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    The Sacramento City Council approved a Creative Economy Pilot Project with four strategies to support the creative economy. The project received 481 applications requesting $7.6 million but will only award approximately $500,000 to 57 projects. A nine-member independent review panel evaluated and scored applications over several months and recommended final awards, with only 12% of applications receiving funding.

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    The Sacramento City Council approved a Creative Economy Pilot Project with four strategies to support the creative economy. The project received 481 applications requesting $7.6 million but will only award approximately $500,000 to 57 projects. A nine-member independent review panel evaluated and scored applications over several months and recommended final awards, with only 12% of applications receiving funding.

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    A fact sheet on the Creative Economy program, including organizations receiving grants.

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    The Sacramento City Council approved a Creative Economy Pilot Project with four strategies to support the creative economy. The project received 481 applications requesting $7.6 million but will only award approximately $500,000 to 57 projects. A nine-member independent review panel evaluated and scored applications over several months and recommended final awards, with only 12% of applications receiving funding.

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    The Sacramento City Council approved a Creative Economy Pilot Project with four strategies to support the creative economy. The project received 481 applications requesting $7.6 million but will only award approximately $500,000 to 57 projects. A nine-member independent review panel evaluated and scored applications over several months and recommended final awards, with only 12% of applications receiving funding.

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    FACT SHEET

    On January 10, 2017, the Sacramento City Council unanimously approved the Creative
    Economy Pilot Project. The Creative Economy Pilot Project consists of four strategies:

    1. Make Sacramento a Platform for Experimentation


    2. Build a Place-based Neighborhood Ecosystem around Food, Tech, and Art
    3. Empower Individual Creators, Makers and Entrepreneurs
    4. Practice What We Preach: Civic Engagement and Innovation in City Hall

    These strategies provide policy direction to the City Manager to initiate testing and
    experimentation, data collection and analysis, policy development, and systems
    rethinking through funding offered under the program.

    The purpose of providing Creative Economy Pilot Project grants is to support arts and
    culture projects that stimulate economic development and activity, as well as social
    impact. The City recognizes the significant impacts the creative economy contributes and
    is interested in testing a place-based approach to developing small-scale economic hubs
    through arts and culture to sustain or create investment and jobs in a targeted area.

    Two types of grants are available under the program: (1) microgrants of up to $5,000, and
    (2) grants of up to $25,000. The 45-day application period closed on July 30 and the City
    received a total of 481 applications with $7.6 million in funding requests. Approximately
    $500,000 will be awarded under pilot project.

    Grant Selection Process

    Over the last several months, a nine-member Review Panel met to discuss and score all
    eligible applications. The application review process comprised the following steps:

    1. Staff screened applications for completeness and eligibility.


    2. In order to develop a consistent scoring methodology, the Review Panel met to
    discuss its interpretation of the review criteria and scored ten randomly selected
    applications together.
    3. To manage the volume of applications received, staff divided the Review Panel
    into three groups and assigned one-third of the total pool of eligible applications
    for review and evaluation by each group.
    4. Each group independently engaged in a deliberative process to review, score,
    and rank all applications within the assigned pool.
    5. The Review Panel reconvened for one-and-a-half days to review and discuss the
    highest ranking applications within each groups pool and the Panel engaged in a

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    deliberative process to develop a list of preliminary award recommendations for
    the City Managers consideration.

    Independent Review Panel

    The panel comprised a diverse group of experts in economic development and the arts.
    Six members were appointed by the Mayor and three members were appointed by the
    City Manager:

    Mayors Appointees City Managers Appointees

    1. Maya Wallace, Sacramento 1. Carlos Eliason, Office of the City


    Metropolitan Arts Commission Manager
    2. Mary Kimball, Center for 2. Lorrie Clark-Lowry, Office of
    Land-Based Learning Innovation and Economic
    3. Justin Knighten, Lucas Public Development
    Affairs 3. Jonathon Glus, Department of
    4. Veronica Delgado, Sacramento Convention and Cultural Services
    State University
    5. Niva Flor, Sacramento Region
    Community Foundation
    6. Monica Hernandez, Sacramento
    Area Council of Governments

    Final Award Recommendations

    The final award recommendations consist of 5 7 projects (13 grants and 44 microgrants)
    with just 12 percent of applications receiving funding.

    Each award is conditioned upon staff verification that projects are, in fact, feasible based
    on the amount of funding to be awarded and that each prospective grantee can meet
    City contracting requirements. Therefore, award amounts are not guaranteed and subject
    to change.

    Contact

    For more information on the Creative Economy Pilot Project, please contact:

    Ash Roughani
    [email protected] | (916) 808-7751

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