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September 2, 2021
Assessing Your Orchestra
Evaluate your orchestra’s strategy and success in the community.
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August 12, 2021
Boardroom Chemistry: Getting Your Board to Govern as a Team
Every board struggles with group dynamics — the ways in which individual board members interact with each other and function (or don't) as an effective team. Successful boards have figured out how to make the most of the various relationships (chief executive to board, board chair to board, and board member to board member) so that the work of the board assumes greater importance than any individual or relationship.
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August 11, 2021
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.
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August 10, 2021
Board Room: Leadership, Communication, Relationships
An experienced board chair on what it takes to lead.
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August 10, 2021
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.
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August 10, 2021
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.
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June 28, 2021
At the League: How Can We Help?
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June 28, 2021
Board Room: How Orchestra Boards Can Advance Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
A new guide from the League of American Orchestras makes the case for the vital importance of equity, diversity, and inclusion at orchestras—from the board perspective. How Orchestra Boards Can Advance Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion discusses the urgency of this work and offers practical advice, contextual information, and strategies for boards and orchestras to become truly representative of the communities they serve.
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April 28, 2021
Board Room: Passing the Baton
The transition of board leadership at orchestras is always a delicate balancing act, and the pandemic has presented unprecedented challenges to board chairs—as well as unexpected opportunities. Here, incoming and outgoing board chairs at three orchestras reveal how they view their roles, what they foresee for the future, and how they got involved with orchestras in the first place.
