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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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"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
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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
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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,
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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)