Board Room: The Engaged Board
Our inaugural Board Room column is an excerpt from Susan Howlett’s Boards on Fire! Inspiring Leaders to Raise Money Joyfully, a new manual that helps board members fulfill their responsibilities.
Board Room: Leadership, Communication, Relationships
An experienced board chair on what it takes to lead.
Charting a Path
Board members are on the front lines as orchestras maneuver through thorny economic and cultural challenges. Two distinguished leaders discuss what it takes to be an effective board member today.
Inspiring Leadership from the Unsung Hero
Richard Worley, who recently stepped down after a 10-year tenure as chairman of the Board of The Philadelphia Orchestra Association, spoke to League Board Member Marisa Eisemann at the March 2021 Trustee Constituency Meeting.
Conference 2021: Meaningful Metrics
Member-only ContentIdentifying and capturing meaningful data for Education and Community Engagement (EdCE) programming has never been easy. The shift to digital over the last year opened up both challenges and possibilities. Rather than default to reporting the number of views and clicks on a website, orchestra staff have sought to find new and more compelling ways to convey the impact and quality of their programs. In this interactive session, evaluation experts from the highly-regarded consultancy WolfBrown challenge participants to rethink reporting based on their work with cultural organizations across the U.S. Community and education staff from three orchestras will answer this challenge by sharing new or evolving approaches to internal and external reporting.
Carmen Amalia Corrales, Chris Doerr, Afa S. Dworkin, Gary Ginstling, Lina González-Granados, Andrea Kalyn, and Robert Naparstek Join League of American Orchestras Board of Directors
Seven new board members have joined the Board of Directors of the League of American Orchestras. Additionally, seven ex-officio members will serve on the Board for the 2021-22 fiscal year.
July 2021 Media Briefing: Creativity Transcends Zip Code
Orchestras are at the epicenter of American artistic ingenuity. Our new series of periodic media briefings spotlights the stories and trends you might have missed, highlighting the spirit of innovation found at orchestras across the country.
African Diaspora Music Project
An online repository of concert works by composers of the African Diaspora.
The Flywheel
Unlike the traditional marketing funnel, the Flywheel factors in word of mouth and momentum. Capacity Interactive’s Erik Genlser contextualizes this model for arts administrators.
The Music of Community Change
Centered on the question “What is, and what should be, the role of creative placemaking in communities undergoing change?” a new report from Slover Linett about a major placemaking project in Denver holds significant learning for orchestras about how to enter into community work with humility and build toward outcomes that create belonging and social cohesion.