Someone Who Speaks Their Language: How a Nontraditional Partner Brought New Audiences to Minnesota Opera
“Learn how an opera company found new audience members among women ages 35 to 60.” – Author(s): Bob Harlow and Cindy Cox Roman
The Road to Results: Effective Practices for Building Arts Audiences
This report identifies and examines nine practices of arts organizations that successfully expanded their audiences.
Conference 2014: Highlights
Member-only ContentThis year, close to 1,000 orchestra professionals, volunteers and business partners gathered in Seattle for the League’s 2014 National Conference. Here are some of the highlights.
SMART: Strategy and Money Alignment Readiness Tool
Member-only ContentYou have the vision. You have the plan. Can you afford it? The answer is right there on your balance sheet – and SMART (Strategy and Money Alignment Readiness Tool) will help you see it clearly.
Engaging Your Board in Fundraising – A Staff’s Guide
Member-only ContentBoard participation in fundraising is a perennial challenge for many, if not most, nonprofit organizations. This webinar approaches the issue by asking – what is keeping the staff from being more successful in engaging the board in fundraising?
Hitting the Right Notes: Capital Campaign Trends and Fundamentals for Success
Member-only Contentapital campaigns are an important part of the fundraising cycle for any orchestra, large or small. While many of the tried and true principles of effective campaign fundraising remain the same, changing demographics and global and industry trends have required that orchestras innovate and strategies evolve.
Orchestra Repertoire Report (ORR) 2012-2013
In 1970, the League of American Orchestras began to track member orchestras’ programming through its Orchestra Repertoire Report (ORR), in order to answer queries from grantmakers, journalists, musicologists, historians, and member orchestras.
Assessing Your Financial Health
In the continuing effort to provide help to League member orchestras, we would like to offer you this free Financial Health self-assessment tool developed by the Nonprofit Finance Fund. It is a simple worksheet that addresses core areas of nonprofit finance and helps to identify areas of financial strength and weakness.
Moves Management® and Developing your Major Donor Pipeline!
Member-only ContentMoves Management® isn’t just about portfolios, coding and moves. It is a comprehensive approach for your development operation that will bring major gift prospects closer to your orchestra through a series of strategic steps. Adopting a Moves Management® system that incorporates creative cultivation opportunities and strategies to generate a high-level of activity is the key to establishing a healthy major donor pipeline.
Nonprofit Listening Post
As vital participants in the U.S. nonprofit community, orchestras contribute to the substantial public value produced by the nation’s charitable sector, and are likewise impacted by the policies and environment for nonprofits nationwide. The League and 75 member orchestras are participants in the Nonprofit Listening Post Project, an initiative of the Johns Hopkins Center for Civil Society Studies.