Running head: A GRANT PROPOSAL for the NEA

Grant Proposal for the NEA

C. Gallagher

July 29, 2011

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Table of Contents

The Executive Summary ................................................................................................................. 3

Cover Letter .................................................................................................................................... 4

Introduction ..................................................................................................................................... 5

1. Description of the Organization ............................................................................................................ 5

2. Unmet Need, Including Pertinent Facts................................................................................................. 5

3. Proposal: Approaching a Solution ......................................................................................................... 6

4. Established Goal .................................................................................................................................... 6

5. Appropriately Established Measurable Objectives ............................................................................... 7

The Budget ...................................................................................................................................... 8

Human Resource Requirements .................................................................................................... 13

Technology (IT) Requirements ..................................................................................................... 14

Implementation Activities; Operations Requirements .................................................................. 16

Considering the NEA; Addressing Potential Challenges ............................................................. 19

Issues ....................................................................................................................................................... 22

The Intelligence in Grant Identity ........................................................................................................... 23

References ..................................................................................................................................... 24

Honor Statement ........................................................................................................................... 27

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The Executive Summary

The Bay Area Alternative Press (BAAP) has been supported by award-winning artists,

writers, influential professors, businesses such as Toyota, Toshiba, Starbucks, and influential

educators from all areas of academia; therefore, BAAP has thrived for 31 years through private

corporations and individuals. However, it has yet to seek direct support for its multidisciplinary

activities and products through reputable governmental sources. As an independent federal

agency, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) offers a Grant entitled Artist Community—

Art Projects that will enable BAAP to continue production during the public funding crisis that

has cut billions of federal and state dollars from state universities and public schools. This

Proposal seeks the NEA Grant, which provides a solution that will unite BAAP and its

communities through innovative interest and activities to achieve a new worthy art project that

will revitalize all integrated sectors of BAAP’s operations, even from national fiscal levels.

The NEA Grant will serve to fulfill BAAP’s unmet need that involves the security of its

stakeholders and neighborhoods in respect to collaboration and the influences of media, video

games, and internet content on our developing populace. Support by the NEA independent

federal agency is critical to BAAP's viability because the Grant will benefit its outreach

programs through its provision of Federal Domestic Assistance, employment options, and

technical upgrades. The organization cannot maintain its Mission until it establishes this essential

supportive venue. Until it completes and submits its NEA Application, BAAP's “legacy of

success” is compromised as its artists strive to cover issues that BAAP stakeholders realize are a

result of private interest groups, for example--federal support is essential to its Mission to cover

newsworthy issues with excellent artwork. Therefore, everyone should support this Proposal

today.

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Cover Letter

Dear Members of BAAP and colleagues:

As an Artist Community that extends an innovative spectrum of artistic disciplines and

related literature to disadvantaged and highly educated communities, this organization needs and

deserves the support of the National Endowment for the Arts Artist Community Grant for Art

Projects. Our excellent artwork and literature shall flourish in respect to the increasing audiences

that the Grant will serve to reach, and because our monumental work encourages critical thinking

and educational endeavors, it will improve the dynamic infrastructures of our immediate and

global societies. Simultaneously, the Grant will improve educational conditions and

opportunities through the meaningful relationships that our members cultivate through their

monumental well-planned work. Although we need more than we are requesting to sustain our

Mission, the $100,000 that the NEA will provide our new Art Project and Art Works will

preserve the educational direction that we provide throughout our communities. When will all of

our members meet to unite toward this prosperous pursuit and to begin the qualifying and

application process?

As a company of Artist-Community members who extend an innovative spectrum of

disciplines and related literature to disadvantaged and highly educated communities, this

organization needs and deserves the support of the Art-Project Grant offered by the National

Endowment for the Arts, which will benefit our neighborhood and infrastructures with lasting

impressions. Our excellent artwork and literature are unlike any other because our monumental

work encourages critical, analytical, and creative thinking throughout all levels of academic

interest. This Proposal will result in the improvement of the educational environment of our

immediate and global societies; consequently, the Grant will improve educational conditions and

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opportunities through the meaningful collaboration that our members encourage—influential

culture and reasoning that exemplary reports, editorials, and illustrations innovate. Our future

depends on this Grant to support our Art Projects as an Artist Community. When will all of our

members meet to advance this prosperous pursuit, and to begin the qualifying and application

process?

