ORGANIZATION SUMMARY 307 DANCE ACADEMY WWW.307DANCEACDEMY.COM PROCESS MERGE FIELDS PROCESS: FISCAL YEAR 2022 COMMUNITY SUPPORT GRANT FISCAL YEAR 2022 COMMUNITY SUPPORT GRANT SHARED QUESTIONS 307 Dance Academy APPLICATION: APPLICATION - FISCAL YEAR 2022 COMMUNITY SUPPORT GRANT 307 Dance Academy We serve the Wyoming communities of Casper, Mills, Evansville, Glenrock, Bar Nunn, Midwest, & Douglas. Students from other Wyoming towns will travel at times to our various workshops held throughout the year. We invite nondominant communities to 307 Dance Academy by offering classes like our Firecrackers Adaptive Dance class and by providing need-based financial scholarships. The Firecrackers class is designated for students with special needs, including physical disabilities as well as developmental & learning disabilities. The age range for this class is 7-16 years old & is taught by a qualified teacher & assistant who have training & education in working with students with special needs. These students take weekly classes in which they receive technical training, proper vocabulary, & life skills. These students also perform in the community at various performances as well as perform during the year- end spring recital. 307 Dance Academy offers financial need based scholarships that cover monthly tuition for one class & a recital costume. We are proud to offer this opportunity for low-income families who would otherwise not be in a position to participate in the performing arts. 307 Dance Academy also strives to give back to our community by creating working relationships with other non-profit organizations including; Jason's Friends, Mimi's House, Boys & Girls Club, Dancer's Against Cancer, T-Bird Trek, & Casper Roll & Read. 307 Dance Academy measures it's outcome of our program & services provided by having a year-end evaluation completed by our parents & students. Each year we also strive to have faculty complete student evaluations to monitor the outcomes we have established for our students and programs. These outcomes vary depending on the class & ages of the students, however include the development of self, technique, thought process, commitment, & overall improvement in the specific class. We also monitor our progress by year end measurements of our programs & services by askina year-end evaluation completed by our staff. Returning enrollment, new enrollment, and completed yearly student enrollment are also indicator we use in evaluation of our services. We are requesting operating support for 307 Dance Academy. Our typical operating cost include payroll for our faculty to provide weekly instruction to our students, monthly rent, monthly utilities, various office supplies, classroom supplies, venue rental expenses for our yearly holiday and spring performances, performance costuming, advertising, insurance, and facility repairs and maintenance. The requested operating funds will be allocated towards our two biggest operating expenses of rent and payroll. In order to provide training to our students, as well as opportunities for performances, it is necessary to have adequate studio space and qualified faculty to teach and inspire the youth of our community. 307 Dance Academy constantly strives to provide opportunities for the youth of Casper and the surrounding communities by hosting workshops that provide a wide variety of highly qualified faculty with instruction in a variety dance forms. This summer we are thrilled to be offering a two-day master workshop. This workshop will provide opportunities to attend dance classes with professional artist who are working in the industry outside of Wyoming. Brining in these master classes gives an unique opportunity for our students to train with industry working professionals that they otherwise would not experience. The goal is for the workshop to take place at the 307 Dance Academy studio July 24-25, 2021. However, if there is a large interest and sign up for these workshops, we will need to look at renting a bigger venue site. This workshop involves several different style of classes for students ages 8-20 years old. This workshop will be open to all students in the Casper and surrounding communities. The goals of this arts learning opportunity include engaging students in the collaborative process. To strengthen student's creative skills in live performance through the study of craft and technique, to engage in critical studies and histories of dance, theater, and performance, and create unique and challenging training for live performances to share with our community. 