2021-08-12T17:33:47-05:00 2020-09-30 320530003 QUIGLEY & MIRON 3550 WILSHIRE BLVD 1660 LOS ANGELES CA 90010 990 2019-10-01 942733935 California Alliance for Arts Education CALI 6265789315 85 South Grand Avenue Pasadena CA 91105 Thomas DeCaigny Executive Director 6265789315 2021-08-12 ARMEN GRIGORIAN P01582463 2136393550 2019 2022-09-23 18:48:47Z Thomas DeCaigny 85 South Grand Avenue Pasadena CA 91105 1887784 0 X www.artsed411.org X 1988 CA To promote, support, and advocate for visual and performing arts education in California. 8 8 8 32 0 0 1978086 1451176 78308 36900 2778 3576 447 5412 2059619 1497064 38490 36000 0 0 629738 698794 0 0 61956 888454 803864 1556682 1538658 502937 -41594 1764036 1737021 128928 143507 1635108 1593514 X The Alliance's mission is to advocate for high quality arts education for all students by providing policy expertise and by mobilizing a statewide network of advocates and allied partners.The California Alliance for Arts Education (Alliance) is in its fifth decade of working to build a brighter future for our state by making the arts a core part of every child's quality education. A statewide leader and convener, the Alliance galvanizes California's abundance of arts and culture experts to advocate for quality arts education for all students. By collaborating effectively with the state's leading education and parent engagement agencies, and providing an anchor for policy expertise at the state and local levels, the Alliance is the leader in promoting the arts in schools and enriching the lives of children, families, and communities. 0 0 765572 36000 36900 The California Alliance for Arts Education is pleased to present a report on our major program accomplishments and highlights. During fiscal year 2020, the Alliance produced a successful year of programming that reached over 1,000 advocates, we created multiple new advocacy tools and we built partnerships that will help us to reach and activate new audiences. In addition, the Alliance created a Racial Equity Strategic Plan which will guide all aspects of our work and establishes geographic priority areas for our programming. We recognize that within the current public pre-K-12 education system there is inequitable access to the arts. Particularly, African American, Latinx and Indigenous students experience significant barriers to access, participation and success in arts learning that are directly linked to pervasive racial inequities in our educational system. Using enrollment data provided by the California Department of Education, we identified 19 counties with significant populations of African American, Indigenous and Latinx students and will focus our programming on these counties. Arts Now CampaignThe Alliance has made great strides in further developing the Arts Now Campaign. The Campaign supports the development of district and county arts plans through the Arts Now Planning Initiative, provides education about how districts can use arts strategies to improve outcomes for students through the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) and the Title I program, supports community members to advocate for arts education through Arts Now Communities, and promotes student voices in school decision-making and arts education advocacy. On May 27th, the Alliance, in collaboration with Arts for LA, hosted the "COVID-19 & Local Arts Education Advocacy Webinar." The online training provided advocates with the concrete tools necessary to ensure local decision makers harness the full power of arts education in responding to the COVID-19 crisis. The session covered strategies for engaging local school board members, responding to proposed budget cuts, and promising practices for amplifying student voices. We were very pleased with the attendance for this webinar: 304 individuals joined the live Zoom session. A recording of the training, as well as all the resources mentioned, were sent out to all registrants the following day and posted on our website at artsed411.org/toolkit. During the webinar, the Alliance released a new suite of tools to support local arts education advocates. The toolkit includes: " Talking points for public comment period during school board meetings " Tips for preparing and presenting effective public comment" Strategies for engaging youth voice in advocacy" Social media tips for successful advocacy " Template letter to school board members " Sample language for an op-ed in local newspapers and newslettersThe resources in the toolkit are designed for "beginner" advocates who are responding to the possibility of funding shortfalls and budget cuts in their district. We created the resources in response to requests for tools and actions items for new advocates to pick up and use without any training. In order to expand access to new advocates, we translated each of the six resources into Spanish. Arts Now CommunitiesThe Arts Now Communities program is a statewide network of regional, district, and county advocacy groups who receive strategic coaching, training, communications support, and stipends from the Alliance to pursue Arts Now Campaign objectives. Each year, the Alliance hosts an Arts Now Leadership Institute, which gathers members of our Arts Now Communities from across the state to receive professional development, share their success stories and challenges, and help build a stronger statewide network. This year, the Alliance hosted the Arts Now Leadership Institute virtually and invited Arts Now Leaders to include additional members of their teams to join the training. The Arts Now Leadership Institute included the following webinars in FY20:" Sept. 2nd: Welcome to the Arts Now Campaign " Sept. 10th: Coalition Communications and the Virtual Launch Event " Sept. 14th: Arts Providers and Teaching Artists in a New Paradigm" Sept. 16th: Racial Equity and Arts Ed" Sept. 24th: Racial Equity and Action Planning " Sept. 30th: Student Role and Participation in AdvocacyWe have seen how the shift to a virtual platform draws in new audiences as a result of increased accessibility to our programs. Over 350 advocates attended the Leadership Institute sessions. Arts Now Planning InitiativeThe Arts Now Planning Initiative offers an opportunity for California school districts and counties to complete a planning process using the best tools available: the Insider's Guide to Arts Education Planning, high caliber facilitation and strategic coaching assistance. Based on the needs of a district or county, the Alliance guides the planning team through a strategic planning process to create a visionary, sustainable arts education plan to increase the quality, quantity and equity of arts education in schools. During FY20, the Alliance completed Strategic Arts Plans in Nevada County, Mariposa County, Imperial County, Riverside County, Hollister USD and Santa