Introduction

1. Description of the Organization

For more than 30 years, BAAP has been providing on-the-job training and internships

for credit at its professional publishing and printing company. It has featured editorials by

prominent University professors, award-winning writers, and teachers in medicine, biology, the

sciences, politics, current events, and literature. Artists who have won prestigious awards have

published their work through BAAP resources, including its independent periodical Pressing

Times. Among its fine artists, Robert Parada also produced excellent work for Mad Magazine,

Time Magazine, Rolling Stone, and Esquire that won him a Harvey Award and other rewards

from the Society of Illustrators and American Illustration, for example; Eli W. Harris has also

won top prizes from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco.

2. Unmet Need, Including Pertinent Facts

One unmet need involves negative reactions of the parents of adolescent-aged students

who fear their child’s internet access over potential detrimental influences and associations.

Upon conversing with parents at the literature table and by phone, we learn that at least 90% of

the parents do not approve of all internet content and the ultimate activity to which their children

may be subjected. KCBS radio reports 120 homicides in 2007, one robbery per 114 citizens, and

the auto theft rate of 1 per 40 citizens—more than a 10% increase over the past decade. The

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NEA Grant would provide essential security and legal protection for each member of the

organization and the organization as a whole through a security system, associated legal

advocacy at the County Bar Association, and a secure parking facility; therefore, the Grant will

enable the company to expand its services and products.

3. Proposal: Approaching a Solution

Producing highly reputed art and literary works that transpire in critical and analytical

discourse and communications that revitalize community economies, the organization indicates

important criteria that the NEA will consider in its decision to Grant funds toward the individual

and collective needs of the organization. Because supportive measures include a letter of

commendation from the town’s mayor that is important also to the recognition of the

organization as a public entity and cultural organization, and its nonprofit partner, Oakland’s

Intertribal Friendship House, the Proposal will encourage solutions essential to the security and

effective legal representation of the organization. As a solution to its needs, important letters

will also involve the supportive measures that involve the organization’s status not only as an

unincorporated membership association (Fuller, 2010), but as either a public entity or nonprofit

tax-exempt 501 (c)(3), its DUNS number (www.dnb.com), and its registration with the Central

Contractor Registration (CCR: www. ccr.gov).

4. Established Goal

Through multidisciplinary activities, the BAAP Press, its cooperative magazine, training,

internship, community associations, events, and coverage will support the needs of its members

and management to continue the production of the most excellent and diverse art and literature

through the goal of a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). That goal

involves expansive support for the tremendous needs of our artistic and publishing communities,

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including Oakland’s Intertribal Friendship House, to produce highest quality, nationally

published work. The exclusive artist residency will continue to cultivate and support the

provocative creative process of art, literature, and/or media products to transform its associated

and surrounding communities into cultural centers that rejuvenate health from every sector, and

that improve law-enforcement and security measures as merchants in the area simultaneously

flourish. The goal further involves the improved viability of our town which will be the result of

our recognized esprit cordiale with the nearby police department, ethnic radio station, and

Renaissance Journalism Project, for example. Through the inspiration of profound critical arts

and literature, the goal to improve business will increase community revenues by at least 300%.

5. Appropriately Established Measurable Objectives

Achieving the goal will involve surveys, records, and a timeline about the following objectives:

▪ A liaison that the organization maintains with the nearby police department, the Lifelong

Medical Association, the ethnic broadcasting network, KPFA, and the Renaissance Journalism

Project—the grant will improve financial and defensive support by at least 300%;

▪ The sense of civic identity that the company evokes, which may be measured and described

through surveys and regular checklists as a “supportive learning environment,” as indicated in

Harvard Business Review (Edmonson, Garvin, & Gino, 2008, para. 5;

▪ The “results-oriented approach” as described in International Public Management Review that

indicates an effective initiative revolving about our town as fellow merchants interact with

supportive measures to the literature- and artwork- literature table and support networks at which

Pressing Times and publishing services are offered that improve the quality of community life

Casey, Peck, Webb, & Quast, 2008).

