HomeMy WebLinkAboutGrant Request - Heritage TheatreFor: 10/26 Economic Development Fund Discretionary Grant Program Organization: Heritage Theatre Company Organization Description: This organization works has produced 15 theatre productions and offers various programs to the community. Some of these programs include the Arts - at -the -Heart History Program (350 youth performers have participated) and acting workshops for 300 intergenerational students. This organization has also partnered with other organizations, such as featuring a different social service organization at each of 10 sellout performances of "Nickel & Dimed," coordinated with St. Charles Medical Center to raise $2,000 for Sara Fisher Breast Health Foundation for sellout performance of "The Waiting Room," and partnered with the Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show on the musical "Quilters" to raised $2,750 for the Sisters Family Action Network. Project Name: Community Arts and Meals Project Description: In conjunction with Bend's Community Center (BCC), the Community Arts & Meals program offers visual, fabric and theatre arts classes for families, adults, teens and children experiencing homelessness and poverty in coordination with the service of meals. This program will take place at the BCC facility. Art exhibits, sales and performances by members of these classes will help educate the community regarding low cost housing issues, as well as generate income for the students and the program. Project Period: January 18, 2010 to May 15, 2010 Amount of Request: $1,500 (Budgeted expenses = $18,379 cash, $8,760 in-kind) Previous Grants: None Deschutes County Board of Commissioners 1300 NW Wall St., Bend, OR 97701-1960 (541) 388-6570 - Fax (541) 385-3202 - www.deschutes.org DESCHUTES COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FUND DISCRETIONARY GRANT PROGRAM APPLICATION Direct Application to: Commissioner Tammy Baney Commissioner Dennis R. Luke Date: Project Name: Project Beginning Date: Amount of Request: Applicant/Organization: Address: Commissioner Alan Unger All Three Commissioners C_.0 Nen vsiNt.41/4.ni Ntis 61 rte o'ZO l0 5— 0 0 Project End Date: Date Funds Needed: Tax ID Ai - City & Zip: Telephone: Email: ��w+1Pvre Co 2o R s1 se 'k)es't- V, tx,J �v Contact Name(s): Fax: - - Alternate Phone: 051 15- 0 l C) \icy , et +o 59l - ado —G Tc . d.\oe+fibrural �rct , c.axwl On a separate sheet, please briefly answer the following questions: 1. Describe the applicant organization, including its purpose, leadership structure, and activities. 2. Describe the proposed project or activity. 3. Provide a timeline for completing the proposed project or activity. 4. Explain how the proposed project or activity will impact the community's economic health. 5. Identify the specific communities or groups that will benefit. 6. Itemize anticipated expenditures*. Describe how grant funds will be used and include the source and amounts of matching funds or in-kind contributions, if any. If the grant will support an ongoing activity, explain how it will be funded in the future. Attach: Proof of the applicant organization's non-profit status. * Applicant may be contacted during the review process and asked to provide a complete line item budget. Tammy Baney: Amount: Signature: Dennis Luke: Amount: Signature: Alan Unger: Amount: Signature: Community Arts & Meals Heritage Theatre Company October 12, 2009 Bend's Community Center 1 Describe the applicant organization, including its purpose, leadership structure, and activities. Mission: Heritage Theatre Company (HTC) exists to engage the Central Oregon community in a shared pursuit of understanding and celebrating humanity through the ages; and, to serve as a catalyst for community participation in building a better world today. Structure & Leadership: HTC has three board members representing expertise in education, marketing, and accounting. The founder and executive director, Janet Kingsley, has extensive experience in arts administration and teaching. She served as program chair on the executive committee of the founding board of directors for the Tower Theatre and was hired as the development assistant for their $4.4M capital campaign. She has written winning grants for several local organizations and, in addition to her work with HTC, has developed performing arts education programs for the Off-Broadway Apple Corps Theatre in NYC and a public magnet school for the gifted and talented in Elizabeth, NJ. She is completing her final course toward a master degree in arts administration through Goucher College, MD. Janet is a licensed Oregon music teacher with theatre training in NYC who has been a teacher and director of music and drama for most of her life. Janet will serve as the Arts Program Director for the "Community Arts & Meals" project. Activities: HTC has produced 15 theatre productions; has developed outreach performances with 350 youth performers reaching audiences over 3,000 through its Arts- at -the - Heart History program; and has had 300 intergenerational students in its acting workshops. HTC has been able to extend its program reach, audience and financial capacity through partnerships with other organizations including featuring a different social service organization with each of the ten sell-out performances of "Nickel & Dimed;" coordination