In 2016, CPAMO designed and delivered its first Cultural Pluralism in the Arts Movement Pluralism Organizational Change Project (CPAMOPOC – https://cpamo.org/equity-education-in-the-arts//). CPAMO has developed and delivered this project to 4 cohorts of diverse arts organizations – arts services, creation-based small, medium and large – involving between 10-16 organizations per cohort for a total of 60 organizational participants.
CPAMOPOC’s structure and delivery methods have remained somewhat the same for each cohort. However, changes have been introduced for each cohort based on external evaluations conducted at the end of each project.
CPAMO’s current cohort is in collaboration with the Saskatchewan Association of Theatre Professionals (SATP – https://sasktheatreprofessionals.ca). This cohort began in the winter of 2022 and will conclude in May/June 2023. At this stage, CPAMO and SATP are looking to engage an external resource to evaluate CPAMOPOC 4 (https://cpamo.org/equity-education-in-the-arts/cpamo-poc-cohort-4/)
Background:
CPAMOPOC evaluations have been conducted to:
- identify program challenges and strengths and capture recommendations for future cohorts; and
- assist in determining participant experience as to its relevance.
- the desire to have more opportunities for sharing and networking within the cohort and more support for developing and implementing their Action Plans;
- the need to plan how to sustain this focus within their organization post-program completion.
Scope of Review:
CPAMOPOC runs for 18 months with participants meeting for between 8 and 3 hours per month. It has 3 major components:
- Understanding where each participant organization is at on these issues. This is done by having participants make 20 minutes presentations on their related initiatives and receiving comments/feedback using the Critical Response Process (CRP);
- Convening 2 4-hour facilitated sessions every other month with external expertise on the 5 main issues CPAMOPOC addresses in its goals and objectives: Organizational Leadership/Personal Accountability; Community Engagement; Programming and Decision-making Involving IBPOC arts; Conflict Resolution; Employment Equity; and
- Convening 3-hour action planning sessions involving CPAMO Program Associates and external facilitators to support/guide program participants. CPAMO Program Associates also meet with selected participants in-between sessions
In addition, participants are invited to attend CPAMO’s bi-annual Gathering Divergence: Multi-Arts Festival (https://cpamo.org/the-gathering/). Some have participated as panelists for various sessions.
To conduct an effective evaluation of this program, interested applicants will be required to:
- Understand CPAMOPOC’s Goals, Objectives, Methodologies, resources provided and staffing;
- Assess the Attendance, Structure And Scheduling of the various sessions, including materials provided by project participants, CPAMO and external facilitators;
- Assess Session Design, Tools And Content;
- Assess Program Impact on participants’ knowledge, commitment and change work supported by CPAMOPOC, including implementation and planning for sustainability.
It is anticipated that the evaluation will occur between February and May of 2023. Interested consultants are to submit a proposal indicating how they would carry out this evaluation, with particular attention to time required for each section of the review.
The total budget for this project is $12,000, exclusive of HST. Interested applicants should submit proposals by February 10, 2023. The selected applicant should be ready to engage by February 23.
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Lillian Allen is an acclaimed foremother of Canadian Poetry. She is a poet, writer/performer, and a long-time arts activist. She is an international exponent of dub poetry with its politically charged reggae-infused aesthetic of resistance, a call to poetic arms. Lillian has also been a successful Cultural Strategist who played a key role in transforming the Toronto and Canadian cultural landscapes and is a mentor to the mentors, mentoring individuals and groups across many cultures. Termed a ‘cultural de-programmer’ in the arts, she imagined initiated and led community-building BIPOC youth-supporting programs such as Fresh Elements and Fresh Arts as well as net works and programs such as Groundings and Minquon Panchayat. She has received numerous accolades and awards and is the recipient of The Toronto Cultural Champions Award, The Margo Bindhardt Award for significantly impacting the arts in Toronto through both creative work and activism, the William P. Hubbard Award for Race Relations. Lillian is the author of Make the World New- selected works, old & new, edited by Ronald Cummings, WLU Press 2021, other books include Women Do this Every Day, Psychic Unrest, plus books and recordings for children and young people. Also a globally recognized recording artist, Ms. Allen is a two-time Canadian Juno award winner for her recordings Conditions Critical, and for Revolutionary Tea Party which was recently nominated for the prestigious Polaris Heritage Prize in Canada. A creative writing professor at OCAD University, she initiated and led the development of a BFA in Creative Writing Program that acknowledges community connected writing, traditional and new writing forms and writing as possibility as service and transformational possibilities. 
Cultural Pluralism in the Arts Movement Ontario (CPAMO) 
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