Ana USD. For each plan, the Alliance coach supported the planning team to articulate a vision for the arts, identify strengths and challenges, determine strategic directions, and finally develop a budgeted and calendared implementation plan. On September 30 and October 1, 2020, the Alliance and the California County Superintendents Educational Services Association (CCSESA) Arts Initiative co-hosted an interactive workshop that supported educational leaders facing a new reality that includes distance learning, budget challenges and a dramatic shift in expectations. Presenters introduced highly effective tools from the Insider's Guide to Arts Education Planning to help leaders address trends collaboratively and engage in meaningful dialogue that leads to concrete actions and priorities.Student Voices CampaignThe 2020 Student Voices Campaign had a successful year of student advocacy with videos submitted by 96 students from across California. Due to the pandemic, the in-person award ceremony for the campaign was cancelled but we were still able to provide all winners and finalists with prizes. In FY20, program staff was able to have the Student Voices Campaign featured as a "challenge" activity at the GRID Summit 2020. The GRID was a three-day digital festival celebrating creativity and attended by over 2,000 students. The virtual, live-streamed summit gave students ages 13-18 an opportunity to explore their creative interests and passions. Through workshops, industry spotlights and performances, the GRID provided a pathway to personal transformation and career preparation for young people by expanding their understanding of why creativity is essential for the future job market and particularly relevant to the high-tech and creative economies. We anticipate that the partnership with the GRID will significantly increase the participation in the 2021 Student Voices Campaign. Policy CouncilSince 2010, the Policy Council has successfully grown into its role as a critical center for statewide policy conversations. We have approximately 40 organizations on the Council and we host two meetings per year - rotating between Northern and Southern California - which provide a diverse and engaging forum for leaders from education, business, arts, and parent organizations. On February 6, 2020, the Policy Council met in Sacramento at the California Teachers Association. This meeting, led by Alliance Board Chair Paul Richman, included updates on the Alliance's work with the ACLU, legislative updates from the Alliance's lobbyist and a session during which the members provided input on the Alliance's Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Statement. In addition, there were presentations about early childhood education and the arts, the "Schools and Communities First" ballot measure, the Dance and Theatre Credential workgroup, as well as a panel discussion about incarcerated youth and the arts. Due to COVID-19, on June 4, 2020, the Alliance hosted its first-ever virtual Policy Council meeting. Using the videoconference platform Zoom, the members gathered for a discussion of the Alliance's Racial Equity Statement of Purpose (formerly named a Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Statement), to discuss the work of the ACLU, to hear updates on the Alliance's local advocacy strategy and hear from the Alliance's lobbyist Kathy Lynch. In addition, the second half of the meeting was devoted to establishing the 2020-2021 strategic priorities for the Alliance and discussion of the November 2020 ballot. 421748 The Alliance acts as the fiscal sponsor for CreateCA, an unincorporated nonprofit association and coalition of five organizations: the Alliance, the California Department of Education, the California Arts Council, the California PTA, and the California County Superintendents Educational Services Association. 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Description: FOUNDATION GRANT Date: 09/30/19 Amount: 778000. Description: FOUNDATION GRANT Date: 09/30/20 Amount: 390000. RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED 35203 35203 1152117 1187320 193732 48433 0 0 195056 207581 195821 193732 792190 1188285 36412 38399 35829 35203 145843 48764 51895 48955 48433 198047 297071 1109 1109 16423 11439 4984 2574 2574 0 4984 X Part X, Line 2: Accounting standards require an organization to evaluate its tax positions and provide for a liability for any positions that would not be considered "more likely than not" to be upheld under a tax authority examination. Management has evaluated its tax positions and has concluded that a provision for a tax liability is not necessary at September 30, 2020. Generally, the Alliance's information returns remain open for examination for a period of three (federal) or four (state of California) years from the date of filing. 0 VARIOUS ORGANIZATIONS 5000 85 SOUTH GRAND AVE PASADENA CA 91105 942733935 501(C)(3) 36000 Grant to support the local leader's arts education advocacy action plan for the year. Funds are used to host events, create assessment tools and print advocacy materials such as handouts for school board members and flyers for parents and community members. X 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Joseph Landon Executive Director through 12/19 132363 0 0 0 0 0 6693 0 29542 0 168598 0 0 0 SUBSEQUENT EVENTS The Alliance is in the process of completing a merger with Create CA. The merged organization will formalize itself under CAAE's 501(c)(3) status and designation, and will rename itself Create CA. The merger is expected to be completed by July 1, 2021. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, line 11b The draft Form 990 is distributed electronically to The Board, who formally votes to approve it prior to filing. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, line 12c Board members sign a conflict of interest policy and are required to update it annually. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, line 15 Comparability data is used to determine compensation of the organization's officers. Form 990, Part VI, Section C, line 19 The organization's governing documents are available upon request. Form 990, Part IX, line 11g Professional Fees: Program service expenses 346. Management and general expenses 37,968. Fundraising expenses 971. Total expenses 39,285. Contracted Services: Program service expenses 486,150. Management and general expenses 0. Fundraising expenses 0. Total expenses 486,150. ANC Managers & Coordinators: Program service expenses 107,900. Management and general expenses 0. Fundraising expenses 0. Total expenses 107,900. Form 990, Part XII, Line 2c: The Board Of Directors is responsible for the oversight of the review of the financial statements and selection of an independent accountant. This process is unchanged from the prior year.