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(See continuation on Schedule O) false false 3131687 1359306 628470 PERFORMING ARTS: Arts Midwest manages seven programs which connect high-quality performing artists to audiences in the Midwest and nationally. Arts Midwest Touring Fund supports professional performing artists touring in our nine states. Arts Midwest World Fest presents international musical ensembles in week-long residencies in smaller Midwest communities, while Caravanserai provides artistic expressions and cultures of Muslim societies to Americans through performing and media-arts residencies. Arts Midwest FolkeFest presents international Scandinavian musical ensembles in week-long residencies in Midwest communities. (See continution on Schedule O) 1367374 1011727 331438 LITERARY ARTS: Arts Midwest manages NEA Big Read on behalf of the National Endowment for the Arts. NEA Big Read is a program which broadens our understanding of our world, our communities, and ourselves through the joy of sharing a good book. NEA Big Read supports organizations across the country in developing community-wide reading programs which encourage reading and participation by diverse audiences. Organizations selected to participate in NEA Big Read receive a grant, access to online training resources and opportunities, and educational and promotional materials designed to support widespread community involvement. (See continuation on Schedule O) 866216 LEARNING INITIATIVES: ArtsLab strengthens the impact of arts organizations in urban and rural communities through leadership and strategy development. ArtsLab is designed to provide intensive professional development training, mentorship, and technical assistance to cultural leaders in the Upper Midwest through peer learning communities typically ranging from six month to two year duration. The program is predominantly focused on strengthening nonprofit arts organizations in Minnesota and its neighboring states of North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa and Wisconsin. 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501(c)(3) 15000 Big Read Museum of Children's Arts 1625 Clay Street Suite 100 Oakland CA 946121564 943086749 501(c)(3) 9000 Big Read National Steinbeck Center 1 Main Street Salinas CA 939013436 770006320 501(c)(3) 14000 Big Read New Haven Int'l Festival of Arts & Ideas 195 Church St 12th Floor New Haven CT 065102009 061444222 501(c)(3) 14000 Big Read Oak Park Public Library 834 Lake Street Oak Park IL 603011314 362943636 170(c)(1) 9000 Big Read Orange County 1501 East Saint Andrew Place Santa Ana CA 927054930 956009280 170(c)(1) 15000 Big Read Paramount Arts Center 1300 Winchester Avenue Ashland KY 411011546 611181883 501(c)(3) 14000 Big Read Pennyroyal Arts Council Inc PO Box 1038 Hopkinsville KY 422411035 310922296 501(c)(3) 14000 Big Read Peoria Public Library 107 Northeast Monroe Street Peoria IL 616021070 376001761 170(c)(1) 9700 Big Read Poughkeepsie Public Library District 93 Market Street Poughkeepsie NY 126014029 141701733 501(c)(3) 17000 Big Read Prime Stage PO Box 99446 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571069546 501(c)(3) 25000 Shakespeare Atlanta Shakespeare Company 499 Peachtree Street Northeast Atlanta GA 303083102 581404045 501(c)(3) 25000 Shakespeare California Shakespeare Theater 701 Heinz Avenue Berkeley CA 947102732 510169452 501(c)(3) 25000 Shakespeare Cape Fear Regional Theatre at Fayetteville 1209 Hay Street Fayetteville NC 283054772 560856992 501(c)(3) 25000 Shakespeare Chicago Shakespeare Theater 800 East Grand Avenue on Navy Pier Chicago IL 606115461 363467607 501(c)(3) 25000 Shakespeare CSC Repertory Ltd 136 East 13th Street New York NY 100035306 237025308 501(c)(3) 25000 Shakespeare Great Lakes Theater Festival Inc 1501 Euclid Avenue Suite 300 Cleveland OH 441152108 340901212 501(c)(3) 25000 Shakespeare Group 1 Acting Company Inc PO Box 898 New York NY 101080898 132759292 501(c)(3) 25000 Shakespeare Guthrie Theater Foundation 818 South 2nd Street Minneapolis MN 554151252 410854160 501(c)(3) 25000 Shakespeare Hartford Stage Company 50 Church Street Hartford CT 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Shakespeare & Company Inc 70 Kemble Street Lenox MA 012402813 042666826 501(c)(3) 25000 Shakespeare Shakespeare Festival St Louis 5715 Elizabeth Avenue St Louis MO 631102801 431815139 501(c)(3) 25000 Shakespeare Shakespeare Theatre 516 8th Street Southeast Washington DC 200032834 521405988 501(c)(3) 25000 Shakespeare Southern Utah University 351 West Center Steet Cedar City UT 847202470 876000481 501(c)(3) 25000 Shakespeare Tennessee Shakespeare Company PO Box 382143 Germantown TN 381832143 262113887 501(c)(3) 25000 Shakespeare The PA Shakespeare Festival at DeSales 2755 Station Avenue Center