with St. Charles Medical Center for sell-out performances of "The Waiting Room" raising $2,000 for Sara Fisher Breast Health Foundation; and, increased marketing and history education reach through a partnership with Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show for the musical "Quilters" raising $2,750 for Sisters FAN. Partner Organization: I -ITC's fiscal capacity for fundraising and providing the social service component of "Community Arts & Meals" is greatly increased through a partnership with Bend's Community Center (BCC). BCC has contacts in the community which have garnered $170,326 in support since September 2008. BCC is both an events rental facility and a social service provider that runs the largest food kitchen in Central Oregon, offers employment- related training to youth and adults, and provides basic goods and services to at -risk, low-income residents. BCC's multi -roomed facility enables a rotating schedule of arts activities and meals for several groups simultaneously. BCC's Executive Director Taffy Gleason, 2009 recipient of the Citizen of the Year award from the Bend Chamber of Commerce, will be responsible for the social services arm of the program. The BCC board president, Bend's past city councilor and mayor, Bruce Abernethy, has provided board leadership for Bend's community issues since 1995 and has worked as project or program director for Habitat for Humanity, Bend Community Action Team, Central Oregon Intergovernmental Council and the Commission on Children and Families. He is the director of Grants & Resource Development for Bend La Pine Schools. 2. Describe the proposed project or activity. Community Arts & Meals a program of visual, fabric and theatre arts classes for families, adults, teens and children experiencing homelessness and poverty that will interface with meals. The program will take place on weekdays and Sundays at BCC's multi -room facility that has already established a Sunday meal serving 200 and will supply additional meals for after-school classes. This initial program of a long range plan will be implemented over a 15 week period starting in January 2010. Culminating art exhibits, sales and performances will raise public Deschutes County Economic Development Fund Application 1 Community Arts & Meals Heritage Theatre Company October 12, 2009 Bend's Community Center compassion and action toward low cost housing and will generate income for students and the program. The program is based on the best practices of 14 models across the country including: P: ear in Portland, a recreation and arts program for unaccompanied youth ages 15 — 24; Art from the Streets in Austin, an income -generating visual arts & food program for adults; The ACE program of the Broward County School System in Florida, and Destiny Theatre Productions in Philadelphia whose teens garnered $12,000 in scholarships from Broadway Dreams. For elementary age children, models range from Drawbridge in seven counties of California to Heart to Heart Art in Spokane. 3. Timeline: Community Arts & Meals: initial fifteen week session • September — December fundraising ❑ community building (schools, existing model programs, social service orgs. artist/teachers) • November — December CI contracts to teachers ❑ student enrollment through contact with Family Access Network, school principles, shelters, Neighbor Impact and numerous other social service organizations, low-income apartment complexes, Bend's Community Center ❑ Mailing and December 4 fundraising event at BCC • January 18 : first week of classes in a 15 week session • Week of May 10 I I Arts Exhibits & Sales I:] Craft Sale 11 Performances at BCC and in Public Spaces 4. Explain how the proposed project or activity will impact the community's economic health. I-Iomelessness encompasses a broad range of social, economic, political and educational concerns. People experience homelessness due to family violence, a family death, an uninsured crisis illness, an uninsured prolonged illness, substance abuse, teen pregnancy, school failure, mental illness, release from incarceration, release or run away from foster care, low job skills, and/or a limited education compounded by the current recession. The common effects among this highly individualized population are hunger, poverty, isolation, high stress and low self- esteem. Through participation in a sustained arts program, people who are experiencing homelessness can gain a sense of self: self -value, self-confidence and self-efficacy. Common feelings of isolation can be addressed through the sense of belonging to a specific, welcoming space and through the social nature of arts processes and sharing a meal. Youth: The program is an investment in the futures of the children and teens who have the ]east opportunities. Over the past ten years, an extensive number of arts education studies have verified that "arts -rich" students outperform "arts -poor" students in virtually every measure of student achievement (attendance, academics & cognitive) and attitude (self esteem and life skills) and that arts are particularly beneficial to at -risk children and teens. A comparison study of out-of-school programs further determined that the inherent roles, risks and rules of art - making are the reason that arts programs are the most effective out-of-school