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role in the cultural life of the community —ones whose primary Purpose is to promote participation in, appreciation for, and understanding of the visual, performing, folk, and media arts. These include government -owned or government -operated cultural facilities and institutions, municipal arts agencies and councils, private community arts organizations, unincorporated arts groups, living collections (such as zoos, aquariums, and botanical gardens), university presenters, and arts programs that are embedded under the umbrella of a uon-arts organization or facility (such as a community center or church), in short, if it displays the characteristics of a nonprofit arts and cultural organization and has an identifiable budget/attendance and leadership, study partners are encouraged to include them. Onlyfar profit businesses and Individual artists are acluded from this study. "' - 3. Assist with the Data Collection from Eligible Organizations lnirint above Americans for the Arts will provide a proprietary Arts & Economic Prosperity 6 Organizational Survey that will be distributed to all of the eligible arts and cultural organizations located in the City of Santa Ana. Detailed instructions for how to assist with the survey effort will be provided in the AEP6 Study Welcome Packet that all study partners will receive in December 2021, • The Organizational Survey will be distributed electronically via email to all eligible organizations using Americans for the Arts' customizable survey software and secure research server. This will be a paperless process. • The survey is designed to capture all of the key information that is required for this study's proprietary economic Impact analyses including revenues, expenditures, attendance, in -kind contributions, staffing, and volunteerism, To put as much daylight as possible between the survey findings and COV[D-19, the organizational survey will request information about each organization's fiscal year that will end during 2022 (organizations that have not closed their FY22 financials by the time they are completing the survey will be asked to provide estimates/projections). • The survey is programmed with logic in order to make the survey path as appropriate and seamless as possible for the responding organizations. Revenue and expense categories will be customized based on each responding organization's budget size and legal status (e.g., nonprofit vs. government). Respondents will be able to save their answers at any time and return at a later date to finish the survey. Based on testing, the comprehensive version of the survey will take no more than 20 minutes to complete. • Once the initial survey phase has been completed, we will activate an abbreviated version of the survey to all retraining non -participants. Based on testing, the abbreviated version of the survey will take no more than 7 minutes to complete. To request a web -based contract via DocuSign, contact Ben Davidson (bdavidson@,,artsusa.orn). Alternatively, you may print/complete this document, scan/save it, and return it via email for approval. f