Art Feeds believes all children are imaginative, curious, creative, innovative and our greatest resource. To fuel these valuable skills, Art Feeds implements creative and expressive programming in partnership with schools and children’s organizations.

This application is for the 2023-2024 school year. 
Art Feeds Community Assist is designed to provide free programming for schools that lack the financial resources to purchase Art Feeds training  and curriculum outright. Art Feeds Community Assist will give the school or organization an opportunity to receive training on the Art Feeds Method and with a Creative Arts Therapist, access to curriculum through one free year of Art Feeds Online (a curriculum site with 400+ lessons), ongoing support from Art Feeds staff throughout the year and supplies to implement the lessons. 

The amount of programming awarded is contingent upon annual fundraisers and grants received by Art Feeds. This application allows our Board of Directors to discern the need and compatibility of the school or children’s organizations that wish to receive programming. The application is open year round, but the application deadline is 11:59 pm CST November 19th, 2022. If applicants are chosen for phase 2 of the process, the applicant will be asked to participate in an interview in November. Selections will be announced in January. All recipients of Art Feeds Community Assist will get free access to Art Feeds Online in the 2023-2024 school year with along with training, supplies, and ongoing support.

Scoring: To assess initial scoring, we’ve developed a scoring protocol that ranks each school or org by criteria. Each criteria will be scored 1 through 5 for a total potential score of 15. Each score is based on the following definition:

1= Does not meet criteria
2= Might meet criteria
3=Meets criteria
4=Strongly meets criteria
5= Very strongly meets criteria

The tenants considered by our Board of Directors are Community Need, Mission Alignment and Staff Investment.

Community Need
Does the applicant have a high need community of students Art Feeds can serve well? Does the applicant serve a diverse and/or underserved group of students? Will our expressive and creative programming make a significant impact?


Mission Alignment
Does the school or children’s organization have values and culture that aligns with Art Feeds mission and values? Will this alignment create program fidelity?

Staff Investment
 Does the school or children’s org staff express a clear commitment to Art Feeds and implementing the programming? Is the school or organization leadership invested in the use of this program? 

We strongly suggest you save all of your answers to each question in a separate word document for your records. If you have any questions while you fill our the application, please email our CEO Meg Bourne at meg@artfeeds.org. We look forward to learning more about your work! 

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* 1. Representative Name:

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* 2. Representative's Email (you or the person leading up this project):

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* 3. Representative's Phone Number (you or the person leading up this project xxx-xxx-xxxx):

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* 4. Name of School or Children’s Organization:

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* 5. Representative’s Role:

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* 6. Location (Street, City, State, Zip):

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* 7. Number of Students: (*Note, this number is important as we create all of our budgets based on this number, please consider the amount of children you wish to receive art packs for in the school year) 

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* 8. Age range(s):

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* 9. Please choose the programming you wish to receive (please choose the curriculum that would most impact your student/client population):

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* 10. Please provide the following percentages of your student population:

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* 11. What are some of the challenges faced by students in your school or children's organization? (500 word limit)

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* 12. How will Art Feeds programming be a resource for this specific need? (500 word limit) 

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* 13. Please explain the need for requesting the programming for free- how would this affect your budget and your resources if this was not given for free? (250 word limit) 

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* 14. Please tell us your school or organizational Mission (250 word limit)

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* 15. How does your mission align with Art Feeds Mission? (500 word limit)

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* 16. In your words, what do you think Art Feeds is? (250 word limit)

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* 17. How did you find out about us? (150 word limit)

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* 18. Tell us why you believe children are valuable (500 word limit)

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* 19. Describe the school or organizational culture (250 word limit)

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* 20. What values are most important to instill in your students? (250 word limit)

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* 21. How does the school or organization activate these values? (250 word limit)

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* 22. Describe when Art Feeds curriculum would be implemented. I.e. during a certain class or time period, as a part of art class, normal instructional time, at what rate of consistency, with what students, etc. (250 word limit)

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* 23. Why are creativity and expression an important resource for your students? (250 word limit)

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* 24. Who will implement the curriculum? Teachers, volunteer base, staff, etc. please explain (250 word limit)

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* 25. Please provide the names of staff and their role(s)

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* 26. If you will be using volunteers, please describe your volunteer base (250 limit) *please only answer if volunteers will be involved

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* 27. If a band of zombies attacked, what would the staff do? (250 word limit)

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* 28. For Mural Curriculum Only- What are your existing or potential connections with businesses willing to have a mural on their building in your community?

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* 29. For Mural Curriculum Only- Identify other arts or children’s organizations in the area.

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* 30. For Mural Curriculum Only- How is Art Feeds programming different?

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* 31. For Mural Curriculum Only- Are the organizations open to collaboration?

Thank you for completing this application! We strongly suggest that you save all of these answers in a word document for your records. The applications will reviewed after the November 5th deadline, you can expect outreach following this date. If you have any questions or would like to submit further materials, please email to meg@artfeeds.org. We appreciate the work you are doing for children and are honored that you are looking to Art Feeds to be a part of that work! 

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