... and the bear

the official blog of the Scientific and Cultural Facilities District

Since 1989, Scientific and Cultural Facilities District (SCFD) has distributed funds from a 1/10 of 1% sales and use tax to cultural facilities throughout the seven-county Denver, Colorado metropolitan area. The funds support cultural facilities whose primary purpose is to enlighten and entertain the public through the production, presentation, exhibition, advancement and preservation of art, music, theatre, dance, zoology, botany, natural history and cultural history.

Photobucket Learn about the interworkings of the SCFD and cultural happenings around the seven county metro area with your guide, Erica, Program Assistant for SCFD. Have a suggestion for an event? Are you an SCFD organization that wants to be reviewed? Shoot me an email at erica@scfd.org.

Colorado counties include Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Broomfield, Denver, Douglas, and Jefferson. Everything written here is personal opinion and not intended to infer official judgment on the part of the SCFD, board members, or other staff.

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The Interworkings of Eligibility

Curious as to how new organizations become part of the SCFD family?  Not to fear, Erica is hear to share all.

Well to start things off, new organizations must have applied for eligibility by September, 30 2011 (date changes yearly but it is typically in the fall). Once eligibility applications are received by SCFD staff, they first land on my desk where I do the initial eligibility review.  This can take anywhere from three to five hours, whoa!  Guided by the SCFD statute I am looking to see that organizations are entertaining and enriching the public and are financially viable. Once I’ve finished an initial review the eligibility application then goes to one of our wonderful Program Managers, Nancy McCamey or Jessica Clare.  They also conduct a review of the organization guided by the statute, then the application goes to our Executive Director, Peg Long for a final review.  Then we all come together and have a discussion about each of our analysis and make the decision if the organizations meets or does not meet eligibility as defined in the statute.  So as you can see this is a very lengthy process and our tiny staff invests a lot of time and energy to ensure we’re being thorough.  We take eligibility serious!  Got to go, I have 24 new organizations sitting on my desk waiting to be reviewed!

~Erica

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