Arts & Education Council Of Greater St Louis

Programs: Allocations and grants - the council awarded grants to 55 agenciesfor performing/visual arts and arts education services in the16 county bi-state area of st. Louis.

see schedule oincludes indirect expenditures which are necessary to maintain thecouncil's support of the arts and provide arts-related informationto the public. This includes the council's happenings newsletterthat is produced bi-monthly and has a circulation of approximately10,000, is on the council's website, and is sent electronically. The council also does a weekly e-blast called "know and go" toapproximately 5,600 members which promotes the programs and eventshosted by grantees in the upcoming week. The council's websitepromotes the arts and education council, as well as its granteesand their programs, year round. The site includes a calendarfunction which allows users to create and print an individualizeditinerary for the council's arts card discounted events. Thisenhances the presence of grantee organizations, and the website iscomplete with interactive components such as images, video, andsocial media. The council launched the arts leadership and management academy with the goal of enhancing st. Louis arts and cultural organizations through a series of management workshops. The academy is home to the executive directors' roundtable, a professionally-led program targeted at executive directors of arts and cultural organizations. Arts marketers was created in 2011, to provide added professional support for arts marketing professionals working at the council's grant recipient organizations. In november 2013, the council launched power2give. Org, an online crowdfunding site. The site allows cultural organizations located in the st. Louis bi-state area to post and promote projects in need of funding and invites donors to contribute directly to the projects that are most intriguing to them. Organizations that participate are vetted through the council and must have obtained a 2013 secretary of state (missouri or illinois) certification of good standing, post projects that are arts and cultural based, and have a cost less than $10,000.

the council provides office space, state-of-the-art technology,and rehearsal and performance space for 16 nonprofit organizationsin the centene center for the arts and education (the center), aunique arts incubator located in grand center. The councilprovides computer equipment, an information technology network,telephone and internet services, and various otheroccupancy-related services to the tenants of the center at a ratesubstantially below the actual costs incurred for such items andservices by the council.