26 juillet 2021<\/p>\n
Salutations \u00e0 la communaut\u00e9 WESTAF :<\/span><\/p>\n Wowza \u2014 already time for another biweekly! So much outstanding activity in all corners of the organization these past few weeks. This time of the year, we\u2019re deep in planning for FY22, and the Mackenzie Scott gift we received recently has added a wonderful, if complex, dimension to our thinking. In addition to the planning that we\u2019ll be doing in various upcoming meetings and retreats (see below),<\/span> this article in the Chronicle of Philanthropy<\/span><\/a> by Bianca Casanova Anderson has also kept us grounded and inspired. Additionally, we\u2019ve been thinking a lot about mission-aligned investing and what that means to our organizational values, and we have also drawn valuable direction from<\/span> this 2018 Grantmakers in the Arts blog post<\/span><\/a> about their investing journey. Some more comings-and-goings at WESTAF as well. We\u2019re thrilled to have some new WESTAFers to the SRI team (but we\u2019re holding off on the official welcome for now until they begin the week of August 2 \u2014 more below!). We\u2019re also excited to welcome Tim Carmichael to the ZAPP coordinator role, as well Raymond Wilson and Sara Graydon, who will start this week in part-time roles that provide customer support to CaFE and ZAPP customers. Welcome, Tim, Raymond, and Sara; we\u2019re so glad to have you! I\u2019m kicking off this biweekly, though, with news of a departure from the leadership team:<\/span><\/p>\n ADAM SESTOAKS, DIRECTEUR DE LA TECHNOLOGIE ET DE L'INNOVATION, DIT ADIEU \u00c0 WESTAF (CG)<\/b> ANNONCE DES PARTENAIRES ET DES INTERVENANTS DU SOMMET DE LA VITALIT\u00c9 CR\u00c9ATIVE ET DES INSCRIPTIONS (DH)<\/b> Quatorze conf\u00e9renciers, pan\u00e9listes et animateurs sont en attente d'invitation. 57% des conf\u00e9renciers, pan\u00e9listes et animateurs invit\u00e9s sont des BIPOC et 66% sont des femmes. Bient\u00f4t, l'\u00e9quipe Convenings, dirig\u00e9e par Leah Horn, lancera l'inscription \u00e0 l'\u00e9v\u00e9nement via le site Aventri construit par Natalie Scherlong. Kelly Ernst a fourni une orientation de conception pour le d\u00e9veloppement de l'identit\u00e9 visuelle de la r\u00e9union. Sam Ortega a d\u00e9velopp\u00e9 une strat\u00e9gie de m\u00e9dias sociaux pour la conf\u00e9rence. Moana HoChing m\u00e8ne des recherches de fond pour le document de pr\u00e9-conf\u00e9rence et organise les ressources et les documents \u00e9crits pour la conf\u00e9rence. David \u00e9labore l'ordre du jour de la conf\u00e9rence, invite et confirme les conf\u00e9renciers, \u00e9tablit une liste d'invitations prioritaires de leaders d'opinion, r\u00e9dige le document de pr\u00e9-conf\u00e9rence et planifie des r\u00e9unions avec chaque partenaire de la conf\u00e9rence et panel dans les semaines \u00e0 venir en \u00e9troite collaboration avec le codirecteur du sommet, Randy Engstrom.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n SOMMET DES INDUSTRIES CR\u00c9ATIVES DU COLORADO : SESSION SUR LES ARTS RURAUX CONFIRM\u00c9E (DH)<\/b> INVITATION AU DISCOURS PRINCIPAL DU SOMMET DE L'\u00c9CONOMIE CR\u00c9ATIVE DE GREENSBORO (DH)<\/b> WESTAF PARTNERS, MID-AMERICA ARTS ALLIANCE, INSPIRE WASHINGTON ET CULTURAL ADVOCACY COALITION OF OREGON ONT \u00c9T\u00c9 INVIT\u00c9S AU SEIN DU CULTURAL ADVOCACY GROUP (DH)<\/b> \u00a0<\/span>LES D\u00c9FENSEURS DES ARTS OCCIDENTAUX ONT OBTENU \u00c0 CE JOUR PLUS DE 14830 000 000 DE FINANCEMENT DE L'\u00c9TAT POUR LE SECTEUR DES ARTS ET DE LA CULTURE (DH)<\/b> RESPONSABLE DE LA RECHERCHE EN POLITIQUES PUBLIQUES ET PLAIDOYER (DH)<\/b> MISE \u00c0 JOUR DE LA DEMANDE : FONDS DU PLAN DE SAUVETAGE AM\u00c9RICAIN DE WESTAF (ARP) POUR LES ORGANISATIONS (AK)<\/b>\u00a0<\/span> NOMINATIONS DES PAN\u00c9LISTES : FONDS DU PLAN DE SAUVETAGE AM\u00c9RICAIN DE WESTAF (ARP) POUR LES ORGANISATIONS (AK)<\/b>\u00a0<\/span> RECHERCHE DE GESTIONNAIRES ISR TERMIN\u00c9E (AK)<\/b> PROCHAINES CONGR\u00c8S LRT, RAO ET BOT (CG)<\/b> COLLECTE DE FONDS POUR LA FONDATION (CG)<\/b> FINANCES ET ADMINISTRATION (AH)<\/b> MARKETING (LH)<\/b> COMMUNICATIONS (LH)<\/b> COHORTES DE PLANIFICATION STRAT\u00c9GIQUE (CGREEN)<\/b> TECHNOLOGIE (AS)<\/b> AFFAIRES G\u00c9N\u00c9RALES (CV)<\/b>
