Excellence:

• OMAM’s Mission statement aptly and concisely describes the organization
• Offering an educational experience in connection with each exhibit (workshops, gallery walk, and/or outreach activities) based around the art on display is an excellent way to grow your attendance, membership, and audience participation. The experiential activities may help them appreciate/retain the information and/or entice them to become donors, friends of the museum, and tell others about their experience).
• Alternatively, at times, the goals and activities were used interchangeably, which made it hard to decipher the intent.
• The list of OMAM’s Partners is impressive and they are clearly listed with adequate descriptions of the contributions and value of the activities and/or relationship.
• Very minimal concerns about the organizations ability to carry out the programing

Impact:

• OMAM's impact on the local economy was enhanced by referencing AFTA’s Arts & Economic Prosperity 5 (prosperity calculator),  but a broader and more credible ROI can be achieved by AFTA's full-report filled with compelling quotes, statistical data, case studies).
• Educational and outreach components serve the community and are appropriate.
• The marketing and promotion plan (as proposed) will be appropriate and effective.
• Confident in the organizations ability to carry out the proposal and sustain the event.

Management:

• Evaluation Plan:
  • The intro about personnel performance evaluations does not seem relevant
  • Try to define what specific information the volunteer board of directors uses to guide decisions about goal setting?
  • Consider bringing in an external consultant to talk about strategic planning and assessment

Accessibility

• Appears to meet ADA accessibility criteria (504 Self Eval, compliance staff person, etc.)

Commitment to healing power of art appears genuine. Quality of programming could be stronger, or hard to determine from grant.

Excellence: Strong synopsis and mission statement. In operation since 1946. Goals and objectives can be communicated more clearly. By listing some goals before your activities and some within, it become difficult to follow. Under outreach, why are your objectives measured in educational hours? Is that the best way to demonstrate quality or scale of of offerings? Under Art of Healing in partnerships section, liked that you listed past projects to contextualize. Was unsure how Dogapalooza event was tied to your mission.

Impact: Strong economic and outreach impact. Could strengthen education section by listing number of classes instead of hours of education (or both).

Management: Very strong fiscal condition between operating reserves, endowment, assets, and lack of long term liability. Are you concerned that you do not own the building but are paying for major additions? Do you have a long-term lease?

Accessibility: Strong outreach programming. Does not mention whether the space is ADA compliant.

difficult to justify a local, national, international program 

clearly a beloved community space 

Might recommend rebranding as community and contemporary craft center