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Category Archives: Leadership
Alternatives to Creating “Yet Another” NonProfit Arts Organization
When artists and creative sector groups begin to face the need to fundraise and establish a more organized and permanent structure for the projects they want to develop, the question I am most frequently asked is: “How do we form a nonprofit society?” followed closely by “Where do we get grants and how do we [...]
Posted in Capacity Development, Community Benefit, Leadership, Professional Development
Tagged Arts, Governance, Management, policy, ponderings
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Advice to an overworked arts manager
Here’s the summary of a conversation I recently had with a member of an Artist-Run Centre’s management collective. I sit on the Board, and chair the HR committee:
Posted in Capacity Development, Leadership, Professional Development
Tagged Artist-run centres, Arts, Management
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Leading your own life
Leadership and entrepreneurial qualities are very similar. And career self-managers must develop these qualities in order to lead themselves in their own lives and livelihoods….
Leadership is generally assumed to be a set of skills and qualities that are applied in relationship to other people – peers, subordinates, family, work groups, etc. But those very same [...]
Posted in Capacity Development, Leadership
Tagged encouragement, Leadership, ponderings
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Getting Your Voice Heard
It seems to me that most everyone who has suffered the consequences of funding cutbacks and layoffs and challenges to their existence is now clamoring to be heard by government or other ‘power brokers’. Most of what I hear is a plea for acknowledgement of the importance of the work we do, the community we [...]
Posted in Advocacy, Capacity Development, Leadership
Tagged Advocacy, Governance, policy
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