Operating Support
Operating Support
CLIMB Theatre's mission is to inspire and propel people toward actions that benefit themselves, each other, and their community through plays, classes, and other collaborative works.
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
CLIMB Theatre develops new outreach strategies and systems to ensure programing reflects and responds to changing community needs and interest. CLIMB will see an increase in new bookings and the number of re-bookings. We will survey organizations we've visited to see if those communities felt reflected in the programming, and if the issues addressed were relevant to their communities. 2: CLIMB will diversify and acquire new funding sources that reduce/eliminate cost while increasing pay to exceed industry standards. CLIMB will evaluate and consider this outcome a success if: -Staff pay increases by 7%-CLIMB will acquire three new funding sources-CLIMB's current funders increase funding.
CLIMB Theatre developed new outreach strategies and systems to ensure programming reflects and responds to changing community needs and interest. CLIMB tracks long-term, multi-year residencies and saw an increase of 30% repeating multi-visit programs. 2: CLIMB reduced costs while increasing pay to exceed industry standards and close pay gaps between employees. CLIMB saw an increase in funding from current funders and is budgeted to increase Resident Artists Salaries by 30%.
Other, local or private