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FY15 MCACA Minigrants Awarded to 14 Local Arts & Cultural Organizations
Break for Lunch: From Data to Dashboard
Nonprofits Invited to Submit Design Projects


FY15 MCACA Minigrants Awarded to 14 Local Arts & Cultural Organizations

Fourteen arts & cultural groups from five counties in Northwest Michigan have been approved for minigrant funds through the Michigan Council for the Arts & Cultural Affairs (MCACA) Regranting Program for local projects  and professional development planned between January 1 and September 30, 2015.  The organizations will share $30,900 in total funding.  An additional $3,100 will be awarded for organizational development in February 2015, for a total of $34,000 in minigrant support. The MCACA regrant program is administered locally through NorthSky Nonprofit Network. Read more...


Break for Lunch: From Data to Dashboard 

NMC logo January 15, 2015
Noon to 2 pm
Northwestern Michigan College University Center
Instructors: Lisa Wyatt Knowlton, EdD,Phillips Wyatt Knowlton, Inc. and Cynthia Phillips, PhD, Phillips Wyatt Knowlton, Inc. 
Fee: $15, feel free to bring your lunch

If data told you where to improve and whether you're successful or off-course, would you want it? Would you use it? 

Data can act as vital navigation gauges to understand where your work stands compared to planned results. The right data can also be used to improve both processes and impact. Understanding your information users, selecting relevant information for them and sharing it effectively are vital to organization effectiveness. This session will orient participants to basic terms in measurement, as well as the process steps to move from data to a dashboard using a "show and do" format. Small groups will participate in generating a theory of change, vital questions, metrics, Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), and explore dashboard design.

 

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Nonprofits Invited to Submit Design Projects

 

Northwestern Michigan College Visual Communications Department invites area nonprofits to submit graphic design, art direction and new media projects for consideration as pro-bono projects during the Spring semester. Submissions are due by January 1, 2015.

 

Part of the Visual Communications curriculum, the class project is free to the nonprofits selected. The goal is a real-world assignment that allows students to interact with clients and exposes them to the commercial printing and production worlds, including film and new media production, creative advertising, graphic design and packaging. Projects will be completed by the end of the spring semester in May 2015. Some projects may be able to be completed before this date.

 

Potential projects could include logos, brochures, ad campaigns, packaging, graphic design, branding, posters, infographics, announcements, invitations, film, web animations, Flash animations, exhibition design, TV commercials or anything relating to visual communications, commercial art, illustration and film or web design. The department is especially interested in conceptually-driven projects that will offer the students substantial opportunity for interaction with the client and process.

 

For more information contact: Diana Fairbanks, NMC Executive Director of Public Relations, Marketing and Communications, at (231) 995-1019 or at [email protected].

 


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