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▪ Influences of intelligible creative activity and the highest morale—BAAP’s products and

services refrain from any “over-reliance or short-term financial measures like ROI” which

Harvard Business Review indicates could cause a “short death of investment in the innovation

that is its lifeblood” (Magretta, 2002, 136); and

▪ The welcoming sense of place essential to community prosperity through “its partnerships with

other beneficial associates” as described in Info-line (Info-line, ASTD, 2000, 1).

The Budget

Since BAAP is comprised of numerous partnerships that actually foster all of the

outcomes of Creation, Engagement, Learning, and Livability of artists throughout its

multifarious avenues of higher education, it is first planning a budget proposal as an Artist

Community for the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Grant of $100,000. Throughout its

31 years, the organization has established partnerships with exceptionally talented local, distant,

and travelling artists, professors, instructors, and writer-editors. The NEA Grant for the Artist

Community’s Art Works Grant will function as a prelude to the cultural impact that the Our

Town Grant for $250,000 will achieve. The Art Works Grant is an optimistic prospect due to the

submission deadline of March 2012, and the opportunistic Art Works Grant will offer NEA

support beginning January 1, 2012. Unlike any other, the Artist Community’s Art Works Grant

offers Federal Domestic Assistance that will cover the extensive support of affordable housing,

employment, education, safety, comfortable transportation, and an aesthetically appreciable

environment. The Grant will finance all of the expenses necessary to secure the plethora of

social, civic, and cultural activities that the organization strives to expand—the organization will

be supported to offer legal temporary housing to its award-winning participants and teachers so

that it may apply for the Artist Community Our Town Grant during 2013.

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1. Narrative: Review of Plan

Complemented with a large dining hall, kitchen, off-street parking, library, conference

room, computer lab, press room, and upstairs living accommodations, the NEA Artist

Community’s Art Works Grant will provide legal protection to BAAP in its quest to produce and

to distribute further art of the most excellent quality throughout the world. The Grant will

provide all of the support that the community requires to save its work to new formats. Since the

BAAP staff and board members represent many artist-illustrators, instructors, journalists, and

editors who have lost regular wages and pension funds since the newspapers for which they once

worked have transformed to one merging online news service (Fuller, 2010), the Grant will fund

the living quarters and equipment necessary to preserve the organization’s operations. The

$100,000 grant will enable BAAP to maintain its complete multi-level facilities, a historic

landmark that is the only and oldest Masonic building in Berkeley, California.

2. Estimated Cost of Resources—Projected “All-Inclusive” Cost

The itinerant “all-inclusive” cost of all resources for 2013 that pertain to the NEA Grant

is $100,000. Domestic accommodations are very discrete—the organization has been searching

for the assistance of an attorney who will be willing to volunteer time and resources that BAAP

needs to declare itself an official artist community, writers’ cooperative, social outreach

program, and publications society. The NEA Grant will provide the $20,000 that an attorney

needs to protect BAAP’s interests, security, work, and legal rights in 2013. Legal security will

alleviate unusual tension of artists who are working within the building and who do not hope to

become victims of any unfounded accusations, slander, and/or libel. As they are able to address

their domestic living issues while they are at the Berkeley facility, BAAP’s artists and instructors

will be able to fully devote their attention to their work. They will be funded with the finances

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that the staff requires to renovate the living facilities within the historic building that exists in a

business-zoned area.

The overall costs of domestic improvement and individual salary will be $57,020—the

historic landmark is in need of plumbing updates. The major artists, senior staff, and instructors

of Photoshop and InDesign will receive $34,000 for their recognized part-time work as they

reside at the artist community. Artist supplies, updated computers, miscellaneous technical

equipment, and other maintenance costs, transportation, and further domestic goods will require

at least $38,000. This Grant will enable the Artist Community to continue to receive other

grants, private contributions, and proceeds from the sale of its printing services and products.