\nWe\u2019re saddened to report that Adam Sestokas, director of technology and innovation, will be leaving WESTAF. Adam\u2019s last day will be Thursday, August 12. Since arriving at WESTAF in March 2013, Adam successfully migrated the organization to Amazon Web Services (AWS) and led the change to Atlassian\u2019s technology-management ecosystem. Adam completely transformed and stabilized the technology infrastructure of our business platforms and the IT infrastructure of the organization as a whole. We all have loved watching Adam and his partner Trish become such wonderful parents to their son Ryder (who is beyond adorable), and we\u2019re really going to miss the Sestokas family in our WESTAF community. Adam has big plans, and his wide range of technical competencies and experiences make him an extremely attractive and highly sought-after prospect within the technology sector, so watch out, world! Our search for Adam\u2019s successor has already begun, but in the meantime, please join me in wishing him all the very best in the next chapter of an illustrious career! Read more about Adam <\/span>ici<\/span><\/a>, and see below for more updates from the Technology department. Thanks for everything you have done for WESTAF, Adam!<\/span><\/p>\n
\nLes partenaires, intervenants, animateurs et pan\u00e9listes suivants ont \u00e9t\u00e9 confirm\u00e9s pour le Creative Vitality Summit :<\/span><\/p>\n\n
\nDavid will be moderating a case study workshop \u201cArts and the Rural West – Regional trends and Colorado leadership\u201d with Mandy Ritter, program manager of the Sterling Creative District, and Richard Saxton, founder and director of <\/span>M12 Studio<\/span><\/a> (an artists collective), at the Creative Industries Summit organized by Colorado Creative Industries in October. Both Ritter and Saxton are creative entrepreneurs who have gained local, statewide, and national recognition for their work to advance arts, culture, and creativity in rural communities. Ritter is an artist and creative entrepreneur who has designed and managed a downtown beautification grant learning the ins and outs of community projects. Ritter has also been a part of the Sterling Creatives Cooperative and the Creative District from their early planning stages. The M12 Collective founded by Saxton\u00a0 is an interdisciplinary group based on Colorado\u2019s American High Plains that creates context-based art works, research projects, and education programs. M12 is known for groundbreaking and award-winning creative projects that explore the aesthetics of rural cultures and landscapes.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
\nFollowing a conversation with Laura Way, executive director of Arts Greensboro and Nate McGaha, executive director, Arts North Carolina in May, David has been invited as a keynote speaker for a creative industries summit in October\/November being organized by this local arts agency and a number of university partners in North Carolina\u2019s Triad. Inspired by the NASAA Creative Economies and Economic Recovery report and conversations with WESTAF, Laura has developed <\/span>an advocacy platform for a $7.5 million arts and culture recovery investment in the Triad.\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n
