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Our top goal, as determined by the board at their retreat, is to make the Arts Council more financially stable. Our goal is to increase membership by a minimum of 10% each year over the next two years. This would allow us to achieve our second goal of producing one new art project each year for the next two years. This would address two of the long-term strategic outcomes identified by Southwest Minnesota Arts Council: the arts are interwoven into every facet of community life and people of all ages, ethnicities, and abilities participate in the arts. We can easily see if we have achieved each of these goals. We have a record of membership donations so we can readily see if it has increased by the desired amount. We will know if we had a successful new art project each year.
We believe we met both of our goals and objectives: the arts are interwoven into every facet of community life and people of all ages, ethnicities and abilities participate in the arts. Literally thousands of people see the painted traffic signal boxes every day since they are on First Street. Since it is the main north/south highway in town it is impossible to not see them. And we believe Celebrate Art! Celebrate Coffee! We had the highest attendance ever. One of our goals was to increase membership by 10% each year of the two year period. We did not reach that goal in year one, but in year two we increased it by 12%. While we realize this is a modest gain, it is a start in the right direction.
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