programs compared to civic, academic and sports. During the same time period, sociologists have determined that children and youth in crisis maintain their resiliency through a variety of protective factors that include strong role models, the development of students' pro -social and communication skills, sense of achievement and recognition of achievement, hope, high Deschutes County Economic Development Fund Application 2 Community Arts & Meals Heritage Theatre Company October 12, 2009 Bend's Community Center expectations, discovery of special areas of interest and talent, and parental interest in their work. Community Arts & Meals will be working from the assumption that the arts enable ALL of these protective factors. Children and teens love to do arts because the arts involve the body, heart and mind. We fully expect that students will: 1) develop trusting relationships with teachers and staff and each other; 2) achieve a high level of age appropriate arts skills and will experience joyful, meaningful and reflective art -making toward the development of their interests and talents; 3) experience a world of various cultures through arts; 4) participate at a higher academic and behavior level during their school day due to a kindled self -value and renewal of hope; 5) gain increased communication skills through the improvisatory and problem -solving work of drama and the storytelling capacity of visual arts; and, 6) develop life skills of dependability, self- confidence, sociability, self-management and task completion through arts processes and the rules, roles & risks of working toward the culminating art exhibits and performances. Adults: Testimonies of pro -social, life -skill, life -changing, income -making and artistic outcomes are abundant from existing arts programs for homeless adults. Outcomes for adults include 1) an increased sense of belonging in a nurturing space devoted to exploration of creative processes, 2) development of arts skills for self-expression and personal meaning; 3) development of arts skills transferable to the job market (construction, painting, fabric crafts, computer marketing skills) 4) practice in and increased life skills (dependability, self-confidence, task completion, positive social interaction, communication skills); 5) empowerment through participation in advocacy for housing and education about poverty; 6) income generated from the sale of arts and crafts products and revenue from theatre performances. The Bend community -at -large will gain an increased awareness of the causes and effects of poverty and homelessness through the program's public presentations, press, fundraising events and its coordination with other community non -profits. Through awareness, the community will increase both compassion and action toward increased low-cost housing. 5. Identify the specific communities or groups that will benefit. The Situation: Applying the McKinney-Vento definition of a homeless child to the intergenerational population, the Homeless Leadership Coalition of Central Oregon has determined through a one night survey that there were 2,237 homeless persons in Central Oregon in January 2009. (HUD statistics include only shelter and street population. Since rural communities across the country do not have many shelters, a large portion rural homeless are "doubled -up" with other families. The McKinney-Vento definition includes those who are "doubled -up.) Approximately 80% of the homeless in Deschutes County are families. 79% of the families have an adult who is working. The most recent survey by the OR Dept. of Ed. identified 709 homeless students in the Bend La Pine schools during 2008-09. According to local press, there has been a simultaneous growth in hate crimes upon the homeless. Targeted Participants: The target participants are the 200 low-income and transient single adults and families who are already in the habit of attending Bend's Community Center for the Sunday meal and the low-income students and homeless students of neighborhood schools. Teen classes are scheduled for Monday after school increasing access to nearby students: Marshall Alternative High School is diagonally across the street; Bend Senior HS is six blocks away. The classes for elementary students will be held on Wednesday afternoons, the public schools' early release day. The Wednesday program time was suggested by the Homeless Liaison of Bend La Pine Schools as being much needed by work -seeking and working parents. Juniper Elementary School has a bus stop within a block of BCC. HTC staff will meet the Juniper students at the bus stop. Students from schools without bus access will also be invited. Deschutes County Economic Development Fund Application 3 Community Arts & Meals Heritage Theatre Company October 12, 2009 Bend's Community Center Families & drivers will be invited to join students after the Monday and Wednesday classes for supper. We anticipate full capacity of 30 elementary students on Wednesdays for rotating theatre & visual arts. Based on early survey results, we expect participation from at least 50 adults and 30 teens in the visual arts, fabric arts and theatre classes; and, 20 family members weekly for 6 sessions of Sunday Stories with Arts for families with young children. 