Valley PA 180349565 232655672 501(c)(3) 25000 Shakespeare The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey 3 Vreeland Road 5950 Golf Course Road Florham Park NJ 079321505 221962163 501(c)(3) 25000 Shakespeare The Warehouse Theatre 37 Augusta Street Greenville SC 296013501 570609773 501(c)(3) 25000 Shakespeare Theater at Monmouth PO Box 385 Monmouth ME 042590385 010287022 501(c)(3) 25000 Shakespeare Trinity Repertory Company 201 Washington Street Providence RI 029033226 222547262 501(c)(3) 25000 Shakespeare Trustees of Amherst College 201 East Capitol Street Southeast Washington DC 200091004 042103542 501(c)(3) 25000 Shakespeare Two River Theatre Company Inc 21 Bridge Avenue Red Bank NJ 077011005 521857757 501(c)(3) 25000 Shakespeare University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 104 Airport Dr Ste 2200 CB 1350 Chapel Hill NC 275995023 566001393 509(a) 25000 Shakespeare Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum PO Box 1222 Topanga CA 902901222 237369475 501(c)(3) 25000 Shakespeare 89 26 PART I, LINE 2 According to our established sub-recipient monitoring policy we have several monitoring methods in place. We require our grantees to submit program information at specific intervals for their award. This includes but is not limited to program calendars, artist contracts, summary reports, and a final report on activities. We conduct a handful of site visits per program and program cycle. We assess risk on the federal programs by requiring registration with SAM.gov. Finally, Arts Midwest staff maintain a regular schedule of communication with each grantee via email, telephone, and grantee web portals. X true true X X X X false false false false false false false false false DAVID J FRAHER PRESIDENT & CEO 183153 20000 4666 13153 13510 234482 SUSAN CHANDLER VICE PRESIDENT 130812 0 0 0 0 0 8280 0 11213 0 150305 0 0 0 PART III, LINE 1 (Continuation from Part III) Arts Midwest works collaboratively with private and public arts supporters throughout Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, and Wisconsin. Arts Midwest designs and develops performing arts touring programs, leadership and strategic planning training, exhibitions, and funding programs that fulfill its mission. PART III, LINE 4A (Continuation from Part III) The Arts Midwest Conference convenes performing artists, artist managers, and presenters engaged in connecting the performing arts to audiences across the central U.S. Shakespeare in American Communities supports U.S. theater companies performing Shakespeare for high school and middle school students. NEA Performing Arts Discovery encourages international touring networks by introducing arts presenters from China and Chile to U.S. performing artists and artforms, primarily at our Arts Midwest Conference. Arts Midwest Touring Fund engages people in meaningful experiences with the fine arts of dance, music, theater, and other performing arts forms. The program provides financial support to presenting organizations in the Midwest. Funded engagements feature public performances and community engagement activities by professional touring artists that reach underserved audiences and foster exchanges between artists and Midwest communities. During the 2017-2018 funding season, Arts Midwest Touring Fund awarded over $360,000 to 148 presenting organizations across the nine-state Midwest region. Arts Midwest World Fest connects small and mid-sized Midwestern communities to world cultures through week-long residencies with global performers. Ensembles from China (Anda Union), South Africa/Canada (Lorraine Klaasen Ensemble), and Quebec (Le Vent Du Nord) are conducting week-long residencies consisting of public concerts, school concerts, and outreach activities in the following nine Midwest communities: Brookings, SD; Wahpeton, ND; Thief River Falls, MN; Rhinelander, WI; Forest City, IA; Lebanon, IL; Wilmington, OH; Adrian, MI; and Plymouth, IN. The program provides arts enrichment while inspiring multicultural outreach, awareness, and appreciation. In each two year cycle, we serve approximately 90,000 students and 15,000 adults through approximately 45 performances and 300 educational activities. Caravanserai: A Place Where Cultures Meet creates new pathways for Americans to experience the diversity of contemporary Muslim artistic expressions by introducing U.S. audiences to exciting and dynamic Muslim performing artists. The 2015-2016 Caravanserai: American Voices season featured contemporary Muslim American musical expressions shared by Palestinian-American multi-instrumentalist Ronnie Malley, Indian-American soul-singer Zeshan Bagewadi, popular hip-hop/soul duo The Reminders, hip-hop dance troupe MaMa2 and DJ Man-O-Wax. In September 2016, Caravanserai concluded its programming with