307 Dance Academy's motto is "Inspire the Fire" and one goal of this includes exposing students in our community to outside working professionals, to inspire their desire to constantly learn new skills and techniques, and to share their craft and their love of the performing arts with others. This year we will bring in two master workshops featuring Saleemah Knight and McKena Silva. Saleemah Knight is currently on faculty at University of Southern California, Glorya Kaufman School of Dance in California, teaching jazz dance technique, theory courses in world studies, jazz dance history, and popular culture. Saleemah has extensive dance training and is internationally recognized as in interdisciplinary artist. Ms. Knight has a Master of Fine Arts in dance and some of her performance credits include; Disney's The Lion King on Broadway, Beyonce Live at the Billboard Music Awards, Chris Brown, ABC's Dancing with the Star's and many other internally recognized choreographers. Saleemah was recently an international guest master teacher and choreographer for St. Petersburg, Russia's DAR Jazz Festival and also a speaker for Rihanna's "Ladies Night" women's empowerment event and is a recurring guest instructor and choreographer at the prestigious Debbie Allen Dance Academy. The other faculty member that 307 Dance Academy will bring in for this workshop is McKena Silva. McKena is a proud native of Casper, Wyoming. McKena received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Musical Theatre with a minor in Dance from Millikin University. McKena is currently living and working in Chicago, Illinois and is on faculty for Dovetail Dance Studios and Tutu School Chicago. McKena has taught in dance schools across the nation including Illinois, Tennessee, Ohio, Wyoming, and Indiana. Some of McKena's credits include Gloria Thorpe in Dame Yankees, Urleen in Footloose, Smarty Marty in Beach Blanket Beagle, Sister Mary Lazarus in Sister Act, and Morgan Pierce in Chelsea Sunrise, a new musical from the minds of Canadian rock stars Murray Foster and Mike Ford; for which McKena was also the original choreographer. McKena is a nationally award-winning choreographer for her work in competitive dance, as well as her associate choreography for productions like Heathers and Nice Work if You Can Get It. McKena is the founder of "Red Velvet Reels", a choreography service for the non-dancer in the musical theatre world, and "Ballet & Butterflies" providing private and group in-home dance instruction. 307 Dance Academy budget narrative describes funding that support our mission and goals. We provide a salary for the Executive Director, Office Manager, Spirit Program Director, and faculty used to plan and implement weekly classes, workshops, and performance opportunities. This instruction takes place at our studio that also requires rent, utilities, professional fees, operational fees, repairs and maintenance fees. We receive funding that supports our organization by charging monthly tuition to our students as well as receiving income from workshop & intensive registration fees. Beyond tuition support, 307 is supported by grant funds, specifically the generosity of Wyoming Arts Council, and in the past, we have received funding from the Tonkin Foundation, and occasional private donations from community members. ORGANIZATION SUMMARY ACTION RESOURCES INTERNATIONAL WWW.ACTIONRESOURCES.NGO PROCESS MERGE FIELDS PROCESS: FISCAL YEAR 2022 COMMUNITY SUPPORT GRANT FISCAL YEAR 2022 COMMUNITY SUPPORT GRANT SHARED QUESTIONS The Art of Diversity in the Rural Rocky Mountains APPLICATION: APPLICATION - FISCAL YEAR 2022 COMMUNITY SUPPORT GRANT The Art of Diversity in the Rural Rocky Mountains The Higher Ground Fair is meant to attract, serve, provide platforms and opportunities for artistic expression, entertainment, and learning, for everyone. Its target audience, its very community, is the collective diversity of age and gender, race and ethnicity, background and experience of people who come from, live in, and/or identify with the facts and the myths of the Rocky Mountain region. The fair uses the vehicles of art and culture to weave together an appreciation of geographically and culturally-based tradition and innovation in an environment designed to attract diverse interests and foster unfettered inspiration. HGF reaches out to marginalized and underserved individuals and populations through multiple layers of participation and representation. Fair planning committees, advisory groups and staff (paid and volunteer) are made up of community-based, emerging, and established leaders with an array of first-person, experiential expertise. Participants at the fair, from performers to educators, also represent diversity of background, heritage and perspective – this serves as a clear statement that voice and visibility are valued for everyone. Special support is provided for vendors, presenters and fairgoers living with low income and poverty. Low booth fees enable small-scale