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MAKING MEANINGFUL CONNECTIONS Characteristics of Arts Groups that Engage New and Diverse Participants
Forward-thinking arts organizations realize that successfully diversifying participants requires holistic strategies involving all parts of the organization.
CORE COMMITMENTS Success in engaging new audiences depends on explicit, sustained and organization-wide commitments in three areas.
MISSION
LEADERSHIP
Commitment to engaging diverse participants is clear in the organization’s mission and implemented throughout all of its activities.
Leaders in all parts of the organization embody the commitment to inclusion and engagement. Members of the communities that the organization wishes to reach are in positions of power.
CULTURAL COMPETENCE Organization examines its own assumptions, respects divergent perspectives and engages in continuous learning about culturally and economically diverse people.
ORGANIZATIONAL PRACTICES Core commitments come to life when demonstrated through five organizational practices. These practices are highly interrelated and interdependent. They interact with and influence each other.
WELCOMING SPACES Physical spaces are designed and programmed to be inviting and comfortable for all.
RESPECTFUL RELATIONSHIPS
RELEVANT PROGRAMMING
Organization understands the cultural context and history of the communities it seeks to engage, and works respectfully with cultural leaders in these communities.
Programming includes artistic work created by, for and about diverse participants. Curatorial staff is diverse in culture and background.
ARTS ENGAGEMENT
ANALYSIS FOR IMPROVEMENT
BUSINESS MODEL
Organization conducts continuous data-gathering and analysis to learn about its community, assess its efforts and improve its effectiveness.
Commitment to diversifying participants goes beyond project grant funding, and is integrated into long-term business model and financial projections.
DIFFERENT STARTING POINTS, PROGRESS TOWARD BALANCE These practices are present in differing strengths in different organizations but come into balance as an organization works to achieve effective and sustainable arts engagement.
Sample starting point
Learn more and access materials at irvine.org/artsengagement. FOCUS
FOCUS
A RegionalFindings Research Nonprofit Sector Report
Getting In On the Act How arts groups are creating opportunities for active participation Alan S. Brown and Jennifer L. Novak-Leonard, in partnership with Shelly Gilbride, Ph.D.
FOCUS
A Regional Arts Engagement Nonprofit Research Sector Report
A Regional Arts Engagement Nonprofit Research Sector Report
Making Meaningful Connections
Why “Where”? Because “Who”
Characteristics of arts groups that engage new and diverse participants
Arts venues, spaces and tradition Brent Reidy, AEA Consulting
Holly Sidford, Alexis Frasz and Marcelle Hinand
O C T O B ER 2011
JULY 2 0 1 4
DECEMBER 2 014
In progress
In balance
Forward-thinking arts organizations realize that successfully diversifying participants requires holistic strategies involving all parts of the organization.
CORE COMMITMENTS Success in engaging new audiences depends on explicit, sustained and organization-wide commitments in three areas.
MISSION
LEADERSHIP
Commitment to engaging diverse participants is clear in the organization’s mission and implemented throughout all of its activities.
Leaders in all parts of the organization embody the commitment to inclusion and engagement. Members of the communities that the organization wishes to reach are in positions of power.
CULTURAL COMPETENCE Organization examines its own assumptions, respects divergent perspectives and engages in continuous learning about culturally and economically diverse people.
ORGANIZATIONAL PRACTICES Core commitments come to life when demonstrated through five organizational practices. These practices are highly interrelated and interdependent. They interact with and influence each other.
WELCOMING SPACES Physical spaces are designed and programmed to be inviting and comfortable for all.
RESPECTFUL RELATIONSHIPS
RELEVANT PROGRAMMING
Organization understands the cultural context and history of the communities it seeks to engage, and works respectfully with cultural leaders in these communities.
Programming includes artistic work created by, for and about diverse participants. Curatorial staff is diverse in culture and background.
ARTS ENGAGEMENT
ANALYSIS FOR IMPROVEMENT
BUSINESS MODEL
Organization conducts continuous data-gathering and analysis to learn about its community, assess its efforts and improve its effectiveness.
Commitment to diversifying participants goes beyond project grant funding, and is integrated into long-term business model and financial projections.
DIFFERENT STARTING POINTS, PROGRESS TOWARD BALANCE These practices are present in differing strengths in different organizations but come into balance as an organization works to achieve effective and sustainable arts engagement.
Sample starting point
Learn more and access materials at irvine.org/artsengagement. FOCUS
FOCUS
A RegionalFindings Research Nonprofit Sector Report
Getting In On the Act How arts groups are creating opportunities for active participation Alan S. Brown and Jennifer L. Novak-Leonard, in partnership with Shelly Gilbride, Ph.D.
FOCUS
A Regional Arts Engagement Nonprofit Research Sector Report
A Regional Arts Engagement Nonprofit Research Sector Report
Making Meaningful Connections
Why “Where”? Because “Who”
Characteristics of arts groups that engage new and diverse participants
Arts venues, spaces and tradition Brent Reidy, AEA Consulting
Holly Sidford, Alexis Frasz and Marcelle Hinand
O C T O B ER 2011
JULY 2 0 1 4
DECEMBER 2 014
In progress
In balance
