The following section is excerpted from the contract your organization signed in order to receive a grant from the MCC. It explains the legal requirements for crediting the MCC. The MCC is referred to as MCC or as the Council; your organization is the Contractor. Compliance with these requirements will be reviewed in grant reports and as part of future grant requests made by your organization.

CREDIT

• MCC Credit Logo. MCC must be credited by using the Council’s current credit logo. Logos are downloadable from this site or can be requested from the Communications Department. The logo must be produced as a unit without alteration.

• Promotional Materials. Credit must be given by using the MCC logo in printed materials (including season and subscription brochures, newsletters, press releases, advertisements, and announcements) as well as in films or videos. Any promotional material (regardless of size or length) prepared by the Contractor, that credits another funding source, must also credit the Council.

• Online Materials. Use the credit logo prominently in online materials (including web sites, listservs, blogs, electronically distributed releases and intranets) to which your grant contributes. The electronic logo should link to the MCC web site, www.massculturalcouncil.org. Do not use the logo on surveys.

• Programs/Playbills. Credit must be given on the title page of all programs printed by a grant recipient in a type size not smaller than 7 point.

• Exhibition Signage. For any exhibition presented with funding from the Council, the wall text must include the Council listed with other major public, private and corporate sponsors, in proportional order of the size of contribution. If there is no sponsor list in the wall text, a placard must be placed at the entrance to the exhibit crediting the Council. Non-written announcements apply to such situations as radio broadcasts and audio descriptions for people who are hearing impaired.

• Educational Materials. Credit must be given to the Council in all educational materials distributed in association with any Council-funded program/exhibition, such as brochures, pamphlets, flyers, etc.

• Verbal Credit. When written credit is not applicable, such as when there is no printed program, verbal credit shall be given prior to each performance. If an announcement is not feasible, a sign must be placed in the lobby crediting the Council.

• Donor Recognition. Any wall plaques or advertisements that acknowledge the Contractor’s annual or ongoing support from corporations and/or foundations must also acknowledge the Council.

• Collaborators. Organizations that are official collaborators with the primary grant recipient must comply with these requirements. The Contractor is responsible for informing said collaborators of this policy and ensuring they fulfill these obligations.

• Co-sponsorship. Those programs that are "co-sponsored" will have additional, specific publicity requirements, dependent on the program at the time of negotiation. Under no circumstances may a Contractor state or imply that its programs and/or activities are "sponsored," "co-sponsored" or "presented" by the Council without expressed, written consent from the Council.

The Council reserves the right to negotiate additional requirements regarding credit and publicity on a case by case basis.