3. Anticipated Expenses

Projected Budget for Funds Supplied by the NEA Artists Community: Artist Project

Expenses

Bay Area

Alternative

Press

Entire year of

2013

Art Project: Business

Operating Costs

Estimate Actual Difference Difference (%)

12 PCs with Windows 7

Operating System, and Router to

facilitate online operations for all

workers and students

$ 4,800 $ 5,000 $ 200 104.17%

Upgrades to Adobe Licenses of

Photoshop and InDesign for all

$ 1,200 $ 1,400 $ 200 116.67%

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12 PCs

Compatible scanner $ 120 $ 225 $ 105 187.5%

Maintenance of Pressroom

Equipment toward live Public

Relations, Broadcasting,

Presentation of Art Projects

$ 2,000 $3,000 $1,000 150%

Plumbing Upgrades $22,880 $25,000 $ 2,120 109.48%

Transportation of Literature

Table to Community and

Educational Events

$ 3,000 $ 3,200 $ 200 106.67%

Insurance, Auto & Property $ 800 $ 850 $ 50 106.25%

Attorney Fees $10,000 $10,000 ------- --------

Taxes (Property) and City/other

License Fees

$ 800 $ 850 $ 50 106.25%

Utilities $ 1,200 $ 1,300 $ 100 150%

Miscellaneous $ 200 $ 300 $ 100 150%

Total $ 47,020 $ 51,125 $ 4,105 108/73%

Livability

—Federal Domestic Need

Estimate Actual Difference Difference (%)

Upgrades to Domestic Facilities

(Showers, Kitchen fixtures and

$ 1,020 $ 1,400 $ 380 137.25%

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tubs)

Legal Costs, Attorney Fees $ 10,000 $10,000 ------- -------

Temporary Living Expenses

(Wages for Employment while at

BAAP) of Staff

Temporary Living Expenses

(Wages for Employment while at

BAAP) of 2 Staff Members

$ 24,000

(i.e., $12,000

for each of the

2 staff

members)

-------- ------- -----------------

Temporary Living Expenses

(Wages for Employment while at

BAAP) of 4 Graphic

Artists/Artist Teachers

$ 12,000 (i.e.,

$ 3,000 for

each of the 4

professional

artist teachers)

-------- -------- -----------------

Temporary Living Expenses

(Wages for Employment while at

BAAP) of 4 Award-Winning

Student Artists

$10,000 (i.e., $

2,500 for each

of the 4 student

artists)

-------- --------- ----------------

Total $ 57,020 --------- --------- ----------------

Grand Total $100,000 $ 4,105 $104,105 104.105%

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How will BAAP absorb the extra $4,105 operating and domestic costs as it is developing

its most monumental project that is oriented about historic heritage, harmonious environmental

conditions, and related architectural influences? Through its accurate replacement of its

literature table, the organization achieves the civic identity and support from ethnic leaders that

International Public Management Review indicates are important to its sustainability

(Edmonson, Garvin, & Gino, 2008), and that Harvard Review declares are essential to its

financial viability (Casey, Peck, Webb, & Quast, 2008).

The innovative lifeblood (Magretta, 2002) that prolongs its partnerships with other

beneficial associates as described in Info-long (Info-line, ASTD, 2000) will be magnified

through support of the Bay Area BAR Associations as the retained attorney is able to establish a

profession in conjunction with his/her law school, legislators and the court system. The attorney

will reinforce donor/sponsor foundations and positive communication relationships as described

by M. Sedeca (Sedeca, 2011), and advocate for the inherent values and activities of the

organization and each of its members as it implements the vast number of Grassroots

Fundraising activities (Hsiang & Topakiam, 2008). The budget will surely exceed the NEA

Grant by at least $4,105. However, the Artist Community’s Arts Project Grant will permit the

continuation of these other sources of revenue and support during 2013 while the organization

demonstrates its worthiness for the Artist Community’s Our Town Grant of $250,000 for which

it will prepare a budget, complete proposal, and application during that year.