\nDavid et ses coll\u00e8gues de la CAG, Heather Noonan et Najean Lee, de la League of American Orchestras, ont invit\u00e9 Manny Cawaling, copr\u00e9sident de la WAAN, et Margaret Keough, directrice du marketing et des communications de la Mid-America Arts Alliance, au sein de la CAG. \u00c0 la suite de discussions initi\u00e9es par la WESTAF sur l'\u00e9largissement du groupe pour inclure les d\u00e9fenseurs des arts des \u00c9tats, Americans for the Arts a lanc\u00e9 une invitation au State Arts Action Network pour que d'autres groupes de d\u00e9fense des arts des \u00c9tats se joignent \u00e0 lui. Sue Hildick, directrice ex\u00e9cutive de la Cultural Advocacy Coalition of Oregon, Nate McGaha, directeur ex\u00e9cutif d'Arts North Carolina, Quanice Floyd, directrice ex\u00e9cutive d'Arts Education in Maryland Schools, Anne Katz, directrice ex\u00e9cutive d'Arts Wisconsin et Matthew Henry, directeur ex\u00e9cutif d'Arts Council of Central Louisiana \/ Louisiana Citizens for Culture, se sont manifest\u00e9s. Ann S Graham, directrice ex\u00e9cutive de Texans for the Arts, rejoint \u00e9galement le groupe aux c\u00f4t\u00e9s de Claire Rice, directrice ex\u00e9cutive d'Arts Alliance Illinois et Julie Baker, directrice ex\u00e9cutive de California Arts Advocates, qui avaient \u00e9t\u00e9 pr\u00e9c\u00e9demment invit\u00e9es par la WESTAF. Cette expansion de l\u2019adh\u00e9sion au CAG pour inclure les d\u00e9fenseurs des arts des \u00c9tats repr\u00e9sente une nouvelle direction pour le groupe et promet d\u2019\u00eatre transformatrice.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
\nAvec un projet de loi budg\u00e9taire r\u00e9cemment sign\u00e9 par le gouverneur Newsom de Californie, qui pr\u00e9voyait des investissements de 14,6 milliards de livres sterling dans des programmes artistiques et culturels pour soutenir la reprise du secteur, le total des fonds de secours et de relance de l'\u00c9tat obtenus par les d\u00e9fenseurs des arts dans l'Ouest est d\u00e9sormais estim\u00e9 \u00e0 plus de 14,83 milliards de livres sterling. (Ce chiffre n'inclut pas le nouveau programme immobilier cr\u00e9atif de 14,65 milliards de livres sterling annonc\u00e9 au Colorado.) Nos partenaires, Californians for the Arts et California Arts Advocates, ont jou\u00e9 un r\u00f4le d\u00e9terminant dans le niveau d'investissement sans pr\u00e9c\u00e9dent en Californie dans le cadre d'une coalition d'organisations de d\u00e9fense des arts et de la culture.<\/span><\/p>\n
\nFollowing the announcement of the new Manager of Public Policy and Advocacy position on 7\/14, WESTAF has already received 72 applications for the position. The application deadline is 8\/20\/21. Please share <\/span>the job posting<\/span><\/a> with your networks if you know of people who may be interested in applying. This position is partially funded by the M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust over the next three years.<\/span><\/p>\n
\nLes candidatures pour le programme WESTARP ont \u00e9t\u00e9 cl\u00f4tur\u00e9es le jeudi 15 juillet. Voici quelques informations sur les candidatures :<\/span><\/p>\n\n
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\nWESTAF has received more than 90 nominations for its upcoming review panels for the<\/span> Fonds du Plan de sauvetage am\u00e9ricain (ARP) pour les organisations<\/span><\/a>. Panels will take place on August 23 – 26, with a total of four panels and each panelist reviewing approximately 75 applications. Panelists will receive a stipend of $750 each, and WESTAF anticipates approximately 25 panelists.\u00a0 Invitations have gone out to 20+ nominees with a deadline of August 2 to confirm their participation.\u00a0 All 90+ nominees will be kept on a database for consideration in future panels and to broaden our networks.<\/span><\/p>\n
\nWESTAF a embauch\u00e9 un responsable des subventions et de l'acc\u00e8s et un responsable des subventions et de l'\u00e9quit\u00e9. Les deux nouvelles recrues commenceront le 2 ao\u00fbt. Une annonce conjointe avec les biographies des deux recrues sera envoy\u00e9e au cours de cette semaine. Le processus a n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 un processus rigoureux de six semaines avec plus de 40 candidats divers pour chaque poste de toute la r\u00e9gion WESTAF et au-del\u00e0. Le processus de recherche comprenait deux s\u00e9ries d'entretiens et un examen des images d'enregistrement men\u00e9es par des employ\u00e9s de WESTAF de divers services. Les quatre finalistes comprenaient trois membres du r\u00e9seau Leaders of Color. Nous sommes impatients de partager plus de d\u00e9tails une fois que les nouvelles recrues auront officiellement commenc\u00e9 leurs fonctions.<\/span><\/p>\n