6. Budget: Deschutes County funds will be used to support arts costs of the program. Budget Category Description or Source Cash In Kind EXPENSES Arts Program Director 20 hrs. x 15 wks. x $15 2, 000 2, 500 Contracted Artist/Teachers 6 artist/teachers for 10 wkly. classes x 15 wks. 6, 560 Space rental Bend's Community Center @ half rate 3, 660 Marketing Ads, flyers, printed program, tickets, postage 900 970 Insurance Gales Creek 750 Art &office supplies @ $2 per class for visual & fabric arts + $300 total for theatre arts + $109 office 1 609 1 740 Food costs Staff, space, food, food supplies 2, 900 3, 550 TOTAL EXPENSES $18, 379 $8, 760 Projected REVENUE Sales Spring performances, exhibits, commission & visual art & craft sales for arts costs 575 Contracted Services (art program director's hours @ 11+ donated hrs. per wk x $15 x 15 wks) 2,500 Business Support BCC & HTC affiliates for ads, printing, arts supplies for arts costs 1, 500 2,210 BCC & HTC affiliates for food costs 500 2,500 Government Support OAC: Arts Build Communities for arts costs 3, 500 Deschutes County Economic Development for arts costs 1, 500 OCH: Opportunity grant for arts costs 1, 000 Private Support Net for donor mailing for arts costs 3, 435 Net for December event for arts costs 3, 469 Art supplies from artists and guilds 500 Food & custodial staff @ 105 hrs. x $10 1,050 Bend Community Found. Food & arts costs 1, 500 Samuel Johnson Found. Food costs 1, 400 TOTAL REVENUE $18, 379 $8, 760 All cash income is projected. The OAC grant was submitted on 10/2. The OCH grant was submitted 10/14. The fundraising event and mailing are in progress. Most of the in-kind is secured. HTC and BCC trustees are confident of reaching revenue goals. "Community Arts & Meals" will continue annually with two 15 week school year sessions and one shorter summer session. The program will depend on support from individuals, community, state, federal, private foundations and fundraising events with a small amount of income generated from the sale of student art reproduced on T-shirts and calendars and from a small commission from the sale of the teen & adult art and performance revenue. Deschutes County Economic Development Fund Application 4 Community Arts & Meals Heritage Theatre Company October 12, 2009 Bend's Community Center Arts Classes and Meal Schedule for "Community Arts & Meals" January 18 — May 14 Community Arts & Meals Schedule at BCC Dining Area Room A Room B Room C l pm — 2:30 S L,,4 J Meal Meal Meal 2:30 — 4:30 Meal Meal Meal 4:30 — 6:30pm i, Meal Family "Sunday Story" arts Meal Visual Arts: Adults & Teens 6:30 — 8:30 „ Drama: Adults Monday after- school: 3:30 — 5:30 Drama or Dance — Teens Visual Arts - Teens Fabric Arts — Adults 5:30 — 6:30 Meal for Teens & Fabric Arts students Wednesdays: early release (bus arrives at 4111& Kearny at 2:40) 3pm — 4:30 Drama (and snack) ages 5 - 7 Visual Arts (and snack) ages 8 - 10 4:30 — 6pm Drama: ages 8-10 Visual Arts: ages 5 -7 6pm — 7pm Meal for students and their families Deschutes County Economic Development Fund Application 5 "Building a strong community by providing space for special events and a resource for basic needs, job training and volunteer opportunities" BCC is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization Taffy Gleason, Director ph: 541-31z-2069 fax: 541-312-2084 1036 NE 5th Street Bend, OR 97701 em: info@bendscommunitycenter.org web: www.bendscommunitycenter.org October 14, 2009 Dear Commissioner Baney, I have been working with the homeless and the needy in Central Oregon for seven years. To date Bend's Community Center has been focused on providing basic necessities, food, clothing, job training, outdoor survival gear and other amenities that help the low-income to achieve a higher standard of healthy living. Over the years, I've also seen a hunger and a need I wasn't able to fill — helping the homeless and low-income express their emotions through various art forms. Many of our "regulars" bring in rough pieces of art as a thank you for helping them; others come in with songs or poems, examples of hand crafted jewelry, wood carvings, etc. The need to create, to have a voice, to express their inner selves is, I believe a stronger drive in this group of people than in people who have a higher standard of living and access to the various forms of personal expression. It has been a goal for several years to create a local version of the successful Art in the Streets program out of Texas. That program provides free art supplies to the homeless and hosts an annual art how where all the proceeds of the art sales go directly to the homeless. 