There's no mention of us, but we were originally hired by Economic Indicators Committee of IRAFF (see below, a committee formed of regional arts funding bodies) and proposed and designed this system after performing audits of their data, as per the original contract. It has taken about 5 years for this to become a reality and we did three phases of it-- beginning with the recommendation that they create this system. Yeah, Netgain! We'll pat ourselves on the back anyway. As GM for Kaha:wi, I also suspect this will make my life a little easier, while at the same time complicating it as one requirements is the submission of independent financial statements for our last season, which we currently do not have.
This is the official press release:
CADAC goes live
Ottawa, December 4, 2008 — After a very successful pilot and some fine tuning, CADAC (Canadian Arts Data/ Données sur les arts au Canada) the integrated financial and statistical online database for arts organizations is now ready to accept data for operating program deadlines beginning in 2009.
CADAC uses a web-based application that will lighten the administration burden on arts organizations applying for operating funding to one or multiple public funders by enabling them to submit one set of financial and statistical information.
Thirty-three arts organizations from all disciplines participated in the pilot testing of the application which took place between October 4 and November 16. The feedback received from those organizations noted that the registration process and the instructions were simple to follow.
Twenty-eight of the organizations indicated the test was a positive or very positive experience. Their input resulted in six enhancements to the application and adjustments to the financial form. It also helped to identify and solve seven problem areas.
To facilitate the process, each funder will be contacting organizations to let them know the first deadline for which they should submit their financial and statistical data into CADAC. This process will be phased in over the next two years as operating deadlines occur throughout the year.
Organizations applying for operating funding are encouraged to register with CADAC as soon as possible.
The CADAC team would like to thank all of those who participated and enabled us to finalize the application in time for the 2009 deadlines.
The following are member partners: the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, the British Columbia Arts Council, the Canada Council for the Arts, the City of Vancouver, the Manitoba Arts Council, the New Brunswick Department of Wellness, Culture and Sport, the Ontario Arts Council, the Saskatchewan Arts Board and Toronto Arts Council. Discussions are ongoing with other provincial, territorial and municipal arts funders to encourage them to join the partnership.
In addition, the CADAC initiative has supporting partners: the Department of Canadian Heritage, the Ontario Cultural Attractions Fund, the Ontario Ministry of Culture, the Ontario Trillium Foundation and the City of Toronto.
CADAC was originally conceived by the Intergovernmental Roundtable of Arts Funders and Foundations (IRAFF) in Ontario and shepherded through the development phase by the Ontario Arts Council.
The Canada Council for the Arts is the secretariat and host for CADAC.
For more information: CADACInfo@thecadac.ca
Sunday, December 7, 2008
Friday, December 5, 2008
Sudbury Performing Arts Centre on hold due to nickel prices
We don't like to say we told you so, but...
This year NetGain completed a review of another consultant's feasibility study for a new performing arts centre in the city of Sudbury. We saw many similarities between the anticipated problems and success of this PAC and the North York Performing Arts Centre, for which we have completed a series of studies over the past 7 years or so.
At the time, the Greater Sudbury city committee leading the process wanted to build a centre of about 1800 seats, which we felt was far too large for the city, its current arts/culture market and its stated goals of revitalizing business downtown and serving the local arts community. This size was already being debated within the arts community itself. In fact, one of the things we mentioned in our final report to the client was to be very cautious, because a downturn in nickel prices could severely affect the city's fortunes and their ability and desire to subsidize a new PAC in perpetuity. Lo and behold, the following article came out this week.
Report on Business:
Closed mines, broken dreams in the town that nickel built
ANDY HOFFMAN
From Friday's Globe and Mail
December 5, 2008 at 12:56 AM EST
SUDBURY, ONT. — When John Rodriguez became Mayor of Sudbury in November, 2006, things had never looked better for the city whose economic fortunes have always been inextricably linked to the price of nickel.
The price of the metal was rocketing to record levels and Mr. Rodriguez saw opportunity for Sudbury to spiff up its image and shed its reputation as a hardscrabble mining town beholden to the vagaries of the boom and bust commodity cycle.
He unveiled plans for a massive recreation complex and a $167-million performing arts centre. Mr. Rodriguez planned to tap the new foreign owners of the region's major nickel operations for cash. Brazil's Companhia Vale do Rio Doce and Swiss-based Xstrata PLC had just shelled out nearly $40-billion combined to buy in to the Sudbury Basin. “I was going to ask for big bucks,” Mr. Rodriguez said in an interview.
Yet the mayor's dreams of building a world-class performing arts centre are now on hold. Vale and Xstrata are cutting production in Sudbury and closing mines because of a sudden and severe crash in base metal prices brought on by the global financial crisis.
“This is not the time to do it because the economy is falling apart,” he said.
Read the rest of the article here.
This year NetGain completed a review of another consultant's feasibility study for a new performing arts centre in the city of Sudbury. We saw many similarities between the anticipated problems and success of this PAC and the North York Performing Arts Centre, for which we have completed a series of studies over the past 7 years or so.
At the time, the Greater Sudbury city committee leading the process wanted to build a centre of about 1800 seats, which we felt was far too large for the city, its current arts/culture market and its stated goals of revitalizing business downtown and serving the local arts community. This size was already being debated within the arts community itself. In fact, one of the things we mentioned in our final report to the client was to be very cautious, because a downturn in nickel prices could severely affect the city's fortunes and their ability and desire to subsidize a new PAC in perpetuity. Lo and behold, the following article came out this week.
Report on Business:
Closed mines, broken dreams in the town that nickel built
ANDY HOFFMAN
From Friday's Globe and Mail
December 5, 2008 at 12:56 AM EST
SUDBURY, ONT. — When John Rodriguez became Mayor of Sudbury in November, 2006, things had never looked better for the city whose economic fortunes have always been inextricably linked to the price of nickel.
The price of the metal was rocketing to record levels and Mr. Rodriguez saw opportunity for Sudbury to spiff up its image and shed its reputation as a hardscrabble mining town beholden to the vagaries of the boom and bust commodity cycle.
He unveiled plans for a massive recreation complex and a $167-million performing arts centre. Mr. Rodriguez planned to tap the new foreign owners of the region's major nickel operations for cash. Brazil's Companhia Vale do Rio Doce and Swiss-based Xstrata PLC had just shelled out nearly $40-billion combined to buy in to the Sudbury Basin. “I was going to ask for big bucks,” Mr. Rodriguez said in an interview.
Yet the mayor's dreams of building a world-class performing arts centre are now on hold. Vale and Xstrata are cutting production in Sudbury and closing mines because of a sudden and severe crash in base metal prices brought on by the global financial crisis.
“This is not the time to do it because the economy is falling apart,” he said.
Read the rest of the article here.
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