Human Resource Requirements

Compelling Human Resource Requirements, the Project addressed by my Proposal will

impact the BAAP workplace with new profound monumentality as the organization is offered

national support to further develop and introduce to the world its excellent literature and fine art.

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The impact will also involve the cultural influence of civic and educational activities that BAAP

offers. The innovative Project will result in the challenging recruitment of new customer service

trainees who will work the phone and the literature table to promote BAAP’s professional

products and services. The Supervisor of the NEA Project will especially include BAAP’s

Facilities Manager, Board Members, and Customer Relations. My role involves the preparation

of Application Materials as well as the management and submission of references and

recommendations of a governmental affiliate and our cultural partnerships; therefore, as a

Communications and Editorial Consultant, I am acting as a Manager of Grant Opportunities.

As they oversee the budget, production, consultants, sponsorships, and the interviews of

new members and trainees, the Board Members and Facilities Manager face challenging cultural

issues that involve appointments, behavior, accurate wording, plans, and admission into the

facility. Predominant morale and “turf” issues revolve around the security of the company and

each of its members—entry to the facilities depends on a scheduled appointment. As more

students and job trainees are encouraged to participate, progress, and instruct at entry-, mid-, and

advanced-level positions, the innovative Proposal will involve a systematic approach to the

Project to support the National Environmental Policy Act and/or the National Historic

Preservation Act, each which evokes diverse cultural perspectives that some individuals will

strive to address, but that will require no new job descriptions or special recruiting challenges.

Technology (IT) Requirements

Highlighting the MS Live and MS Sharepoint IT management systems is to explain the

value of the diverse “knowledge classification schemes” that they permit—training; policy and

strategy development; and evaluations and solutions options (Handzic, 2005, 217). MS

Sharepoint and MS Live enable motivated members to submit, to share interactively, and to

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discuss with great security, either portions and/or the entirety of the proposal, application, and

project, even from a distance. As IT Management Technologies, Microsoft (MS) Sharepoint and

MS Live provide a platform that integrates all of the requirements of the National-Endowment-

for-the-Arts (NEA) Grant and related Artist Community’s Art Project. The MS Sharepoint

Server 2007 (MOSS) offers important rich features while it also functions as a central hub, not

only for accounting, but for an immense variety of collaborative and/or individually derived

products—it serves as a flexible filing system, as business, legal, and creative intelligence tools,

and as a developing workflow engine. Furthermore, MS Sharepoint and MS Live permit the

development, storage, and analyses of collaborative reports, data, and statistics in a secure

operating environment that is relevant to our unmet need—90% of the senior citizens and parents

who are devoting their attention and time to prevent crime in the community and over the

internet. MOSS and MS Live handle all of the diverse databases and file systems that our NEA

Project and related objectives require.

MS Sharepoint and MS Live offer IT Management, not only of the design, business,

compositional, instructional, and collaborative stages of the Proposal and Project. They maintain

a structure important to legal evidence, ongoing documentation, and decision-making. They

prevent vulnerable invasion by spyware attacks and other security threats, counter-attacks, and

system failures. Security gurus continue to offer crisis management, relative checklists, and

dynamic remedies. With MS Live and MS Sharepoint, one may publish Powerpoint

Presentations, other media, Excel Spreadsheets, MS Graphics, and ROI figures to a private and

restricted number. As one of our partners incorporates as a nonprofit (i.e., with 501(c)(3) status),

these files must be maintained as important legal evidence that our Senior Director is not being

paid, and that our corporate members are not creating products that could be deemed a violation

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of 501(c )(3) regulations (Fritz, 2009). Without these ongoing IT Management resources, the

“mission creep,” which pertains to important political issues that “extend beyond our

organization’s ability to be effective” (Magretta, 2002, 92), paralyzes our thoughts and work

through overwhelming fear.