1 am excited to now be embarking on that path with the assistance of Janet Kingsley, Executive Director for the Heritage Theatre Company, a local nonprofit with a strong background in art classes and theatre. BCC and Heritage Theatre Company have created a program called Community Arts & Meals, designed to provide art classes and shows, theatre productions, concerts and other art forms, for and by the homeless and low-income of Central Oregon. Our intent is to feed their souls as well as their bellies, to provide a nurturing atmosphere for kids, teens and adults, who want to find their voice through various art forms. We believe that by fostering the talents of our local low-income, they will also create a deeper sense of self worth, pride and ultimately an outlet by which they can educate our community about their lives, hopes, needs, dreams and challenges through art. Janet and I are very excited to be offering this to our community of low-income and homeless people. We look forward to providing this important outlet to help them fulfill more of their needs as well as their dreams. Sincerely Taff leason, Executive Director Bend's Community Center 8,i. i883 B E N D AL LAPINE Schools EDUCATING IiiRI ING CITIZENS To Whom it may concern, TEACHING AND LEARNING SUPPORT CENTER Education Center 520 NW Wall Street Bend, Oregon 97701-2699 September 30, 2009 On behalf of the eleven Family Access Network (FAN) Advocates in Bend, I would like to endorse the Arts Build Communities application from Heritage Theatre Company and Bend's Community Center to create a Neighborhood Arts & Meals program. The Family Access Network is a unique collaboration between local schools and many community agencies and organizations. Our tag line is "Helping with the other kind of Homework" and our school-based Advocates help to identify homeless and low-income students who may face "barriers" at home that make it difficult to be successful at school (i.e. lack of housing, clothing, food, etc.) The FAN Advocates are knowledgeable about community resources and provide important connections and referrals for the students (and their families). We believe the Neighborhood Arts & Meals program will be a wonderful addition to the list of activities that our homeless and at -risk students can do with peers and/or with their family. Bend's Community Center is centrally located to many of our high - poverty schools (e.g. Juniper Elementary, Pilot Butte Middle School and Bend High School). The variety of classes - performing and visual arts, painting, craft making, drama improvisation, dance and song, etc. - will literally provide something for everyone. Healthy meals will be served at many of the activities. The classes will culminate in a public art exhibit, a crafts market and/or a performance in the spring which will provide an important chance for public recognition. We are constantly looking for innovative programs that are able to provide high quality instruction and programming to our most students. The Neighborhood Arts & Meals program is such an offering and we hope you will look favorably upon their request. Please feel free to contact me at 322-5492 if you have any questions about FAN. Sincerely, ri 6,1 -Th\/' Dana Arntson Bend -La Pine FAN Coordinator Internal Revenue Service Date: October 29, 2007 HERITAGE THEATRE COMPANY % JANET STEIN 20851 W VIEW DR BEND OR 97702-2843 512 Dear Sir or Madam: Department of the Treasury P. O. Box 2508 Cincinnati, OH 45201 Person to Contact: R Clemons ID# 17-57072 Customer Service Representative Toll Free Telephone Number: 877-829-5500 Federal Identification Number: 93-1246299 This is in response to your request of October 29, 2007, regarding your organization's tax- exempt status. In March 2000 we issued a determination letter that recognized your organization as exempt from federal income tax. Our records indicate that your organization is currently exempt under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Our records indicate that your organization is also classified as a public charity under section 509(a)(2) of the Internal Revenue Code. Our records indicate that contributions to your organization are deductible under section 170 of the Code, and that you are qualified to receive tax deductible bequests, devises, transfers or gifts under section 2055, 2106 or 2522 of the Internal Revenue Code. If you have any questions, please call us at the telephone number shown in the heading of this letter. Sincerely, ith& 7uks4-) Michele M. Sullivan, Oper. Mgr. Accounts Management Operations 1 INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE P. 0. BOX 2508 CINCINNATI, OH 45201 APR 2 8 2008 Date: BENDS COMMUNITY CENTER 1036 NE FIFTH ST BEND, OR 97701-0000 Dear Applicant: DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY Employer Identification Number: 93-1269614 DLN: 17053089811048 Contact Person: SHAWNDEA KREBS ID# 31072 Contact Telephone Number: (877) 829-5500 Public Charity Status: 509(a) (2) Our letter dated April 2004, stated you would be exempt from Federal income tax under section 501(c) (3) of the Internal Revenue Code, and you would be treated as a public charity, rather than as a private foundation, during an advance ruling period. Based on the information you submitted, you are classified as a public charity under the Code section listed in the heading of this letter. Since your exempt status was not under consideration, you continue to be classified as an organization exempt from Federal income tax under section 501(c)(3) of the Code. Publication 557, Tax -Exempt Status for Your Organization, provides detailed information about your rights and responsibilities as an exempt organization. You may request a copy by calling the toll-free number for forms, (800) 829-3676. Information is also available on our Internet Web Site at www.irs.gov. If you have general questions about exempt organizations, please call our toll-free number shown in the heading. Please keep this letter in your permanent records. Sincerely yours, rt Robert Choi Director, Exempt Organizations Rulings and Agreements Letter 1050 (DO/CG)