Two-Year Operating Support Grant

Project Details by Fiscal Year
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$14,700
Fund Source
Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund
Recipient
Zeitgeist Center for Arts and Community
Recipient Type
Non-Profit Business/Entity
Status
Completed
Start Date
February 2016
End Date
March 2018
Activity Type
Grants/Contracts
Counties Affected
St. Louis
Carlton
Lake
Cook
Itasca
Aitkin
Koochiching
St. Louis
Carlton
Lake
Cook
Itasca
Aitkin
Koochiching
Project Overview
Two-Year Operating Support Grant
Project Details
Zeitgeist Arts Communications Coordinator
Competitive Grant Making Body
Board Members and Qualifications
Erling Ellison: jewelry designer and creator, speech coach and judge, director of Garrison Art Fair; Ken Bloom: Director of Tweed Museum of Art, University of Minnesota-Duluth; Janeen Carey: vocalist, retired Hibbing Community College librarian and information media specialist; Kate Fitzgerald: Program Director for North Shore Music Association, writer; David Beard: Assistant Professor of writing studies, University of Minnesota-Duluth; Adam Guggemos: graphic designer, art events promoter; Michelle Ronning: jewelry designer and maker; John Gregor: photographer, art educator, community art advocate; Ann Russ: music performer, community song leader, choir director, workshop leader, past director and founder of North Shore Music Association; Tara Makinen: Executive Director of Itasca Orchestra and Strings, musician; Dana Mattice: Development and Communications Director of The Art Institute Duluth; Moira Villiard: visual artist and student of arts and communication at University of Wisconsin-Superior; Jeanne Doty: Retired Associate Professor of music, University of Minnesota-Duluth, pianist; Candace LaCosse: North House Folk School instructor, leatherwork designer and crafter.
Advisory Group Members and Qualifications
Erling Ellison: jewelry designer and creator, speech coach and judge, director of Garrison Art Fair; Ken Bloom: Director of Tweed Museum of Art, University of Minnesota-Duluth; Janeen Carey: vocalist, retired Hibbing Community College librarian and information media specialist; David Beard: Assistant Professor of writing studies, University of Minnesota-Duluth; Michelle Ronning: jewelry designer and maker; John Gregor: photographer, art educator, community art advocate; Ann Russ: music performer, community song leader, choir director, workshop leader, past director and founder of North Shore Music Association; Jeanne Doty: Retired Associate Professor of music, University of Minnesota-Duluth, pianist.
Conflict of Interest Disclosed
No
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
$14,700
Other Funds Leveraged
$1,100,324
Direct expenses
$1,115,024
Administration costs
$14,700
Number of full time equivalents funded
0.12
Proposed Measurable Outcome(s)

The Communications Coordinator role will allow us to take a multi-year leap forward in our communications over the next 8 to 12 months. The additional skill and capacity created will allow us to fully execute and implement the marketing plan created by Zeitgeist Arts and Steam Creative. By the end of the first year of this position, Zeitgeist Arts will have done the administrative legwork and be positioned to fully engage with the community via all available media and marketing means. In the long term, this will result in increased revenue across our cafe, cinema and theater venues. This increased revenue will provide the funds to sustain the Communications Coordinator position, as well as sustain and grow our organization. It will also result in a benefit for the artistic community as we will have the ability to increase programming, increase the audience for those pieces of programming and provide more and more ways for artists to showcase their work, and be paid for their work. The marketing plan designed by Zeitgeist Arts and Steam Creative (and attached to this application) provides a detailed, organized and measurable roadmap for the Communications Coordinator to follow. Via regular meetings with the Creative Director and other key management staff, priorities will be assigned, goals will be met, and progress will be made. Our goal over the first 8 to 12 months is to accomplish 75% or more of this marketing plan, and have a maintenance and expansion model in place to sustain the communications work we've done and expand on it. To measure our long term goal of increased revenue and programming capacity for area artists, we will review and evaluate box office receipts, and compare them with similar events from previous years. We will also compare the monthly and yearly amount of programming against previous years.

Measurable Outcome(s)

Continued to build our storytelling tools & better integrated the entirety of our programming through the following methods: -Full year-end report will be available for this report (If not, we can send the November Year end campaign information) -Monthly Newsletter, will/do include videos -Impact Emails -With development of new website, all of our social media pages are connected to the same website -Common logos across all pages -Staff Newsletter, Reworking Managers Meetings Agendas (to ensure these meetings have take-aways), Pairing off appropriate staff members in smaller groups to get work accomplished -Systemizing How-To’s for job functions, for future and current roles, documenting staff roles (Consistent log-in information, well documented processes) -More consistent cross promotion of messaging and events between entities within the building - screen ads, menus, table tents.

Description of Funds
Source of Additional Funds

Other, local or private

Recipient Board Members
Geiger Yount, Sarah Siedelmann, Francis Heid, Alan Zeppa, Laura Weintraub, Aparna Katre, Becky Hartley, Lynn Black, Don Ness, Curtis Landherr, Jon Heyesen, Kendra Carlson
Project Manager
First Name
Anthony
Last Name
Cuneo
Organization Name
A.H. Zeppa Family Foundation AKA Zeitgeist Center for Arts and Community
Street Address
222 Superior St E Ste 326
City
Duluth
State
MN
Zip Code
55802
Phone
(218) 726-5430
Email
tony@zeppa.org
Administered By
Administered by
Location

Griggs Midway Building, Suite 304,
540 Fairview Avenue North,
St. Paul, MN 55104

Phone
(651) 539-2650 or toll-free (800) 866-2787
Email the Agency
Location

424 West Superior Street, Suite 104
Duluth, MN 55802

Phone
Project Manager: Rebecca Graves
218-722-0952
Email the Agency