Operating Support
Operating Support
To practice the art of growing a connected, healthy community empowered to create and thrive.
Peggy Burnet: entrepreneur, art collector, and community volunteer; Uri Camarena: director of business consulting with Metroplitan Economic Development Association (MEDA); Michael Charron: arts educator and an arts and civic leader; Richard Cohen: attorney in private practice and a former state legislator; Sean Dowse: arts advocate, arts practitioner, and civic leader; Anthony Gardner, vice president, marketing and communications at CentraCare; Philip McKenzie: team lead with Boutique Air, founder and owner of Bluedoor 74, adjunct college faculty; Mary McReynolds-Pellinen: executive director, Lyric Center for the Arts; Dobson West: retired attorney; Christina Widdess: nonprofit consultant; former managing director, Penumbra Theatre
Peggy Burnet: entrepreneur, art collector, and community volunteer; Uri Camarena: director of business consulting with Metroplitan Economic Development Association (MEDA); Michael Charron: arts educator and an arts and civic leader; Richard Cohen: attorney in private practice and a former state legislator; Sean Dowse: arts advocate, arts practitioner, and civic leader; Anthony Gardner, vice president, marketing and communications at CentraCare; Philip McKenzie: team lead with Boutique Air, founder and owner of Bluedoor 74, adjunct college faculty; Mary McReynolds-Pellinen: executive director, Lyric Center for the Arts; Dobson West: retired attorney; Christina Widdess: nonprofit consultant; former managing director, Penumbra Theatre
ACHF Arts Access
By 2025 15% of staff and 25% of the board will be people of color and indigenous people. Annual surveys will ask board and staff to self identify ethnic/racial background. 2: Zeitgeist arts and cultural programming will strengthen people's connection and commitment to the community and to each other Survey program participant attitudes regarding programming effects re: strengthen connections and commitment to the community and to each other.
The outcome goal is listed as 2025, but Covid has slowed interim progress and systems development. Progress is expected in 2022 and 2023. Outcome 1 will be measured by a demographic survey. The survey was piloted pre-COVID and will be reinstated as capacity allows prior to 2025 reporting. 2: Zeitgeist programming engaged numerous artists, audience members, and community partners and kept them working and committed in the NE MN community. Survey evaluation systems still need to be implemented. COVID impacts have reduced capacity and the development of other training and management systems has taken priority. MSAB outcome tracking progress is expected to continue in 2022 and 2023.
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