Registration deadline: March 3
Application deadline: April 1

This category provides up to five years of funding for partnerships that wish to engage in the continuous planning, implementation, and refining of a school-wide arts partnership. Eligible partnerships will have received funding last year in the School-wide Arts Planning category. This category also supports the development of a sustainability plan that will ensure ongoing programming and support for the arts after the life of this grant.

Maximum request amounts for this category are
Year 1: up to $25,000
Year 2: up to $40,000
Year 3: up to $60,000
Year 4: up to $45,000
Year 5: up to $35,000

Grants in this category must be matched dollar for dollar with cash. The school's portion of the match should be no less than 70% of the amount requested from NYSCA.

Applicants who receive five years of consecutive funding in this category are welcome to apply for support in the ESP Dissemination category.

Application Instructions

The on-line application form includes the following questions, and a project budget. Complete the arts in education supplemental form as part of this request. Required support materials are listed below.

Application Narrative Questions

1. Program Description
Briefly describe your partnership.

2. School and Community Served
Briefly describe your partner school, including the community it serves and the demographics of the student population. Indicate the total number of teachers and students at the school, and the number of classes, teachers, and students at each grade level that will be directly served.

3. Arts Instruction
Indicate the number of certified arts teachers in each artistic discipline that are on staff at the school, and how they serve the student population. Which of these teachers will be involved in this partnership and how? Describe how this partnership will enhance or complement sequential arts instruction and other arts programs (including those provided by other arts partners) at the school.

4. Past Relationship
Describe your organization's past relationship with the school and how this year's work will be improved as a result of last year's evaluation efforts.

5. Challenges
What school-based issues and challenges will this partnership help to address?

6. Sustainability
Briefly describe your efforts to insure that the changes you create can be sustained. Identify the program elements you believe must be sustained, the resources these elements will require, and how you will obtain these resources.

7. Goals
Describe the shared goals for the partnership and the specific outcomes you expect to achieve. These goals and outcomes should directly relate to your stated challenges and the evaluation/assessment plan in Question 12.

8. Steering Committee & Implementation Team
Provide the name and title of each member of the Steering Committee and the Implementation Team. If the school has an established arts committee, how does its membership overlap with or complement the Steering Committee?

9. Professional Development
How will professional development be incorporated into this year's plan? List the question(s) you will seek to answer through professional development.

10. Work Plan/Timeline
Provide a work plan in the form of a timeline for this year. If necessary, provide information about activities that have preceded or will follow this plan in order to provide context for the proposed activities.

11. Parental and Community Involvement
Describe how you will build support for this program, and the arts in general, with parents and community members. How will they be involved in the partnership?

12. Evaluation and Assessment
Describe the ways in which you will evaluate the effectiveness of your program and assess changes in teaching and student learning. Provide information on the overall methodology and any tools that will be utilized.

13. Finances
Describe your plans for meeting the expenses of the school-wide program. Include the sources and the dollar amount of the school match.

Support Materials

Support materials must be postmarked or hand-delivered to the Program by the application deadline. If you want support materials returned, provide a self-addressed stamped envelope.

1. A written letter of agreement from the school partner that demonstrates the school's support of the project (monetarily and otherwise) and outlines roles and responsibilities for each partner involved. This letter should appear on the school's letterhead (required)

2. A copy of the relevent sections of the school's Comprehensive Educational Plan (optional)

3. Samples of lesson plans, assessment tools, and student work (required)

4. Resumés of key project personnel (required)