Boost! Innovation Fund Request for Information (RFI) ARTS-FOCUSED PARTNERSHIPS

Congratulations! Your organization is one of a small group of community-based nonprofits invited to participate in a limited grant opportunity to select arts-focused partners for some of the Boost! schools for the 2011-12 school year.

Through a generous anonymous matching gift donation from Nationwide Insurance, United Way has secured funds to seed the Boost! Innovation Fund, specifically to support innovative arts-focused partnerships between Boost! schools and community-based organizations. These partnerships should enrich the curriculum and/or help meet the wraparound needs of students in one or more of the four Boost domains:

extended learning
behavioral health
physical health
family support and engagement

Through this fund, each of the Boost! schools will be eligible for up to $30,000 to partner with one or more organizations. Grants will range from $2,500-30,000 and the majority of the funds must be spent on paying artistic staff to work directly with students, staff or parents. Three of the Boost! schools – Barnard, Clinton Avenue and Metropolitan -- have already identified the organizations they would like to partner with through the Boost! process to date.

Two of the schools – Troup and Wexler-Grant – are interested in learning more about potential arts-focused partnership opportunities, so we are launching another mini-RFI process to help connect them to potential partners. Because we are anxious to put these partnerships into place for the 2011-12 school year, we have a very tight timeline and hope that you will be able to respond to this opportunity quickly.

Please complete the form below and click submit. We thank you for your participation in this Boost! RFI.

Organization/Group Information

Name of Organization/Group *

Address *

Website *

Contact Person *

Title *

Phone Number *

Email Address *

(1) Provide a brief description of your organization or group [200 word limit] *

Program/Service Description

(2) Describe the arts-focused service or program your organization would like to provide: [200 word limit] *

(4) What is the target age group for your program? *

(5) How many students would your program service? *

(6) Frequency

Is your program daily, weekly, other? *

How many times per week/month/year? *

(7) What is the duration

# hours/session? *

Total #/sessions? *

(8) If you are approved for funding, how quickly could you begin to implement your program in one of the Boost! schools? *

(9) Would you offer the program in the school or outside the school? *

(10) If you were to offer it in a school, what are your space requirements? *

(11) Do you have other requirements (e.g. access to computers, library, gym) to offer your program in the school? *

(12) Do you have preference which school(s) you would like to work in? *

Augusta Troup School

Wexler-Grant Community School

No preference

(13) What are your expected results from this partnership? [100 word limit] *

(14) How would you propose to measure/report on the results of this partnership? [200 word limit] *

Grant Request

1. Grant amount requested? *

2. Budget: Please explain how you plan to spend these funds.

Note: it is a requirement of that grant that the majority of funds be spent on artistic staff. *

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