Peer panels of artists, arts administrators, educators, art enthusiasts, and other experts are selected from a pool of submitted questionnaires and resumes. Consideration is given to creating teams with demographics (appropriate for each category and reflective of the City) including: artistic expertise, gender, geographic knowledge, and cultural understanding. Peer panels are charged with reviewing all eligible proposals, discussing project worthiness, making comments, and assigning numerical scores. Individually, each panelist considers the applications in relation to Cultural Affairs\u2019 goals and criteria and in comparison to other proposals.
Panelists use DCA\u2019s score-sheets for consistency and scoring of each application. After individual review and consideration, the panelists gather for collegial discussion at one or more group meetings, wherein average scores are computed and final rankings determined.<\/p>\r\n
Role of DCA Grant Program Staff & Approval of Panel Recommendations<\/strong> Category-specific Scoring Criteria Scoring Criteria Used for Field Advocacy and Sector learning, Large Budget Organizations, and Outdoor Festival\/Parade Proposals<\/p>\r\n The DCA grant staff provides relevant auditing data to peer panelists so that they can make more informed decisions about Administrative Capability, Impact and Demographics, in regard to changing data and policies for City oversight and compliance. *The proposed site of your artistic project, is a critical element in scoring because DCA endeavors to support public benefits services in all of the City\u2019s fifteen council districts.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n *Based on competitive proposals from recent cycles, applications that request support in each of the following districts should recognize the following levels of openness or competition:<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n One of DCA\u2019s major objectives is to network arts organizations with non-arts organizations. Therefore, applicants receive 5 bonus points for being hosted by a social service audience-outreach partner wherein people are enrolled from the social service center and presentations are staged in the same service center site. All arts programs that are presented at arts-venues for open audiences are scored out of 100 maximum, whereas arts education partnerships that take place at non-arts venues are scored out of 105 maximum points (projects which are hybrid may be scored out of 103).<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Peer panels of artists, arts administrators, educators, art enthusiasts, and other experts are selected from a pool of submitted questionnaires and resumes. Consideration is given to creating teams with demographics (appropriate for each category and reflective of the City) including: artistic expertise, gender, geographic knowledge, and cultural understanding. Peer panels are charged with reviewing all […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":66,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-79","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P6se3X-1h","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dcaredesign.org\/grants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/79","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dcaredesign.org\/grants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dcaredesign.org\/grants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dcaredesign.org\/grants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dcaredesign.org\/grants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/dcaredesign.org\/grants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/79\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1460,"href":"https:\/\/dcaredesign.org\/grants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/79\/revisions\/1460"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dcaredesign.org\/grants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/66"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dcaredesign.org\/grants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
The staff conducts informational webinars and training sessions in City libraries to review grant-writing basics, communicate timely\/new information, and offer contemporary advice. The staff audits and compares incoming applications in accord with government information and processes (such as: the Regional Alliance for Marketplace Procurement (rampla.org), Census data, and DCA administrative review files).
The Grants staff coordinates and facilitates panel meetings, wherein the panelists evaluate DCA\u2019s grant process. \u00a0Lastly, the staff carries all panel recommendations forward for approval by DCA\u2019s Grants Administration Division Director. DCA\u2019s General Manager then reviews all grant procedures, allocations, proposed services, and represents recommended funding awards to the Mayor and City Council as part of the City\u2019s annual budget process. Awards are contingent upon the City\u2019s adopted budget and are not official until a legal contract is fully executed.<\/p>\r\n
<\/strong>DCA provides its community panelists with standard score-sheets. This helps assure fairness across categories, disciplines, and between different panel groups; and provides accuracy of proposal review against DCA\u2019s goals and objectives. Below are quick outlines providing basic information on how all disciplines are scored in specific categories. If you wish to get more detailed information about DCA\u2019s panelist score-sheets, please attend one of DCA\u2019s free, instructional grant webinars or workshops. Scoring Criteria Used for Small- and Mid-Size Organizations<\/p>\r\n\r\n
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