Tour & Residency Subsidy Application


The Tour & Residency Program is one of Alternate ROOTS’ longest running programs. For more than twenty years, it has provided fee subsidies to enable qualified presenters in the ROOTS’ service region* to bring artists on the Tour & Residency Roster into their communities. This program provides an opportunity to utilize the arts to encourage dialogue, foster understanding, educate audiences, and nourish cooperation and collaboration amongst Southern artists and the communities they serve across the country.

*Alternate ROOTS’ service region consists of Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia, and Washington, D.C.  In addition, for the purposes of this program, ROOTS will make subsidies available to presenters outside ROOTS’ service region who are a part of the Ford Foundation’s Supporting Diverse Art Spaces Initiative.

Applications must be received in the office by Thursday, March 1 at 6:00 p.m. Eastern.  While a draft form is attached below to assist you in preparing your answers, please submit all application materials electronically through this form.  This form is a one-time upload (i.e. you cannot save your answers and come back to it.) Please make sure to save your draft version in case something goes wrong in the upload process. 

Organizational Information

This should be the primary liaison both for the application and for the project.

Give a 1-2 sentence summary of the project you are proposing.

$

How much is the subsidy you are requesting from Alternate ROOTS?

Dates must fall within the parameters of July 1, 2012-July 31, 2013.

Organization Mission & Readiness

This section will be utilized to help us get to know your organization better.

Use this space to discuss organizational history with presentation and/or level and nature of community engagement in presenting choices, residency design, etc. You can link to a place on your website that gives more information.

Project Proposal & Community Engagement

Please describe the performance/residency with as much detail as you can. Artistic merit of the project [not of the artist(s)] will be assessed at 30% and community engagement will be assessed at 30%.

Speak to the artistic merit of the artist/organization and especially to the artistic quality of the project proposed.

Some goals might include audience numbers, diversity of participants, financial markers, market outreach, new partnerships built, change in attitudes as evidenced through evaluations, number of talkbacks...

Accessibility

Worth up to 15% in the assessment of your application.

Is the venue ADA compliant? Will there be programs available in large print? Will the performance be free or subsidized? Does the engagement time match the availability of the community served?

Documentation and Evaluation

Worth up to 15% in the assessment of your application.

Please use the budget template that is attached at the bottom of this page. Clarity and logic of the budget will be assessed at 10% of the overall proposal.

Please include a copy of the confirmation email from the ROOTS Tour & Residency artist(s)/organization you are interested in working with that you have spoken with each other and they are on board. We understand that this means no contracts will be signed until after subsidy notification.

A copy of your organization’s federal tax-exempt letter, or a copy of your letter stating that you have been granted temporary tax-exempt status until full tax-exempt status has been granted. (This tax-exempt letter is not necessary for schools, colleges, universities, and units of local government.)

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Tour Guidelines (March 2012).doc46.5 KB
Tour_Subsidy_Application_Draft.doc104 KB
Tour_Subsidy_Budget_Template.xls18.5 KB