\nNous aurons quelques mois charg\u00e9s \u00e0 venir avec diverses r\u00e9unions en personne (horreur !) de l'\u00e9quipe de direction, de la direction de RAO, du comit\u00e9 ex\u00e9cutif de WESTAF et de l'ensemble du conseil d'administration en octobre :<\/span><\/p>\n\n
\nNot a whole lot new to report on this fron<\/span><\/a>t, except to say that David, Anika and Christian are working on around four funding concepts for the Satterberg Foundation, following our great meeting with CC Gardner-Gleser. For FY22, we have put a placeholder of $300K (up from $200K) in the FY22 planning budget for new foundation funding. We\u2019re also monitoring closely the areas that can be funded through new fundraising sources, as opposed to areas currently restricted through other funding sources.<\/span><\/p>\n
\nLa version 1 du budget a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9labor\u00e9e et l'\u00e9quipe de direction s'ajuste actuellement pour la version 2 qui doit \u00eatre publi\u00e9e d'ici la fin de la semaine prochaine. Dans le cadre du processus budg\u00e9taire, les superviseurs se r\u00e9uniront pour discuter des lignes directrices qui leur permettront de d\u00e9fendre leurs \u00e9quipes concernant les ajustements de r\u00e9mun\u00e9ration de fin d'ann\u00e9e. Depuis ce vendredi, la plupart des employ\u00e9s ont visit\u00e9 notre nouvel espace de bureau partag\u00e9 \u00e0 l'Alliance Center. Nous sommes ravis de faire partie de cette nouvelle communaut\u00e9 dynamique : notre personnel a \u00e9t\u00e9 invit\u00e9 \u00e0 quatre \u00e9v\u00e9nements en personne qui se d\u00e9rouleront en juillet, ainsi qu'\u00e0 un d\u00e9fi de bien-\u00eatre virtuel ! Amy et Christian ont discut\u00e9 de l'investissement d'impact avec notre courtier, Tim Schott, qui fournira des informations suppl\u00e9mentaires au comit\u00e9 ex\u00e9cutif sur ce sujet. Les calculs des projets enti\u00e8rement allou\u00e9s au troisi\u00e8me trimestre ont \u00e9t\u00e9 partag\u00e9s avec la direction, ainsi que les chiffres de l'exercice 2020 comme contexte. Amy et Becca continuent de suivre de nombreuses sessions de formation sur le nouveau syst\u00e8me d'information RH, Paylocity. Becca utilisera le nouveau syst\u00e8me pour int\u00e9grer les nouveaux membres de l'\u00e9quipe des subventions et de l'exp\u00e9rience client \u00e0 partir d'ao\u00fbt. De plus, nous recrutons pour le poste de coordonnateur financier apr\u00e8s la d\u00e9mission de John Carpenter pendant sa p\u00e9riode de formation : ce poste ne lui convenait pas, nous avons donc republi\u00e9 le poste ! Amy proc\u00e8de aux calculs du cr\u00e9dit d'imp\u00f4t employeur et commence le d\u00e9p\u00f4t du dossier de remise de pr\u00eat #2 du programme de protection des ch\u00e8ques de paie.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
\nThe MarComm team just launched a new <\/span>GO Smart Features page<\/span><\/a>, a paid social media campaign on Facebook, another Google Ads campaign, and its<\/span> newest blog<\/span><\/a> on arts, culture and the American Rescue Plan. We also sent out a Q4 Public Art Archive newsletter that highlighted PAA\u2019s newest features, functionality, and collection spotlights, and launched our first-ever Google Ads campaign for PAA, which got 459 clicks in its first week. We are also working towards launching a new paid social media campaign that will start at the beginning of August. The team continues to work on the Creative Vitality\u2122 Summit social media strategy and toolkit and is finalizing the main event pages on the Aventri site as we prepare to officially open summit registration on July 30!<\/span><\/p>\n
