2. High Level OutcomesFeedback on the purpose statement created by the Task Force Feedback on 5 themes of focus

4. Doesn’t give you strategic plan

5. The word ‘great’ is qualitative

6. Can’t visualize it

7. Don’t know if greater

8. For whom are you making it a greater community?

9. Arts is not used anywhere?

10. What is the ultimate goal?

11. Fuel implies ‘Funding”

12. This doesn’t inspire me – should it have inspiration behind it to have people be inspired?

13. Misc Feedback on the 5 general themes

14. Discovering creative impulse within the community

15. Inter-connecting & promoting community experiences

16. Funding through non-government sources

17. Centralizing Communications

18. Resourcing Administration of Entity

19. Creative industries – how do you mobilize the people in the creative industries (fostering creative entrepreneurialism) 5 K ppl in Pinellas County

20. Promotions of Creative Industries not just events

21. Art Education (monthly newsletter - Pinellas Cultural Affairs & News)

22. Specific Feedback for Statements

24. Dali-Science & Math in garden outside; see the creative things going on, not just traditional

25. See/feature how business uses creativity and use a ‘spotlight’ story on site/newsletter

26. Luncheon @ arts in business – bring art to the community into the businesses; lunch & learns, afterhours, etc.

27. Look at it as marketing platform (We’re Not Artist Campaign – MFA; I’m not an artist but I support the arts)

28. Graduating students eager to start new (studios, galleries, businesses, etc.) ; how do we discover them; we inform the Universities/Colleges about the ‘where to go to-ism’ (Be a liaison service)

29. Be ‘Fresh Ideas ‘ Store online

30. Teach Business skills associated with the career of being in the arts/culture/creative industries

32. Interconnect personally among each other

33. Educating, fostering, training and mentoring

34. Dali-Avant Garden (Sci/Math/Art)

35. Educate the adults and let adults be the educators (Campaign – how do you use the arts, in business, as faculty members in schools/univ/colleges, etc.)

36. Arts across the curriculum – highlighting arts in pARTnership

37. Promote relocation benefits/features of Pinellas Community (comment from mother “Once I moved here I thought Shame on Me for not knowing all Pinellas County had to offer my child with regard to the arts”)

38. Attendance at School programs - A LOT are coming; polled community and 63% willing to pay special tax, the following year it ROSE to 70% - community WANTS this and has already voted they are willing to pay if we ask; parents WANT to come and see their children be successful and the entire family comes including aunts/uncles/grandparents, etc,

40. Cause related Marketing – CEO at helm willing to buy-in

41. Endowments – specific spending; quiet opp until around $100K; utilize interests to fund projects; have a site to connect the donors to the projects propelled by the donor/artist – we facilitate the connection – they take on the work from there

42. Moving donor endorsed funds (ARTS community fund)

43. Commit to raise the profession of the arts/cultural leaders; give more $ to the Directors

44. Board to get involved in advocating Arts Careers more by putting their $ towards it

45. When we ask for endowments, we educate them about the needs

46. Donor advised funds – connect the opportunity for giving to the community

47. Have entity promoting the resources (not necessarily serving as the funding source)

48. 10% of donations supports the entity (non-competitive with itself – e.g. if the money ultimately goes to MFA, why wouldn’t someone simply give all to the MFA cutting out the ‘middle man’)

49. Tampa Bay Helps.com model for giving

50. License tag $

52. Model the E-new we get now; its relevant because it connects us with funding sources, its resource focused

53. Everyone TRUSTED where the news and information came from

54. They came to US as well if they needed you, they were good partners

55. Sometimes dif to come into arts culture here in Pinellas (even though there is a very loving and caring community, sometimes difficult to get into it when you’re new to the community)

56. Say what you mean, mean what you say; follow-up communication with actions

57. Easy to use, effective

58. Can’t it just be about communications?

60. Have to have people

61. Teach savvy – to interconnect behind the scenes

62. Director to oversee all staff/entity responsibilities & commitments (tech/web, doing it, expanding it, collating the information, etc.)

63. Staff aligned with each focus

64. Director has to have tremendous awareness of a lot – it takes a lot to connect to this

65. Should be some sort of Advisory Committee/Board

66. Employment need s to be clearly defined

67. Has to be a 5 year plan (immediate goals for the entity, secondary, tertiary)