a professional development session, marketplace booth and independent showcase featuring these artists at the 2016 Arts Midwest Conference in Milwaukee, WI. The grant period of support for the program ended on September 30, 2016 and the final program report was submitted to its primary funder, Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art, in November 2016. Caravanserai is now a past program of Arts Midwest. The Arts Midwest Conference is the preeminent booking and educational conference for the Midwest performing arts industry. The 29th Annual Conference was held in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, September 13-16, 2016; it served 1,075 performing artists, managers, and agents; performing arts presenters/venues; and arts administrators from 46 states and the District of Columbia, six Canadian provinces, and the countries of Chile, China, Brazil, and France. Each year the four-day Arts Midwest Conference provides opportunities to network, learn, and experience live performing arts. Arts Midwest continues to manage Shakespeare in American Communities, which supports theater companies bringing professional productions of Shakespeare to high school and middle school students across the country. In 2017-2018, this national program of the National Endowment for the Arts awarded $1 million in grants to 40 nonprofit, professional theater companies across the nation to perform the works of William Shakespeare for students. Each of the participating theater companies will present productions of Shakespeare plays to students from 10 or more schools. Accompanying educational activities include in-school residencies, workshops, and post-performance discussions. Through support from the National Endowment for the Arts, the NEA Performing Arts Discovery builds and sustains international arts networks and highlights the rich diversity of the U.S. performing arts market. The program seeks to share exceptional performers who may be unfamiliar to foreign presenters, provide a forum for collaboration between cultural organizations, and ultimately expand the global opportunities for performing artists from across the United States. In pursuit of this goal, the NEA Performing Arts Discovery brings booking representatives and leaders from global performing arts venues to the annual Arts Midwest Conference. International delegates receive a special orientation before participating fully in Conference programming, including visiting the exhibit hall, joining networking events, and attending performance showcases. After the Conference, Arts Midwest also arranges an in-depth forum on a local community with presentations by local experts, meetings with cultural leaders, studio and venue visits, and performances by local ensembles. In 2016, the NEA Performing Arts Discovery hosted two delegates from Brazil, five delegates from Chile, five delegates from China. Arts Midwest Folkefest presents traditional music ensembles from Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, and Iceland for intensive, week-long residencies that feature public performances and educational activities for all ages and levels of musical experience. The program visits small and mid sized communities in six Midwestern states-North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, all of which experienced a significant influx of Scandinavian immigrants during the 1800s and 1900s. The program seeks to deepen awareness of the Nordic traditions, heritage, and history of the Upper Midwest and foster understanding and appreciation for global cultures. In 2016, Arts Midwest began research and planning on artists and communities for the 20172019 Arts Midwest Folkefest. PART III, LINE 4B (Continuation from Part III) Each community event lasts approximately one month and includes a kick-off event to launch the program locally, ideally attended by the mayor and other local luminaries; major events devoted specifically to the book (e.g. panel discussions and author reading); events using the book as a point of departure (e.g. film screenings and theatrical readings); and book discussions in diverse locations and aimed at a wide range of audiences. In 2016-2017, 77 nonprofit organizations (including arts organizations, universities, libraries, and municipalities) representing 26 states received grants totaling $1,012,700 to host Big Read programs between September 2016 and June 2017. Each community focused on one of 27 featured books, which included such well known titles as "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston, "The Grapes of Wrath" by John Steinbeck, "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury, and the stories and poems of Edgar Allan Poe. PART III, LINE 4C (Continuation from Part III) ArtsLab is rooted in the belief