and the Center for Integrated Arts Education at the University of Northern Colorado. In partnership, they deliver planning, coaching and training services to schools. They also convene the Statewide Arts Education Advisory Network, manage the statewide resource pool (roster) of arts education providers, and provide artist residencies statewide. They are also training arts education providers on Colorado’s new academic standards, and developing a coalition of providers to share training, marketing and best practices. From 2008 through 2010, 450 educators from 103 schools have attended aesthetic education and planning institutes, 78 teaching artists have been trained, and over 400 individuals have attended advocacy gatherings in four regions of the state. This partnership work has reached 27 communities in 14 counties to-date. Arts Education Stakeholder Convenings In October 2008 we released our study The Arts, Creative Learning & Student Achievement: Arts Education in Colorado Public Schools. Following the study release, we convened approximately 50 arts educators, arts organizations, parents, legislators and education administrators and asked them to recommend actionable steps that would increase access to arts education. We also presented the study findings to the State Board of Education and the Colorado Association of School Boards to solicit their responses. Education Leaders Institute In FY2008, Colorado was selected to participate in the second round of the NEA-funded Education Leaders Institutes. Our team was led by Lieutenant Governor Barbara O’Brien and included Education Commissioner Dwight Jones, one rural district superintendent, one large city district superintendent, one large city school board president and the director of our agency. Our team returned with a resolve to lead a movement to increase access to arts education in Colorado’s public schools and to better position the arts as a resource for teaching math, science, reading, writing and other subjects. Arts Education Summit CCA continued to partner with the Denver Office of Culture Affairs to hold an annual Arts Education Summit. The primary goal of the Summit is to help school-based teams develop an arts education vision and then mobilize to effectively promote arts education in their school and district. Attendance at each Summit ranged from 175 to 200, with between 21-30 schools sending complete teams comprised of parents, teachers, administrators and elected officials from schools and districts across Colorado. Attendees participated in experiential labs, received arts education resource guides and advocacy toolkits, and joined in facilitated discussions. To spur the creation of tangible action plans by participant teams, CCA provided 45 $500 Action Step planning grants to schools and districts that sent teams to the Summit. Success Through Art (StART) Grants Our agency’s newest program for schools is the Success Through Art (StART) Schools grants. Prior to launching the grant program in FY2009, we conducted focus groups of teachers and administrators. They told us that in order for an arts education program to be safe from budget cuts, it must be part of a larger plan for improving student achievement. They said they needed help in developing such a plan. They also said they need support over multiple years to successfully implement the plan. In response, we introduced our StART grants to schools and districts. A key requirement of StART grants is that schools work in partnership with local arts education providers. With staggered award years for planning and implementation, as of FY10 we had a cohort of 18 schools in 11 communities in various stages of planning and implementation. Eleven of the schools are in underserved areas outside the metropolitan region. 2 YouthReach Through YouthReach grants we supported community organizations that serve young people at-risk of not making a successful transition to adulthood. We launched this as a new program in 2005 to model the positive impact of public investment in the arts for Colorado’s youth. Grantees provided job skills training and development, internships, out-of-school time artist residencies, apprenticeships, youth-generated performances, and entrepreneurial ventures. Beneficiaries include youth of color, disabled youth and GLBT youth. Our annual youth evaluations have shown these programs to improve participants’ self-efficacy and sense of their future. During FY08 through FY10, we provided $599,000 to 15 grantees in six communities. Convening our YouthReach grantees to share successes, challenges, and new programming approaches has been a centerpiece of the program. Grantees were convened annually during FY08 through FY10, and topics included case studies of successful programs in other states, creating logic models, encouraging collaborative efforts, and raising visibility of the program. We are pleased that three of our YouthReach grantees have been recognized by Coming Up Taller. Capacity Building Support for Artists and Organizations The Peer Assistance Network has been our primary tool to deliver capacity-building assistance to for artists and art organizations. The Peer Assistance Network provides a way for arts organizations to help each other by exchanging advice between peers who manage similar programs and projects in other areas of the state. The PAN Advisors include over a dozen of Colorado's strongest arts managers who have also been trained in facilitation skills. During the three years we supported 121 PAN consultations in 32 counties. During FY08 and FY09 we worked with the Community Resource Center to offer capacity building scholarships and travel stipends to help artists and arts organizations attend courses that will further their professional skills and knowledge in managing an arts-based business, whether nonprofit or commercial. The travel stipends helped ensure that individuals in Colorado’s rural communities could benefit from professional courses which are often available only in Denver. During that time, CRC administered 27 scholarships totaling almost $4,000 to individuals
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