Partnership Projects

 

An additional amount from the Society’s Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund appropriation for historical partnerships for 2012 will be awarded through the Minnesota Historical and Cultural Grants program solicitation process using the same application deadlines, project guidelines,review criteria, and application forms.

Partnership Definition

Partnerships are understood as follows:

1. When two or more otherwise independent eligible applicants are involved in a project, they are termed partners. Partnerships have several distinguishing characteristics.
2. All parties must have a vested and active interest in the project.
3. Although one of the partners might be a central or managing player with the largest role in managing the project, all partners must contribute in some tangible way to the accomplishment of the project. These contributions may take different forms, such as:
   • financial support,
   • contributed time and labor,
   • professional or technical expertise,
   • access to facilities or equipment,
   • use of intellectual property, or
   • access to other resources or individuals.

   The contributions and obligations of each party in a partnership are typically codified in some form of a formal, written document such as an agreement, memorandum of understanding, or contract.

4. Reference to the arrangements between entities above as "partnerships" is for consistency with the statutory language only and is not intended to describe or define a legal relationship between the parties.

SUPPLEMENTAL APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS FOR PARTNERSHIP PROJECTS

For your application to be included for consideration in the additional pool of funds available for partnership projects you will need to identify in your application who the partners are, what each brings to the project, and include a copy of the document that governs your partnership.

Follow the instructions for completing the application form as well as the additional guidance provided for the various project categories.

In the brief project summary on page one of the application form, identify your project as a partnership and name the partners. In subsequent narrative questions clearly state which party will be the managing partner for the purposes of administering the grant and describe the nature of the partnership and how and in what form the partnership relationship is documented.

FUNDED PROJECTS

• Spring 2010
• Fall 2009