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According to the attachment, write four response The Massachusetts Cultural Council's Organizational Support Program is a general operating grant that supported nonprofit arts, humanities, and interpretive science organizations throughout the state. Students will take the role of panelists: review four actual grants submitted to this program; discuss proposals in a standard panel format; score each one based on the program’s guidelines; and, ultimately, decide whether to award funds. This review will be conducted through a panel process typical of all state arts agencies as well as most corporate and some independent foundations. Role of Panel Peer-review panels are constituted in various fashions depending on the requirements of specific program categories. In most cases, panels include discipline professionals informed on the issues relative to specific funding categories. Panels are constituted to represent a broad range of demographic factors and artistic disciplines. Panels may include out-of-state panelists to provide increased objectivity and a national perspective. No panelist serves more than three consecutive years on the panel of any one program. To achieve continuity in the panel process, one or two panelists are invited to repeat service each year. Note: Organizations have been instructed that a panel of arts professionals and other individuals with relevant experience, will review all applications according to the performance expectations. Applicants are further advised that panelists are from both inside and outside Massachusetts who may be unfamiliar with the state’s organizations, artists, and/or communities. Initial Post: For this module, you will review four different grants. Given the requirements and grading scale of the foundation’s criteria, you will ultimately decide if the grant should be funded, supported by a numerical score and your funder’s notes. For each grant, indicate why or why not you have chosen to fund this proposal, considering proposal quality, community involvement/benefit, and organizational capacity. You will have four responses in total, and each response should be no more than 100 words. At the end of the week, I will post the actual scores from these real-life proposals. Consider the following questions in your evaluation: Does the grant proposal leave you wanting more, or needing more? Is the writing style a strength or weakness? Do you have questions regarding the organization’s capacity? Does the quality of programs meet the standards of excellence for the discipline? How involved is the board? Does the organizational budget present more questions than answers? Does the grant present a complete case for support? Is the organization’s mission well represented? you will have four responses in total, and each response should be no more than 100 words. you will have four responses in total, and each response should be no more than 100 words. you will have four responses in total, and each response should be no more than 100 words. source..