Explanation
This ordinance authorizes the City Clerk to enter into a grant agreement with Education Foundation for Freedom in support of the 2024 Women & Girls Fest: Empowering Young Voices event in August.
Education Foundation for Freedom’s missions focuses on promoting collective empowerment for diverse women and girls through arts, culture, education, entrepreneurship, and community well-being. The Women & Girls Fest provides a professional environment to support women and girl musicians and artists that promotes community equity by disrupting race-, gender-, and class-based opportunity gaps. The festival showcases women and girls in the arts, provides education and entrepreneurship opportunities, and connects to the Foundation’s larger programming available to uplift women and girls.
This grant agreement will support personnel, supplies, and services costs associated with the preparation for and operations of the 2024 Women & Girls Fest. No funds will be used for food and beverage costs.
Emergency legislation is required as the 2024 Women & Girls Fest takes place in August 25th, and funds used for deposit payments to contractors will be needed in advance of the event.
FISCAL IMPACT: Funding for this grant agreement is available within the 2024 Neighborhood Initiatives subfund.
Title
To authorize the City Clerk to enter into a grant agreement with Education Foundation for Freedom in support of the 2024 Women & Girls Fest; to authorize an appropriation and expenditure within the Neighborhood Initiatives subfund; and to declare an emergency. ($30,000.00)
Body
WHEREAS, the Education Foundation for Freedom seeks to disrupt gender-based opportunity gaps and provide a showcase for women and girls in the arts; and
WHEREAS, gender-based discrimination is an ongoing issue in the arts, resulting in a multi-billion-dollar gap in auction sales, an overwhelming bias towards men in artistic leadership roles, and deep disparities in creative roles in the film in...
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