Madison Cultural Plan 2011 - City of Madison, Wisconsin

Appendix D:
Outline of Requirements for an RFP
to Create The Partnership
The City of Madison’s request for proposals for the creation of a
public/private/creative sector partnership should:
• Require a creative, feasible, comprehensive one year work plan prepared by
the applicant and based on this plan;
• Require experience in the successful local management of substantial creative
sector services, including direct work with artists, creative workers, arts and
cultural institutions, creative sector commerce, and the philanthropic
community;
• Require in-depth familiarity with arts and cultural information resources,
professional organizations and local cultural agency models from around the
nation;
• Require substantial, successful experience in developing and delivering
activities that advance connectivity among members of the creative sector
and between the creative sector and its consumers and patrons locally and
regionally;
• Require an applied and comprehensive knowledge of the conditions that
support the creative process among individuals and organizations;
• Require experience in a range of successful public/private partnership efforts in
the creative sector;
• Require a knowledge of working relationships within the local and regional
creative sector; and
• Require advanced familiarity with and documented respect from local artists
and creative workers, arts and cultural institutions, and creative sector
commerce.
The scope of services in the request for proposals should be driven by the early
implementation activities outlined in this plan. The term of the service agreement
should be one year, after which time The Partnership’s governing body should be
fully seated, trained, and functional with The Partnership positioned to commence
its independent operation.
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