Highlights of MS Sharepoint and MS Live include their complimentary usage. As long-

time license owners of MS products that we have upgraded for more than 20 years, we already

have recognized user names and passwords for these products. MS Sharepoint 2007 requires a

download and a $10/monthly fee for the MS Sharepoint Server. Currently, we pay for several

web servers at a similar rate combined; therefore, the price does not alter our estimated or actual

budget of the NEA $100,000 Grant. The advantages of socialization and knowledge codification

of the IT Management platforms of MS Live and MS Sharepoint involve organizational

databases, search engines, and discovery tools through the interior and the exterior of the systems

as described in major IT reports. As catalysts, they also highlight the “tacit knowledge and

[instructional/collaborative] sharing”—the focus on individuals, virtual groups, ethical issues,

and culture that will improve the appreciation among our corporate members for internet usage

reports (Handzic, 2007, 24).

Implementation Activities; Operations Requirements

Before our organization begins the Art Project that it will develop through the support of

the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Grant, it must complete the project that involves the

Grant application and proposal. The NEA will accept applications up to 10 days prior to the

current deadline of March 10, 2012. Scheduling requirements are being drafted as per NEA

directions, and physical resource requirements have been secured; however, they are a part of the

Operations Requirements because they must be maintained, repaired, and replaced as necessary.

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Logistical considerations involve the NEA Application; for example, diverse intricate

files that are evidence of our 31 years of production—illustrations and editorials of laborers,

industrial procedures, instruction, humanitarian gatherings, disasters such as Katrina and oil

spills, and medical/environmental controversies. These files also include the names of everyone

who has contributed to the creation and composition of products and services. Because the

Facilities Manager maintains inventory of the equipment in the pressroom and computer lab, he

regularly assigns new priorities to his daily records. Operations requirements involve the

maintenance of partners and sponsors who offer non-monetary forms of support; for example,

reliable technicians who repair and setup equipment in exchange for the usage of the conference

room and library. The proposal project requires Facilities and Operations Manager to submit the

finest examples of the company’s products and services to describe what they will develop, to

assess the levels of ongoing development, and to explain at last what they have learned.

Because the operations requirements involve financial accounting, for example, the

Employer/Taxpayer Identification Number (EIN/TIN) assigned by the Internal Revenue Service,

the Operations Manager must trust the graphics designer, Photoshop instructor, and Special Ed

instructor with safeguarded data. Furthermore, as collaboration resumes, the benefits of the

company as a nonprofit incorporation will attract the major senior stakeholders to further NEA

support. All of this data and archived evidence will require the setup, commencement, and

sustenance of secure stations—“knowledge classification schemes” (Handzic, 2005, 217) of MS

Live and the MS Sharepoint Server 2007 (MOSS). Access to these stations will be administered

through personnel designated by the Operations Manager.

As parents have evoked a “mission creep” (Magretta, 2001, 92) about internet dangers,

we have each secured additional desks outside of the company territory. Activities that the

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Administrator and company must execute and sustain to achieve the Grant Project include: (1)

the completed Form SF-424 for Federal Domestic Assistance; (2) The completed NEA Form

about the Organization and Profile; (3) The completed NEA-Project-Site-Locations Form, and

(4) An Attachment Form to which the following must be attached:

The completed Project Budget Form

A list of designated financial data on the appropriate form,

Completion of biographies of the major project personnel,

Identification of all of the board members,

Information about the consortium partnerships of official status,

The unique project budget of the company (optional),

A list of related special activities,

A list of special items that the art project requires,

A work sample index, and

Submission of these components by mail to the NEA Pennsylvania address

(NEA, 2011, para. 27)

The project will not require assistance from the purchasing or materials management

department as so much of our support is realized through non-monetary negotiations. Supplier

contracts will not need to be negotiated for any services and supplies unless technological and

economic trends and infrastructures change when the NEA support is achieved. No more

supplies or equipment will need to be inventoried or stored until the recognized economic trends

and infrastructures are corrected.

