Recognizing Best Practices in

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About the Award Program

Awards

Nomination Categories

Additional Details

How to Participate

Questions

About the Award Program

The goal of this awards program is to recognize organizations in the state of Florida  who have made significant efforts to make programs accessible and to develop momentum and excitement for access programming in the state.

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Awards

Recognizing Best Practices in Access will provide monetary awards to organizations that are chosen for their access efforts and initiatives. Award monies will be used by organizations to further their access work, making their programs open and inviting to all audiences. 

There are two award types:

• Sustainability Grants - $1,000 awards to sustain or enhance an accessible program or to be used to purchase new technology that will enhance the work and scope of the program.

• Professional Development Stipends - $500 awards will be used for nominated personnel to attend professional development opportunities such as the LEAD conference (Leadership Exchange in Arts and Disability) and to participate in other conferences and workshops that will benefit their professional growth and development. 

Award recipients and their programs will be highlighted in a printed piece produced by VSA arts of Florida and the Division of Cultural Affairs. 

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Nomination Categories

Nominations will be accepted for projects or individuals who have made significant efforts to make arts and cultural programming accessible to all audiences.  Nomination areas will include the following:

• Best NEW access initiative. 
  This category will recognize a new initiative or program (started within the last 18 months). 
  
• Best use of marketing tools to advertise access programming. 
  This category will recognize a program that has achieved excellence in the way the program is marketed to all audiences. 
  
• Best access initiative with small investment. 
  Recognizes a program that is accessible and welcoming to all audiences that is either operated on or started with tight resources. 
  
• Best emerging access initiative. 
  
• Outstanding model for accessible programming. 
  Recognizes an established program that has made an outstanding or remarkable effort on an ongoing basis to ensure their programming is accessible and welcoming.  Nominations in this category could potentially serve as a model to other organizations who are developing their programming. 

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Additional Details

Nominations will be reviewed by the statewide access task force which consists of members of Florida’s cultural community, local arts agencies, community cultural councils, and the Statewide Access Task Force. 

Award presentations will be made during Arts Day, April 2008.  The publication highlighting the work of the award nominees and recipients will be available in June 2008.

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How to Participate

Use our online form to nominate a project or individual for one of the nomination categories. You can nominate as many people as you want. The deadline for nomination is February 20, 2008.

• Submit a nomination

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Questions

Questions about the program should be directed to:

Florida Division of Cultural Affairs
Morgan Lewis
mblewis@dos.state.fl.us
850.245.6356

OR

VSA Arts of Florida
Beth Gordon
bgordonvsa@gmail.com

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