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Big Picture Foundation Needs:

Enabling Grants for…

• Stipends and Salaries
  • #1 Priority – Nonprofit Business Manager
  • Top Tier Priority – Community Art Outreach Program Coordinator
    • Develops a schedule of after-school, evening, and weekend programs
    • Communicates events to the public
      • coordinates and oversees kids’ collaborative efforts with other organizations
        • Splurge Gifts hat project
        • UNA-NYC Night of 1000 Dinners
      • develops and runs BPF in-network initiatives
    • Communicates with schools in represented districts to keep them aware of BPF opportunities
    • Gives equally invested districts equal time and programming
    • Communicates with kids and families
    • Creates leadership opportunities for kids
    • Creates opportunities for kids to join ongoing projects
    • Develops lists of ongoing projects and publicly posts opportunities
    • Creates written material to distribute to schools and groups about BPF art outreach initiatives.
    • Keeps other members of the organization up-to-date and well-informed about art outreach activities.
    • Oversees the Development of the “Friend Link” program
    • Chaperones children on the “Friend Link” program
    • Oversees the “Art for Outreach” program
    • Oversees the “Art for Charity” program
    • Oversees “Bake Sales for a Better World”
    • Oversees students’ website development for underprivileged partner groups
    • Creates fun pr videos that show kids engaged in special events  Posts the videos within 5 days of each event
    • Recruits help from college interns and community volunteers, when needed
  • Program Assistant
    • Social Media Updates
    • Press Release Writing and Distributing
      • distributing after administrator approval
    • Mailing List Maintenance
    • Maintain Permission Slips from Parents
    • Communication with Schools and with Corporate Collaborators
    • Award and certificate Generation
    • Public Calendar Maintenance
    • Administration Calendar Coordination
    • Grant Writer
    • Errand runner
    • Project Assistance to the Art Outreach Coordinator
    • Project Assistant to Executive Director and to the President of the Board
    • Graphic design work
      • “Public Service Announcements”
      • BPF Newsletters
  • Program directors’ stipends in refugee camps
  • Executive Director
  • President of the Board
  • Tech Advisor
  • Legal Advisor (nonprofit & trademark/copyright specialist, ideally)
  • Teachers and visiting artists to run special workshops

• Outreach Initiatives
  • Top Tier Priority – support for programs in underprivileged communities
  • Community outreach programs
  • Train tickets and lunches for “Friend Link” kids.

• Programs
  • Top Tier Priority – Insurance for the board and employees
  • Top Tier Priority – Insurance for kids programs
  • A space of our own, where we can run open studio hours, show work, coordinate international real-time meetings on a video screen, show movies, and store supplies.  Would also like to invite collaborating teachers, as visiting artists.
  • Donations of used laptops that are loaded with Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator and Microsoft Word.
  • Office equipment when we have a space (ideally color laser printer) with inks and toner and a photocopier
  • Budget to maintain open studio sessions
  • Budget for employee professional development
    • Subscription services and fees for web hosting, storage, graphic design, videos, etc
  • cable, internet, phone, and utility fees