Category Archives: Professional Development

Alternatives to Creating “Yet Another” NonProfit Arts Organization

Posted on April 3, 2009 by Judi

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 [...]

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Advice to an overworked arts manager

Posted on December 17, 2008 by Judi

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:

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On employment and unemployment..

Posted on July 15, 2006 by Judi

I worry about the latest growth industry in our community: the Employment Industry. Think about it. Here we have a changing world of work, where lifetime employment is a thing of the past, where the ‘hard’ skills we train for can be made redundant by technology, change is rapid, economies are global, the ‘knowledge economy’ [...]

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