Glossary
Accumulated Organization Debt: An organization's long-term debt liability.

Advocacy: Communication for the purpose of making one's own views count in the decision-making process.

Apprentice: Someone who has some experience with an art form and wishes to further his or her knowledge or skills.

Applicant Cash: Funds applicant has available to meet project expenses.

Authorizing Official: The person with the authority to legally obligate the applicant.

Block Booking: Arts presenters share expenses and schedule performers who will be in the same area to reduce costs and develop audiences.

Capital Expenditures: Expenses for purchase of buildings or real estate; renovations or improvements involving structural change; payments for roads, driveways or parking lots; equipment; and permanent and generally immobile equipment.

Certified Financial Statement: Annual organizational year-end financial statements from the recently completed fiscal year. It includes a profit and loss statement, a balance sheet of assets, debts, liabilities, and retained earnings. Footnotes and explanations of variances from the previous year are encouraged. It must be signed as certified or audited by an independent authority, such as an accountant, board member, fiscal officer, or treasurer. The person who prepared the statement cannot be the same person who certifies that the statement is a true representation of the financial standing of the organization.

Community: Familial, ethnic, social, religious, or occupational groups conscious of their identity and of what gives them a sense of "belonging" to a certain region, city, neighborhood, tradition, occupation, religious belief, ethnic or linguistic group.

Community Arts: Practices and performances that represent and enhance the cultural life and heritage of a community.

Community Access: The opportunity provided to all who live in a community to participate in the arts, events, education, and life of the community, regardless of ability, gender, economics, geographic, or social circumstance.

Contracted Services Revenue: Includes the sale of workshops, classes, or other services performed by the organization to other community organizations; government contracts for specific services; performance or residency fees; or tuition.

Contributions:
Cash contributions are project-specific from private persons, or gross proceeds from fund-raising events. Applicant must identify the source of the contribution and keep appropriate documentation on file.
Foundation and Corporate cash contributions, or a proportionate share of such contributions, given by private foundations or businesses.
In-kind contributions are services and real or personal property, or use thereof, donated by agencies or individuals. In-kind contributions must be documented to demonstrate community support of the project. All contributed time, except that of board members, may be used as in-kind match. Rates for volunteers should be consistent with rates paid in the area for similar work. Rates for professionals, such as lawyers or carpenters, should be calculated at their usual rates. When a professional contributes skills of another nature, the minimum wage rate should be used.

Creative Nonfiction: Writing that uses literary devices available to poets and fiction writers but which does not alter true and accurate facts or information. Though the story may lack the objectivity or balance of a newspaper account, nothing is made up.

Cultural Planning: A structured process involving the community in the identification of cultural resources, and the need to create a plan and set priorities for actions that address their cultural needs.

Documentary: For our granting purposes, this includes work of an artistic nature, not historical or academic.

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Earned Income: Revenue from sales of admissions, tickets, subscriptions, and memberships.

Employer Identification Number (EIN): Number assigned by the Internal Revenue Service necessary to process grant payments to all organizations.

Enrichment: Experience crafted to support an educational activity.

Ethnic Group: Any social group based on perceptions of shared ancestry, cultural traditions, and a common history that distinguishes that particular group.

Expenses:
Production: For costumes, sets, lights, props, framing, installation, and so forth.
Space Rental: project-specific payments for the rental of office, rehearsal, theater, hall, gallery, and other space.
Remaining Operating Expenses: All project-specific expenses not listed elsewhere, such as scripts and scores, lumber and nails, shipping and trucking, and equipment rental.
Travel: All appropriate costs associated with the applicant's activity, project, program, or service.

Feasibility Study: An analysis to determine if a project is possible.

Fieldwork: Research that involves observing and interviewing members of any particular group to collect information and assist in the preservation of their folklife and art. It can provide information to urban and rural planners, environment, education, health professionals, and so forth.

Final Report: The Final Descriptive Report (FDR) that recipients must submit to the Commission within the fiscal year of the grant or within 60 days after completion of a project or activity.

FTE (Full Time Equivalent): A position that has a paid schedule of 40 hours a week. Part-time positions are based on fractions of 40 hours, such as 20 paid hours equal a _ FTE.

Folk Traditional Arts: Includes vernacular architecture, crafts, tools and trades, occupational practices, personal experience stories, jokes, rhymes, games, and foodways such as food preparation, preservation, and presentation. Examples of folk arts in Idaho include willow and cornhusk weaving, trappings for hunting and fishing; parfleche, cradleboard, dance regalia, and moccasin construction; bead, feather, hide, porcupine quill, and hair work. In addition, tool and instrument making, fly-tying, rosemaling, quilting, paper crafts, cowboy and horse gear such as saddle, hat, and boot making, horsehair hitching, leather and rawhide braiding, cowboy and logger poetry, chip and chainsaw carving, African-style hair braiding, music, song, and dance.