that the arts are essential to a Midwest filled with vibrant communities, competitive industries, and strong economies. Creating Connection is a national communications and engagement initiative driven by a goal of making arts and culture a more recognized, valued, and expected part of everyday life. The program catalyzes social change around the way people support, advocate for, and expect creativity in their lives by conducting research on existing, deeply held public values, and pursuing communications strategies that demonstrate the connection between those values and arts, culture, and creative expression. Our activities include sharing our findings and recommendations at national conferences, providing trainings to arts organizations and community leaders across the country, and developing resources to guide those leaders in identifying and engaging new stakeholders and delivering creative experiences that are rooted in community values. PART VI, SECTION A, LINE 3 THE ORGANIZATION CONTRACTS WITH CLIFTONLARSONALLEN, LLP, AN ACCOUNTING FIRM, TO PROVIDE FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT SERVICES. DURING FY 2017, THE ORGANIZATION PAID $55,633 FOR THESE SERVICES. PART VI, SECTION A, LINE 6 THE MEMBERS OF THE ORGANIZATION ARE NON-VOTING AND CONSIST OF THOSE INTERESTED IN THE GOALS AND PURPOSES OF THE CORPORATION. MEMBERSHIP IS ATTAINED UPON APPLICATION. PART VI, SECTION B, LINE 11B A DETAILED REVIEW WAS CONDUCTED BY THE ORGANIZATION'S PRESIDENT & CEO AND BY THE TREASURER. THE FULL BOARD CONDUCTED A FINAL REVIEW AND APPROVAL OF THE RETURN PRIOR TO FILING. PART VI, SECTION B, LINE 12C Each director, officer, key employee and member of a committee with board delegated powers shall complete and sign a conflicts of interest policy annual statement at the time of his or her initial election or appointment and annually thereafter. An interested person may make a presentation at the board or committee meeting regarding the proposed transaction or arrangement, but after such presentation, there interested person shall leave the meeting during the discussion of, and the vote on, the proposed transaction or arrangement that results in the conflict of interest. Additionally (1) the chairperson of the board (or committee) shall, if appropriate, appoint a disinterested person or committee to investigate alternatives to the proposed transaction or arrangement (2) after exercising due diligence, the board (or committee) shall determine whether the organization can obtain a move advantageous transaction or arrangement with reasonable efforts from a person or entity that would not give rise to a conflict of interest (3) If a more advantageous transaction or arrangement is not reasonable attainable under the circumstances that would not give rise to a conflict of interest, the board (or committee) shall determine by a majority vote of the disinterested directors (or committee members), whether the transaction or arrangement is in the organizations best interest and for its own benefit and whether the transaction is fair and reasonable to the organization and shall make its decision as to whether to enter into the transaction or arrangement in conformity with such determination. Detailed minutes of board of committee meetings are maintained to document all such situations. PART VI, SECTION B, LINE 15A The executive committee sets compensation for the president & CEO. The executive committee uses the following procedures to set the compensation of the president & CEO (1) for the purpose of setting the president & CEOs compensation, the executive committee shall be made up entirely of individuals who do not have a conflict of interest with respect to the compensation arrangement (2) the executive committee obtains and relies upon appropriate data as to comparability prior to making its determination regarding the compensation of the president & CEO. Appropriate comparability data includes compensation levels paid by organizations of similar size and complexity nationally, regionally and locally, and current compensation surveys. Detailed documents are maintained of all deliberations and decisions. The process of determining the compensation of the president & CEO last included review and approval by independent persons, comparability data and contemporaneous substantiation in 2016. The executive committee delegates to the president & CEO the authority to set compensation for other executives. PART VI, SECTION C, LINE 19 The organization does not make its governing documents or conflict of interest policy available to the public. The organizations financial statements are made available to the public through the Minnesota Attorney Generals office. FORM 990 PART IX LINE 11G DESCRIPTION:OTHER PROFESSIONAL FEES TOTAL FEES:766301