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Considering the NEA; Addressing Potential Challenges

Although the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) offers Grants that predominantly

have hearkened to Museums for the artifacts that they innovate and preserve, it recently has been

supporting contemporary art that impacts communities with meaningful art education, art

community art projects, and works of distinct excellence. Of course, art historians, curators, and

critics do not always direct their attention and support to applicants and submitters of proposals.

The number of Artist Community Art Projects and Works that the NEA is funding has grown

considerably, and the NEA’s disbursement of support by its chairman Rocco Landesman

significantly has increased the names of its award categories/titles, and the Watts Arts Grant

amid Towers skate park controversy is one example of the NEA at work—an example of the way

that the program supports partnerships between local government and private art groups. In fact,

NEA is funding more private art communities than ever before as members of Senate Cultural

Caucuses, for example, bridge public and private learning communities with evocative art forms,

such as the Watt Towers—the prominent cultural rise that attracts constructive educational

interest as an influential masterpiece of folk art, even from a great distance.

The organization, which has responded to the Proposal Cover Letter about the NEA

Grant Application, consists of a unique range of artists and of educators who form an Artist

Community that continues to produce, share, and to innovate art projects, works, and

monumental themes that evoke visibly meaningful lifelong impressions. In the behalf of this

organization, this Proposal appeals to award-winning candidates whose work warrants support

from the NEA for a new Project or Work. The decision-making process of the NEA is steered

by strata of political leaders from the local to the federal level who are impressed by the

circumspect and outreach of BAAP as a distinguished private art group. Although NEA

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Chairman Rocco Landesman funded 51 grants that total $6.6 million this year in the Arts alone,

the federal agency has granted more than $88 million dollars altogether in 1,145 grants across the

nation. Therefore, it should not hesitate to fund BAAP for its 31 years as an active art and

literary community that integrates its own supportive humanitarian outreach program, products,

and activities. Senator Clairborne Pell had founded the NEA in 1965 as an independent

governmental agency that has supported world-class art at levels that are both established or

newly developing, and rise of art communities and art education during times of crises is having

the effect of the Watt Towers—Cultural and folk heritage themes, in addition to

technological/industrial/sociological themes attract the attention of the artist audience with

beneficent influence.

The NEA primarily supported nonprofits until recently when it began to fund Artist

Communities involved in folk/cultural heritage and historic/contemporary themes of educational

value. It supports Museums of Modern Art such as the Museum of Contemporary Art of

Georgia (MOCA GA). On July 12, Portland Oregon’s Art at Work Program received one of the

$100,000 NEA Grants funded by the NEA’s inaugural Our Towne program. The public-private

partnerships that it is intended to nurture are synonymous with those that BAAP also cultivates.

While BAAP has been assisting prominent artists, writers, and educators during its 31

years in the publishing industry, it has also worked simultaneously in the Humanities, both areas

coinciding in multidisciplinary studies. It has promoted cultural products of underrepresented

communities and individuals that are similar to the neighborhoods surrounding the Watt

Towers—crises in Katrina, the University campuses, the educational system, and homeless

populations, for example. Therefore, BAAP has not focused on the power of its congressional

system and legislators to support directly the role of NEA legislators on cultural activities.

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Now that the Proposal Cover Letter has reached the Editor Emeritus and Graphics

Designer/computer programmer, the organization has shared with me more biographical

information of its most influential members, evidence of its artist partners, and evidence that its

board currently consists of more than 10 members. The Director did not know that the

organization’s Board of Directors was functioning in respect to the decision-making processes

and organizational dynamics that the NEA Chairman and legislators support as excellent

influences of art production, innovation, and archiving, which are sustained through ethnic

broadcasting, cultural and tribal activities, and artists accomplished in many artistic disciplines.

No “invisible hand” or arcane panacea exists to negotiate the explanations, introductions,

and organizational management that the public-private partnerships of BAAP require to

complete the application process. However, those partnerships include members who are

capable of producing the most excellent art work that ever was conceivable—it maintains

samples of its work that reflects the dynamic society, industry, and disaster, and profound

accounts of direct reporting. As it seeks funding from well-motivated corporate sponsors, BAAP

has detected corporate values and objectives that it cannot support. Although such industrial and

bureaucratic perspectives do not support those of BAAP, they nonetheless coincide with the

legislative supporters of cultural and folk arts, and of contemporary/historic artifacts preserved

by museums of art. This contradiction evokes a “mission creep” (Magretta, 2002, 108)—a loss

of focus of the Director for general bureaucracy, as the organization supports equality, peace,

adequate representation, and ethical standards on a humanitarian level.

