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Cultural Funding Programs
The City recognizes the importance of arts and culture in creating a vibrant and healthy community reflecting the character of the city and its citizens. These assets should be shared, experienced, nurtured and supported so that all of El Paso citizens have an opportunity to experience first rate arts and culture programs.
One of the primary roles of the Museums and Cultural Affairs Department of the City of El Paso is to Implement a Cultural Funding Program to assist in the development of El Paso's creative sector, its artists and cultural organizations, and to support access to arts and cultural activities for El Paso residents and visitors alike.
The City of El Paso will award cultural services contracts through the following funding programs:
- Operating Support Program (OSP): OSP is designed to support the organizational stability of El Paso's arts and cultural assets and to cultivate organizational growth and professional development. This category is open to organizations with a minimum of a three (3) year operating history and a 3 year history of funding support by the Museums and Cultural Affairs Department (MCAD).
- Project Support Program (PSP): PSP supports programs that provide high quality arts experiences that are innovative, accessible and appealing to local residents and visitors alike. Project support funds can be used for all project related expenses such as, administration, production costs, artistic fees, coordination (including staffing), audience development, outreach and marketing.
- Community Arts Program (CAP): Provides funding for non-profit arts and cultural organizations and individual artists to provide a variety of arts and cultural activities that have a focus on arts education and community arts development. The program will create a roster of arts and culture providers available to provide services throughout the city. It is designed to encourage creative interaction among artists, residents and neighborhoods, as well as to encourage collaboration between artists and community-based organizations/services. (Please Visit Arts & Education for more Info)
- Arts Development and Enrichment Program (ADEP): Provides management and technical assistance to artists and arts/cultural organizations to build artistic and administrative capacity through mentoring, workshops and consultations as well as funding individual and/or organizational programs and special initiatives that further the attainment of the overall goals of the MCAD.
| FUNDING PROGRAM TIMELINE |
| February 2008 |
FY 2009 Cultural Funding Programs Guidelines and Applications |
| March 2008 |
Application assistance workshops and application distribution
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| April 1, 2008 |
All applications due with the exception of the Arts Development & Enrichment Program (ADEP) |
| June 4,5,6, 2008 |
Panel review for all funding programs |
| August , 2008 |
Panelist recommendations for all funding programs are forwarded to Cultural Affairs
Advisory Board for review and recommendation |
| August 2008 |
City Council approves FY 2009 City Budget for MCAD |
| August 2008 |
Funding amount determination letters sent out to awardees |
| September 1, 2008 |
Contracts begin |
| March 16, 2009 |
Operational Support Program mid-year reports due (reports will not be accepted before March 1, 2009) |
| Every month Matrix |
Operational Support Program Matrix Report is due the 15 of each month |
| August 31, 2009 |
Final reports due for OSP, PSP, CAP. |
APPLICATION DEADLINES
Applications must be received in the MCAD office by 5:00 p.m. or postmarked by midnight on the deadline date.
| Operational Support Program(OSP) |
April 1,2008 |
| Project Support Program(PSP) |
April 1,2008 |
| Community Arts Program (CAP) |
April 1,2008 |
| Arts Development & Enrichment Program (ADEP) |
Varies/Ongoing |
 FY 2009 Cultural Funding Programs Guidelines and Applications
The Museums and Cultural Affairs Department (MCAD) will contract with each of the artists and organizations receiving funding under the operating support program, project support program and the community arts program to ensure that the City of El Paso achieves its public purpose of providing arts and culture to the El Paso community. The contracts will contain sufficient controls to assure that the public purpose sought to be accomplished will be met. Such controls are outlined for each program below:
Cultural Funding Program Forms
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