Foo Foo Fest committee scores 2015 grant applications

  • April 21, 2015
  • /   Joe Vinson
  • /   training-development
Members of the Arts, Culture and Entertainment met Tuesday morning to review and score grant applications for the 2015 Foo Foo Festival. ACE is a nonprofit organization that receives federal, state and local funds for the arts and disperses them to qualifying entities. Last year, ACE launched Foo Foo Fest, a multi-week festival aimed at boostign off-season tourism. Its bookend events last year were the Great Gulfcoast Arts Festival and the Blue Angels Homecoming Air Show. ACE offers grants to nonprofit organizations that wish to participate in Foo Foo Fest, with one mega-grant worth as much as $100,000 and other grants of up to $10,000 each. Grant applications were due April 14. At Tuesday’s meeting at the Earle Bowden Building, the committee scored applications based on 10 criteria worth 10 points each, for a maximum of 100 points. Applications that scored below 70 points were disqualified. Committee members include chairwoman Lois Benson, David Bear, Brendan Kelly, Maria Goldberg, Melissa Hackel and Ajit Patel. Members who had a conflicting relationship with individual applicant organizations abstained from voting on those applications. The full list of applicants and their scores is below. On April 28, the committee will meet again to allocate funds to the organizations based on these scores.

Mega-grants

  • Pensacola Opera: 85.6
  • Frank Brown International Songwriters Festival: 81.3
  • The Art Gallery at UWF: 83
  • Pensacon: 72
  • Truth for Youth: 64.5
  • Vinyl Music Hall & Southern Youth Sports Association: 73.6
  • LGBT Film Festival: 66.6

Regular grants

  • Pensacola Opera: 89.6
  • First City Alliance: 81.6
  • Ballet Pensacola: 89.5
  • Pensacola Symphony: 86.6
  • Pensacola Museum of Art: 87.8
  • Another Chance: 65
  • Egg Fest: 87.5
  • Soar Pensacola: 83.5
  • Truth for Youth: 71.5
  • Legal Services of North Florida: 75.5
  • Pensacola Lighthouse: 63.4
  • Jazz Society: 77.1
  • Pensacola Civic Band: 75.6
  • Clean Energy Fest: 87.8
  • Pensacola Little Theatre: 84
  • Japan-America Society of Northwest Florida: 82.5
  • Pensacola MESS Hall: 84.3
  • Choral Society: 75.1
  • UWF Historic Trust: 74.2
  • African-American Heritage Society: 77.1
  • Pensacola Bay Concert Band: 72.6
  • Southeastern Teen Shakespeare Company: not scored / disqualified
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