Learn how the BSO reshaped its operating model into an integrated revenue system that aligns marketing, loyalty, philanthropy, and experiences around growing relationships and partnerships, not just selling tickets.
This practical session walks through the adjustments in tax policy that are likely to shape giving at the individual, corporate, and foundation levels in the coming years and what to expect from donors going forward.
In this session, we reframe “audience expansion” as an organizational mindset, not a marketing tactic. Aligning product, programming, partnerships, and patron experiences around shared audience goals strengthens financial sustainability, deepens community engagement, and advances equity and inclusion.
In this session, participants learned how to identify red flags in financial management, including financial statements, audits, and policies, that may indicate underlying risks.
Your team is probably already using AI, and the tools keep evolving at lightning speed. This workshop explored how to build an AI framework for your orchestra that will support innovation while providing clear guidelines for navigating an ever-changing tech landscape.
This session explored the cultural roots of the challenges orchestras face and presents practical tools to address them.
Learn about two orchestra case studies illustrating the journey from having only occasional touchpoints with students to developing a sustained youth pathway program by partnering with other organizations in the community.
This interactive session explored how orchestras across the country are reimagining their audition and tenure practices.
This highly interactive session presented a practical flow for donor conversations, transforming the “ask” into a guided dialogue that builds trust.
Learn from fresh examples of how orchestras and partners are literally putting the arts on the map, centering live events as a community asset, and working to protect human creativity and performances as technology rapidly advances.