\nThe MarComm team has also been working on numerous communications for the Creative Vitality\u2122 Summit as well as other announcements. We are heavy into the build phase of the Creative Vitality\u2122 Summit website, with the team collaborating on final touches to be added throughout the site. The team <\/span>recently announced Adri Norris<\/span><\/a> as the artist for the Women\u2019s Suffrage Mural Project, a collaborative project between the Social Responsibility & Inclusion team and Public Art Archive. We are also in the process of compiling a list of items to be included in next month\u2019s NEA newsletter. The team also launched <\/span>a brand new News page<\/span><\/a> on <\/span>westaf.org<\/span><\/a> with a fresher, more modern layout and a new search feature so that our many audiences can easily get to the content that is most relevant to them. We are also finalizing a communications plan for a mailing address change, as along with our transition to a fully distributed workplace, we are shifting to a mail service that will open and scan our mail and deposit our checks.<\/span><\/p>\n
\nThe communications cohort has outlined the discovery report and worked out a timeline to finish the report before the October board meeting. They are moving into phase 2 of our brand analysis project and preparing for our July 29th meeting. The next steps are compiling the<\/span> Discovery Report<\/span><\/a> and all of the research we have been collecting<\/span> into one cohesive deck. The cohort has broken down into groups to complete outstanding action items and research to accomplish for the first draft of the report. The policy cohort met on July 22 to discuss the next steps for the Regional Partner Handbook project. Once they receive feedback from our survey to state art agencies and state art advocacy groups, they will begin outlining the handbook itself. Meanwhile, the cohort is embarking on a discovery phase by researching existing resources, compiling feedback about said resources, and brainstorming new ideas.<\/span><\/p>\n
\nLe projet CaFE touche \u00e0 sa fin et l\u2019\u00e9quipe a travaill\u00e9 dur pour faciliter le lancement de cette initiative. L\u2019ach\u00e8vement des pipelines d\u2019int\u00e9gration continue pour ZAPP et CaFE va \u00eatre lanc\u00e9, ainsi qu\u2019une mise \u00e0 jour de PHP. La semaine derni\u00e8re, une vuln\u00e9rabilit\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9v\u00e9l\u00e9e qui affecterait la plupart des serveurs de WESTAF ; elle a \u00e9t\u00e9 corrig\u00e9e avec l\u2019\u00e9quipe BRI dans les heures qui ont suivi son annonce \u00e0 la communaut\u00e9 de s\u00e9curit\u00e9. Pendant ce temps, l\u2019\u00e9quipe technologique, l\u2019\u00e9quipe commerciale et les fournisseurs de technologie se pr\u00e9parent au d\u00e9part d\u2019Adam Sestokas. Des formations de d\u00e9part et des \u00ab brain dumps \u00bb ont lieu et sont programm\u00e9s avec diff\u00e9rents membres des \u00e9quipes BRI et WESTAF. La documentation est en cours de r\u00e9daction et les t\u00e2ches et responsabilit\u00e9s sont transf\u00e9r\u00e9es.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
\nChristina a r\u00e9cemment cr\u00e9\u00e9 des directives plus d\u00e9finies pour que les responsables de programme puissent terminer leurs r\u00e9capitulatifs trimestriels des activit\u00e9s (QBR), et nous travaillons \u00e0 finaliser le QBR pour le troisi\u00e8me trimestre d'ici la fin du mois. Avec le d\u00e9part d'Adam, Blair, Natalie et Christina ont particip\u00e9 \u00e0 des r\u00e9unions et ont aid\u00e9 \u00e0 prioriser les t\u00e2ches techniques et commerciales qui doivent \u00eatre termin\u00e9es et\/ou r\u00e9affect\u00e9es. Nous avons \u00e9galement termin\u00e9 le recrutement de notre \u00e9quipe d'exp\u00e9rience client et accueillerons Sara Graydon et Raymond Wilson \u00e0 partir de la semaine du 26 juillet. Natalie et Blair continuent de se concentrer sur les tests et la pr\u00e9paration du lancement de l'interface utilisateur d'administration de CaFE (des choses comme aider \u00e0 ajouter et formater le nouveau contenu du centre d'aide dans WordPress) et \u00e0 tester une mise \u00e0 niveau PHP pour ZAPP, CaFE et GO Smart requise pour la s\u00e9curit\u00e9 et la conformit\u00e9.<\/span><\/p>\n