Folklife: Concerns the traditions, art, celebrations, and culture shared by the different groups who live in a community. It includes their customs, stories, beliefs, skills, working traditions, language use, rituals, crafts, music, foodways, songs, dances, and architecture of their community.

Idaho K-12 Fine Arts Framework: A State Department of Education publication designed to help schools develop their fine arts curriculum in visual art, dance, music, and theater, and formulate realistic arts education goals for their students.

In-kind: (see contributions)

In-service: Professional development training.

Integrated Arts Education: When the arts are used with traditional academic approaches to help students better understand a particular subject or theme.

Interdisciplinary Arts: Art that integrates different disciplines to produce a single work of art, including performances.

Literature: Genres eligible for literary awards are fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and cowboy poetry (journalism, documentary narrative, writing intended for youth, and scholarly writing are ineligible).

Master Artists: Those recognized by their communities or their peers as the best in their discipline.

Media: For our granting purposes, this includes audio, filmmaking, media installation, screenwriting, and video.

Minority Groups: Persons who share national origin, language, ethnicity, religious belief, ability, or social economic status different from most in the community.

National Standards for Arts Education: A statement of what every student should know and be able to do in four art disciplines: dance, music, theater, and the visual arts. Their scope is preschool through grade twelve and speaks to content and achievement.

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Occupational Art: Expressive of the aesthetics and practices of those in certain occupations or trades.

Oral and Performance Traditions: Song and instrumental music, dance, games, play, strategy, and the spoken word, including folk and traditional storytelling.

Other Operational Expenses: List additional major items not included in the application. Refer to the grant category definition and limitations. Generally, such expenses directly support the project, season support, or professional development opportunity and may be included if the grant category allows such expenses. Do not include capital purchases, lobbying, or capital fund-raising items.

Outside Fees and Services: Project-specific payments to firms or persons for the services of artists, technical personnel, or other professionals not normally employed by the applicant.

Performing Artists: Includes dancers and choreographers, actors, playwrights, set and costume designers, composers, and performers.

Personnel:
Administrative: payments of proportionate or appropriate share of employees' salaries, wages, and benefits.
Artistic: payments for employees' salaries, wages, and benefits made to artistic directors, conductors, directors, curators, dance masters, composers, choreographers, designers, video artists, film makers, and so on.
Technical/Production: payments for employees' salaries, wages, and benefits made to technical directors, wardrobe, lighting, and sound crews, stage members, and similar technical management personnel.

Presenter: A nonprofit organization that engages in touring performing or non-performing artists, pays them a fee, and manages the local presentation.

Professional Artists: Those who derive their identity as an artist or a significant portion of their livelihood from artistic activity. Résumé, work history, and oral testimony assist the panelists to determine status.

Revenue: Funds derived from gift shops or catalog sales, advertising space in programs, investment income, concessions, parking, and other revenues.

Risk-Taking Project: Risk can be of an artistic or financial nature expanding organizational programming and taking its audiences in new directions.

Rural: Counties that have no cities with populations of 20,000 or more. Cities with populations smaller than 5,000.

Tradition Bearers: Those recognized for their knowledge of the traditions and oral history of their community, or who are qualified to provide information and pass on their knowledge and skills because of their distinguished role in the community.

Underserved: As defined by the NEA, a community in which individuals lack access to arts programs due to geography, economic conditions, ethnic background, or disability.

University Applicant: An applicant group that exists within a university or college, such as a department, program, or student organization. See Funding for Organizations, College and Universities.

Visual Artists: Includes painters, crafters, photographers, printmakers, sculptors, video artists, architects, ceramists, metal smiths, paper, glass, and fiber artists, mixed media artists, glass artists, designers, book artists, installation artists, artists working in new technologies, outsider or visionary artists, and traditional folk craft.

Youth at Risk: Youth exposed to factors that may increase their tendency to engage in problem or delinquent behaviors.

Work Sample: Items required and necessary for panel to evaluate quality of artwork associated with an application. This includes slides, digital images, photographs, CDs, DVDs, audio tapes, manuscripts, etc.

Legislative District Information
Voter Information: idahovotes.gov/vinfo.htm
Legislative Map: www.legislature.idaho.gov/about/idmap2.pdf
County Clerks are listed below and at: idahovotes.gov/clerk.htm

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