As “Lead Your Manager” indicates, winning support from the Manager or Director

requires the use of “repetition and continual updating to strengthen credibility”—a coalition

(Antonioni, 2008, 21) with other artist communities and humanitarian/legislative leaders who

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empathize with BAAP’s perspectives about Caracas, HIV, Katrina, the Space Mission, and the

Golf Oil crisis, for example. Overseeing these overlapping, perhaps esoteric qualities, the

ameliorating analyst must maintain a SWOT analysis, analyzing strengths, weaknesses,

opportunities, and threats from an objectively intuitive power-leading position, and advise all

stakeholders of important deductions, possibilities, and issues. If funds are perceivable restricted

to the Senior Operations Manager as a nonprofit rather than capitalist investor, then the intuitive

Grant Applicant must lead through the perspective financial analysis, assumption justification,

and sensitivity analysis (Hynes, 2007) conducive to the ultimate value that the federal grant

support will offer all of the Directors and stakeholders over a prolonged time.

Issues

The Proposal for the Artist Community—Art Works Grant has won very much approval

by the Board and the Directors who are skeptic of the bureaucracy that forces millions of

valuable citizens into destitution. As one analyzes the negligence and disregard of citizens and

legislators for victims, of crime, the conscience that major legislators abandon should concern

everyone in the justice and social welfare system. Controversial subjects regarding genuine

circumstances, free will, and equal opportunity should not force legislators, legal counselors, and

political leaders to compel others into dire poverty. The NEA Committee is directed by Chief

Rocco Landesman who has been recognizing individual artists and communities as the heart and

hope of the nation—a perspective that was not prominent or widely respected in the 1990s.

Effective strategies involve the reading and following of all of the rules, and the reading and

learning of the NEA and the Grant that an organization may seek; the Proposal in this case

involves the Application for Artist Communities—Art Works Grant. New Grants and titles have

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been derived and assigned over the past several years. The common review process of Art

Works by the NEA is extensive, and it is posted on its web.

The Intelligence in Grant Identity

Other organizations that the NEA has supported with Grants for providing access to

Artistic Excellence include Artist Communities such as the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, and

many more that are similar to the organization for which the Proposal is intended. To reiterate,

NEA Chairman Rocco Landesman has funded 51 grants that total $6.6 million this year in the

Arts for the Watts Towers area of California alone, and the federal agency has granted more than

$88 million dollars altogether in 1,145 grants across the nation. In 2008, it offered invaluable

assistance to Rhode Island’s Artist Communities; to the Albuquerque Health Care for the

Homeless (AHCH) for a collaborative project between AHCH’s ArtStreet program; to Seattle

Art Communities and Partnerships—the list is too immense to list here; however, it continues to

grow by the number and by the title; furthermore, new categories are available for individual

artists and writers. Foundations for the Humanities and Heritage Fellowships are also new

innovations of the Association. Successful Applications most influentially appeal to vast

audiences. Further guidelines to successful competition include:

Meticulous adherence to the Application Instructions;

Accurately detailed Organization and Project Profiles;

Well worded biographies of prominent accomplished members of the organization;

Samples of the most excellent work of contributing members;

Meaningful programmatic Activities List; and

A Project Narrative that effectively describes the planned Project.

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Honor Statement

This assignment/assessment was solely written by me. In no way have I plagiarized (represented

the work of another as my own) or otherwise violated the copyright laws and academic

conventions of fair use. I know that violations of this policy may result in my being dismissed

from Jones International University and/or appropriate legal action being taken against me.

Signed (submitting this statement to teaching faculty with student's name typed below constitutes

signing):

Cynthia Gallagher