ARTSERVE: 2011 MCACA grant recipient? MICDP made easy step-by-step

Congratulations on receiving a FY 2011 MCACA POPS award.

You are required to send MCACA an MCACA funder report (two years) that is generated through

the Michigan CDP. The steps to generate a Funder Report in CDP are:

1. Read the New User Orientation on the website

2. Watch the training videos, which range from a short general overview to a 20 minute

presentation with specific instructions

If you attended a training workshop or webinar, steps 1 & 2 cover much of the same

material. You can sign up for free 90-minute New User Orientation webinars offered the first

Wednesday of every month at 10am and 2pm.

3. Gather information about your group’s last two completed fiscal years, see the Data

Profile Instructions for list of what will be needed.

4. Type in your data from the fiscal year completed two years ago first. Once it is done,

then you should enter the most recently completed fiscal year. You do the work in this

order because the prior year will autofill into the more recent year, allowing to see both

years at the same time as you enter data.

5. Once a fiscal year is entered, you hit the submit button and an error check is run for math

errors. Correct any errors.

6. Go to the Reports section, where you will see the list of Michigan funders requiring or

recommending the CDP Funder Report. Click on the funder you want and follow the

instructions.

The MCACA Funder Report is due, via email as a PDF or hard copy, when you return your grant

agreement. The MCACA is working on getting those grant agreements out as soon as possible

but can’t give an exact date at this time. The MCACA will not release your first payment until the

funder report is received. You will receive your grant – but when you receive it depends on when

you send back the Funder Report to the MCACA.

Please note that an additional new requirement this year is to provide the MCACA with a

copy of notification of your award to legislators. This should also be returned with your grant

agreement. Please see http://www.themedc.org/Arts/Grant-Recipients/Default.aspx for more

acknowledgement requirements.

ADVOCACY and the CDP – DEMONSTRATING IMPACT

The steps above are essential for the role that CDP plays in grant making. The CDP collects

the financial and programmatic activities of an arts or cultural group in one place and allows that

group to send the information easily to a funders that participate in the system using PDFs that

have been tailored to each funder’s needs. In other words, it uses the Internet and sophisticated

databases to eliminate the need to reformate the same information for different funders.