Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs is seeking applications to provide stable and substantial funding to fully professional institutions with year-round programs and annual fiscal operations specifically in Miami-Dade County.
Donor Name: Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs
State: Florida
County: Miami-Dade County (FL)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 03/02/2023
Details:
The objective of this program is to help support the annual operations of and programming provided to the community by Miami-Dade’s largest, exemplary cultural organizations. In so doing, the Cultural Affairs Council reaffirms and carries out its fiduciary responsibility to maximize the impact of investing public tax dollars and assures the steady provision of outstanding cultural products throughout Miami-Dade County and contributes to the County’s overall vitality as a community and as an attractive tourist destination.
MCI organizations must have a documented history of at least five years of providing high quality programming to large and diverse audiences from across Miami-Dade County and beyond. They also have a documented impact on the local economy and contribute to the growth and development of artistic excellence. These organizations provide a variety of programs to the public, implement outreach endeavors and provide services to a wide range of audiences and/or underserved communities. Programs supported by MCI grants are multifaceted and demonstrate a sustained and significant commitment to achieving cultural and/or artistic excellence generally recognized throughout the local community, and within its discipline regionally, nationally and, often, internationally.
Grant Categories
The MCI Grants Program operates with two (2) categories of eligibility for designation/funding consideration:
- Category A:
- Addresses performing arts institutions with a three-year average annual operating revenue budget more than $3 million for operations and activities in Miami-Dade County only, exclusive of tangible collections, capital funds or assets, and/or endowment corpus
- Category B:
- Addresses collecting and exhibiting institutions with extensive public programming and outreach, including museums, botanic gardens, and visual arts centers with a three-year average annual operating revenue budget in excess of $1.5 million for operations and activities in Miami-Dade County only, exclusive of tangible collections, capital funds or assets, and/or endowment corpus.
Eligible Expenses
Grant funds must be used exclusively for the organization’s general operating support for the programs described in the organization’s application. Allowable categories for expenditures include:
- Administrative, artistic, technical staff, development personnel or consultant salary support
- Production costs related to organization’s proposed project/season
- Honoraria
- Equipment rental and expendable project related supplies and materials
- Marketing
- Printing and Publications, website development and training
- In-County travel and transportation costs directly related to the funded program(s), such as field trip busses, taxis or shuttle services
- Space Rental
- Equipment rental or purchase and personnel necessary to provide program accessibility as mandated by the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973
Eligibility Criteria
To be eligible to apply, Designated Major Cultural Institutions must demonstrate compliance with each of the following criteria:
- The institution must have received a recommendation for funding from the program during the last fiscal year, and/or have been invited by Department staff to apply for this current cycle.
- The institution is:
- Legally incorporated in the State of Florida as NOT-FOR-PROFIT, with designated tax exempt status under section 501(c) (3) of the United States Internal Revenue Code.
- A political subdivision of Miami-Dade County or one of its municipalities, to be considered and determined on a case-by-case basis, provided that the organization provides services, cultural programs and open access to the community and the general public on a regular basis.
- Qualify as a public or private institution of higher education, provided that the organization provides services, cultural programs and open access to the community and the general public beyond their educational mission and on a regular basis.
- Active and in good standing with regard to its registration status with the Florida Division of Corporations pursuant to Chapter 617, Florida Statutes.
- The institution has a mission endorsed by its governing board and the institution’s primary purpose and function, as defined by its Articles of Incorporation and By-laws, is the creation, performance, exhibition, and/or presentation of arts and cultural activities on a year-round basis.
- The institution is governed by a board which meets regularly, operates under a set of by-laws, and has a fiduciary responsibility for the institution.
- The institution has professional, paid, full-time staff leadership.
- The institution has a board-endorsed long-range strategic plan, business plan and organizational chart.
- The institution is not a religious organization whose proposed project, in whole or in part, is designed to promote religious or sectarian activities or to encourage the preference of a particular religion.
- The institution must have its primary office in Miami-Dade County.
- The institution has demonstrated a sustained and significant commitment to achieving cultural or FY 2023-2024 MCI Grants Program Guidelines Page 3 of 13 MCI24 – INTERIM artistic excellence generally recognized throughout the community, and within its discipline regionally and nationally.
- The institution has demonstrated a sustained and significant contribution to the cultural and economic life of Miami-Dade County, evidenced by:
- A proven track record of having presented full and regular seasons of cultural programs open to the general public for an uninterrupted five-year period.
- An impact of its programming that is of county-wide, regional and national significance.
- A documentable trend of substantial Miami-Dade audience support through ticket sales, annual subscriptions and/or memberships, earned income and fund raising attainments for each of the preceding three years.
- A demonstrated commitment to making artistic excellence accessible through core public programming that includes a professionally managed education and outreach program that benefits all segments of the community.
- A current season which sustains the general level of programming and impact in Miami-Dade County as prior years’ activities.
- The institution demonstrates long term fiscal responsibility and long-range planning.
- The institution can document, through audits and/or investment records, that an endowment meeting.
- The following discipline-specific minimum level thresholds is established and operating for the exclusive benefit of the applicant organization (Dance: $100,000; Theater: $100,000; Museums/Gardens/Visual Arts: $600,000; Sponsor/Presenter: $600,000; Music: $1,000,000); or can provide a board-adopted, specific and benchmarked, multi-year plan for establishing and capitalizing an institutional Endowment Fund structured to achieve the appropriate required level.
- Proof of the Institution’s current accreditation status as conferred by the American Alliance of Museums (AAM), the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA) or proof that the organization is in the process of obtaining accreditation.
- Proof of the institution’s current and involved membership in the appropriate national service organization for its field/discipline, except in the case where no such organization exists.
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