Michael Page Miller | Fundraising, Governance, Management/Leadership
Are you part of the muddled mass of organizations frustrated by their board's effectiveness in raising dollars? Exhorting board members to get off their fannies and get moving rarely produces positive results. But, finding the right board leaders can yield rich dividends. We explore some of the best techniques for getting your board 'on board'.
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Frank Hood | Fundraising, Marketing/Public Relations, Operations, Recruitment, Technique/Tool
Like most choruses, you mail postcards, newsletters, reminders, and solicitations for donations on a regular basis. Unfortunately, you may be needlessly and unknowingly wasting money by not knowing enough about the costs and many options associated with mailing. The assumption that mail is just mail has never been more costly.
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Mary Ann de Barbieri | Governance, Strategic Planning
Choruses undergo many transitions in their life span—founder transitions, music director transitions, transitions from volunteer to paid staff. Perhaps the most delicate of these important transitions is the evolution from a singer board to a community board. This shift from a board comprised predominately of singers who have responsibility for every facet of the organization to a governing body with broad community representation can be both a challenging and lengthy process.
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Chorus America Staff | Governance, Recruitment
Developing a dynamic board requires identifying a pool of strong candidates, the ability to select the right ones for your organization, and an effective board orientation. It is also important to engage and educate your trustees, to have an effective board rotation plan, to ensure that your representation is diverse, and to evaluate performance so that your board improves with age. And of course, it is always important to show your appreciation to the trustees who give your arts organization its special personality.
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Kelsey Menehan | Community Outreach, Diversity, Education, Impact/Value
A chorus by its very nature is a collaboration - singers, instrumentalists, music directors, front-office staff—all, according to Webster, performing work or labor together, especially literary (read artistic) pursuits." So it comes as no surprise that choruses would extend that collaborative spirit beyond their own organizations.
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Smooth Sailing or Rough Seas?
Mary Ann de Barbieri | Careers, Conducting, Governance, Operations, Strategic Planning
What image comes to mind when you hear the term founder transition? Do you think tempest? Do you think sunset cruise? During my work as an arts management consultant I have encountered many organizations navigating a founder transition. This experience has given me a great deal of respect for those who have made successful founder transitions and is the basis for the observations and suggestions I share with organizations facing this important evolution.
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Berit Lakey | Diversity, Governance
There’s a good chance that, like many nonprofits, you aren’t happy with your attempts to achieve diversity. If your best-intentioned efforts are failing, consider these 10 steps to promoting inclusion on your board.
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Oliver Tessier | Governance, Management/Leadership
Few performing arts organizations need to be told they are unique. To start with, the leadership structure of performing arts groups is as distinctive from other nonprofits as performing arts groups are from each other. While most nonprofits divide leadership between the board and the chief executive, performing arts organizations include an artistic director and distribute leadership responsibility within a triad.
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