Two-Year Operating Support Grant
Two-Year Operating Support Grant
Support for a part-time paid Administrator, rent, insurance and creation of marketing materials.
Janeen Carey: vocalist, retired Hibbing Community College librarian and information media specialist; Kate Fitzgerald: Program Director North Shore Music Association, writer; Adam Guggemos: graphic designer, art events promoter; Michelle Ronning: jewelry designer and maker; Tara Makinen: Executive Director of Itasca Orchestra and Strings, musician; Moira Villiard: visual artist; Jeanne Doty: Retired Associate Professor of Music at University of Minnesota-Duluth, pianist; Amber Burns: choreographer, dancer, actor, middle school art teacher; Margaret Holmes: visual artist, poet, former Children's Theatre employee; Tammy Mattonen: visual artist, co-founder of Crescendo Youth Orchestra; Quentin Stille: student liaison, College Music Director at KUMD.
Janeen Carey: vocalist, retired Hibbing Community College librarian and information media specialist; Kate Fitzgerald: Program Director North Shore Music Association, writer; Adam Guggemos: graphic designer, art events promoter; Michelle Ronning: jewelry designer and maker; Tara Makinen: Executive Director of Itasca Orchestra and Strings, musician; Moira Villiard: visual artist; Jeanne Doty: Retired Associate Professor of music at University of Minnesota-Duluth, pianist; Amber Burns: choreographer, dancer, actor, middle school art teacher; Margaret Holmes: visual artist, poet, former Children's Theatre employee; Tammy Mattonen: visual artist, co-founder of Crescendo Youth Orchestra; Quentin Stille: student liaison, College Music Director at KUMD.
ACHF Arts Access
Lake Superior Writers' goal over the next two years will be to stabilize our finances as we develop branding and marketing materials to create awareness and increase participation in our programs. Measurable outcomes are: Improved financial picture with surplus remaining at the end of grant period. Financial stability will help to ensure that we can continue to retain an Administrator and meet our other operational expenses while we focus on our programming. An increase in Lake Superior Writers membership. Increased participation in Lake Superior Writers activities, such as entries to annual contest, workshop participants and attendees at our annual meetings. To measure the outcomes of this project, Lake Superior Writers will use the following methods: FINANCIAL RECORD KEEPING AND EVALUATION: The Administrator maintains Lake Superior Writers bookkeeping with QuickBooks Pro, where she writes checks, records deposits, and each month, reconciles the bank statements. Before each board meeting, she generates a profit and loss report and a balance sheet, and brings this information to present to the Lake Superior Writers Board. At the end of the June 30, she provides a fiscal year profit and loss report, along with a comparison to the last fiscal year, which allows the Board to check its progress with projected financial outcomes, including earnings from Memberships and Workshops. MEMBERSHIP TRACKING: The Administrator works with the Board to record and acknowledge memberships, including new memberships and renewals. Each April, Lake Superior Writers mails a membership renewal packet to our list, which allows members to renew by mail or through our website. The Administrator maintains and regularly updates an Excel spreadsheet of current and lapsed members, and offers reports on the status of the membership list and response to mailings at board meetings. PARTICIPATION IN LAKE SUPERIOR WRITERS ACTIVITIES: The Board is responsible for Lake Superior Writers Programming, and will track workshop enrollment and participation in the annual contest. BEFORE AND AFTER RESPONSE FROM MEMBERS. We will conduct two online surveys with our members, one before and one at the end of the grant period to measure their response to our new branding.
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