20 March 2009
THE CLIENT
The Netherlands Fund for Performing Arts+ (Nederlands Fonds voor Podiumkunsten - NFPK+) brings together all the performing arts disciplines into a single organisation that considers the entire chain, from creating and producing to programming and audience-building.
The Dutch Funding Organisation makes awards to professional arts organizations and individuals using a peer assessment process. The Netherlands is home to many companies, ensembles, orchestras and creators respected around the world. There is a well-equipped and well-distributed network of venues to exhibit the entire range of disciplines. NFPK works to retain and enhance what is already good and to help streamline those areas that require improvement.
This naturally presupposes the existence of a wellfunctioning funding structure.
GRANT MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE
NFPK decided to implement Quest’s AIMS Grant Management Solution to provide more efficient and effective ways to deliver services to grant applicants.
The AIMS System will be used to gather information from artists and organisations which is fed into the AIMS database where all information on each client is centrally stored and easily retrieved. Each Grant Application will follow an electronic "workflow" to ensure all applications are processed and assessed fairly and in the same way.
The new Grant Management solution will provide NFPK staff with “information at their fingertips”, and will as a result, offer more efficient communication with artists and organisations.
NFPK+ will use the new software to ensure closer contact with the sector and improve transparency, accessibility, visibility and administrative procedures. In doing so, it will seek to strike the right balance between continuity and a satisfactory degree of flexibility.