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DocuSign Envelope ID: 85358FB7-CDFA-44C1-B966-DFDA4354188B Media Arts Santa Ana Millennial Producers Academy (MILPA) Details of Innovation in Program/Service Delivery The creative team leading MILPA have extensive experience designing public festivals and youth media classes. As founders of United Artists of Santa Ana, they were instrumental in developing advocacy strategies and programs that led to the creation of the Santa Ana Arts Commission, inclusion of artists as a preferred class for affordable housing, the Santa Ana Investing in the Artist Grant, and the Santa Ana Arts Master Plan. Because of its digital design and the unique experience set of the creative team, the Millennial Producers Academy can be delivered effectively as either an in -person or virtual class. Due to the shutdown related to the COVID pandemic, the 2020 Millennial Producers Academy was quickly converted from an in -person class to a virtual class on Zoom. We will use this experience to deliver high quality instruction with the most access and equity as possible. The combination of pre -produced videos, live instruction, video production assignments and viewing of aesthetically -significant films on Kanopy allows for one-on-one mentoring and the development of a deep and well-rounded understanding and passion for the creativity, relevance and power of media arts production and lifelong arts participation. The production of the online instructional videos is also innovative as it will provide the foundation for offering more classes to the community next at a lower cost. As we anticipate that Santa Ana's primarily immigrant community will continue to face serious challenges to their well-being during the pandemic, we are excited by MILPA's potential to create a mechanism for cross -sector "digital response teams" to address the real -world challenges to MASA's constituent community and partner organizations. We hope that you will consider the Millennial Producers' Academy for support. Funding from the City of Santa Ana Youth Programs and Services RFP will provide critical resources needed to implement the MILPA program and begin connecting and transforming our community via the power and promise of digital media. We will be fundraising to continue the program for 2022, and support from the City of Santa Ana will allow us to produce critical support materials and documentation for future grants, so that we can continue to offer the Millennial Producers Academy as a free program to Santa Ana residents. The proposed budget includes a total of 16 videos and 24 class sessions. We believe this is an effective number to provide broad access, and can scale it to include more or fewer classes to accommodate for budgetary considerations, if necessary. Fee $15,000 15