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October 26, 2020
Your Orchestra, Your Community: Roadmap to Success - Video Testimonials
Here is what the field has to say about Your Orchestra, Your Community.
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May 21, 2014
Engaging Your Board in Fundraising – A Staff’s Guide
Board 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?
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March 31, 2023
Human Resources Sample Documents
This set of Human Resources sample documents was developed by the League in the 2010s, with input from member orchestras. They reflect typical duties from a range of orchestras, gathered over several years to serve as reference points to support your work in planning for new positions, revising job descriptions, or considering new organizational processes.
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March 9, 2021
Making SMART Choices
Join Allison Crump of TDC for a 30-minute, easy to follow demonstration of the Strategy and Money Alignment Tool (SMART) that takes all the guesswork out of getting started.
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April 27, 2021
Re-Energizing Membership
Join the Volunteer Council as we explore new ideas and strategies to reinvigorate our volunteers. Topics include: evaluating your role as orchestra volunteers in a post-COVID world, diversifying your membership, recruiting and prospecting, how to engage and mentor new members, and best practices in recognizing, rewarding, and retaining members. Joining us will be Doris Parent, Vice President of Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Access Strategies (IDEAS) at The Philadelphia Orchestra.
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December 10, 2015
Watch the “Reimagining the Orchestra Subscription Model” webinar
The study is based on the largest sales data set from orchestras to date and is the first industry-wide, longitudinal study of ten years of data to focus on revenues and sales trends.
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May 14, 2020
Active Stewardship to Keep Donors
Now more than ever, we must focus and set goals for actively stewarding all donors of all sizes and in all stages. Cat New of RSC provides a practical, low-cost, and effective approach to donor stewardship and facilitates a discussion of what stewardship methods orchestras have found effective in this constituency session from the League's 2020 Online Conference.
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July 10, 2019
Music and Social Justice
A recent blossoming of orchestral works is opening conversations about today’s most pressing concerns. Orchestras and music institutions are creating an unprecedented number of programs whose social impact goes well beyond the music itself.
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May 5, 2020
Conference 2020 – Opening Session: Old vs. New Power with Deborah Borda, Anthony McGill, Jesse Rosen, and Henry Timms
We kicked off our online Conference with a performance by Anthony McGill, Principal Clarinet, NY Philharmonic and Board Member, League of American Orchestras.
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October 18, 2017
EdCE on the Rise
In August, the League of American Orchestras released Of and For the Community: Education and Community Engagement Work of Orchestras, which reveals marked growth in education and community engagement (EdCE) activity by orchestras between 2009 and 2014. Here are excerpts and highlights from the report.