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
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