Iowa Administrative Code › Agency 221 - Cultural Affairs Department › Chapter 6 - Iowa Community Cultural Grants (ICCG) Program › Rule 221-6.3 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 47, No. 3, July 24, 2024
The following definitions shall apply when used in this chapter
				unless otherwise noted:
"Advisory committee "
means the committee
				comprised of at least three representatives from across the state with
				expertise in the arts, history, and economic development. The advisory
				committee shall review each application and make recommendations to the
				director for funding of eligible projects.
"Application "
means an official ICCG
				application form as provided by the department.
"Community group"
means an Iowa nonprofit,
				tax-exempt organization which is open to the general public and established for
				the promotion and development of one or more of the following disciplines or
				activities: the arts, history, culture, ethnicity, historic preservation,
				tourism, economic development, festivals, or municipal libraries. Community
				group" shall not include a school, college, university, political party, labor
				union, state or federal government agency, religious organization, church,
				convention, or association of churches operated primarily for religious
				purposes, or operated, supervised, controlled or principally supported by a
				religious organization, church, convention, or association of churches.
				"Community group" also shall not include any organization whose primary purpose
				is to support any excluded type of organization.
"Department"
means the Iowa department of
				cultural affairs (DCA).
"Director"
means the director of the
				department of cultural affairs, or designee.
"Eligible activity"
means a qualified
				festival; performing, visual, or literary arts project; historic preservation,
				museum, tourism, or ethnic heritage project which will enhance Iowa's cultural
				climate, and which will provide jobs for lowans while serving the general
				public.
"Eligible applicant"
means an incorporated
				city in Iowa, county government, tribal council, or an Iowa community group
				which is federally tax-exempt under United States Internal Revenue Code Section
				501(c)(3) and incorporated under the Iowa nonprofit corporation Act. Iowa
				community groups may apply for ICCG funds through a fiscal agent which is
				federally tax-exempt and otherwise eligible to apply.
"Fiscal agent"
means an organization which
				meets the definition of eligible applicant, and which serves as the legal
				applicant of record, redistributes the funds to the intended receiver, and is
				responsible for all published requirements of the ICCG program including
				contracts, budgets, fiscal records, and reports.
"Grantee"
means any applicant receiving grant
				funds under the ICCG program.
"ICCG"
means the Iowa community cultural
				grants program as administered by the department.
"In-kind contribution "
means a noncash
				contribution provided by a grantee as a part of the grantee's matching share of
				a project.
"Matching funds "
means those funds which are
				locally contributed for the specifically funded project and which, when
				combined with in-kind contributions, shall equal at least 50 percent or more of
				the total project cost. Matching funds shall be provided by the eligible
				applicant and shall not include any portion of another department of cultural
				affairs, Iowa arts council, or state historical society of Iowa grant.
"Proposed project"
means an eligible activity
				for which an eligible applicant has submitted a single application for funding
				of a single project.