Partners in Arts Participation

2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount

$25,000

Fund Source

Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund

Recipient

Southwest Minnesota Private Industry Council, Inc.

Recipient Type

Non-Profit Business/Entity

Status

Completed

Start Date

March 2016

End Date

February 2017

Activity Type

Grants/Contracts

Counties Affected

Big Stone

Chippewa

Cottonwood

Jackson

Lac qui Parle

Lincoln

Lyon

Murray

Nobles

Pipestone

Redwood

Rock

Swift

Yellow Medicine

Project Overview

Partners in Arts Participation

Project Details

Southwest Minnesota Private Industry Council will partner with CLIMB Theatre to facilitate job skills classes that use theater and improvisation to help youth get and keep jobs.

Competitive Grant Making Body

Board Members and Qualifications

Ardell Brede: Mayor of Rochester, elected 2002.; Peggy Burnet: Businesswoman, art collector, and community volunteer. Chair of the Nominating Committee, Smithsonian National Board. Trustee, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. Vice Chair, Minnesota State Arts Board.; Michael Charron: Dean of the School of the Arts, Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota. Chair, Minnesota State Arts Board.; Rebecca Davis-Lee: Touring pianist, piano and music theory teacher; Sean Dowse, Executive director, Sheldon Theatre. Board member for Minnesota Music Coalition, Minnesota Citizens for the Arts, and Anderson Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, Treasurer, Minnesota State Arts Board.; David Glenn: Executive director of the Minnesota Project, ceramic artist; Thomas Moss: Consultant to nonprofits and government agencies; Janice Sivertson: Gallery owner and visual artist; Dobson West: Senior advisor, Spell Capital Partners Fund

Advisory Group Members and Qualifications

Janet Brademan: Retired executive director, Headwaters School of Music and the Arts; Julia Donaldson: Director of advancement, Pillsbury United Communities; Jessica O'Brien: Associate director, Minnesota Council of Churches’ Mankato refugee services; Anna Ostendorf: Program director, ArtReach; Jenea Rewertz-Targui: Arts learning program manager, Ordway Center for the Performing Arts; Kari Ruth: Director of strategic communications, Hennepin Theatre Trust; Sara Sternberger: Executive director, Free Arts Minnesota; Zahra Tafarrodi: Cross-cultural educator, researcher, author and artist

Conflict of Interest Disclosed

Project Details: 2016 Fiscal Year

Legal Citation / Subdivision

Laws of Minnesota 2015 Special Session, chapter 2, article 4, section 2, subdivision 3

Appropriation Language

ACHF Arts Access

2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount

$25,000

Other Funds Leveraged

Direct expenses

$25,000

Administration costs

$2,638

Number of full time equivalents funded

Proposed Measurable Outcome(s)

Through theatre, youth practice workplace skills that will help them get and keep meaningful employment. Southwest Minnesota PIC staff will conduct pre and post evaluations on key employability skills, including: interviews, communication and teamwork. Students will also self-rate competence in these areas.

Measurable Outcome(s)

Through theatre, 695 youth and ten adults practiced workplace skills that will help them get and keep meaningful employment. Southwest Minnesota PIC chose to do more single visit, large group sessions throughout the year, as opposed to multiple visits with the same group over a more compressed period of time. The larger, one-visit sessions, school and/or organization staff alone completed paper evaluations. For smaller, multi-visit sessions, students and staff completed paper evaluations evaluating the program and its effectiveness in engaging youth and teaching age appropriate job skills.

Description of Funds

Recipient Board Members

John Roiger, Robert Fenske, Ralph Knapp, Gary Hendrickx, John Popowski, Pam Schreier, Juanita Lauritsen

Project Manager

Juanita

Lauritsen

Southwest Minnesota Private Industry Council, Inc.

607 Main St W

Marshall

56258

(507) 476-4040

efaris@swmnpic.org