Small Arts Organization Development

More Minnesotans, especially those in the Southwest Minnesota Region, will be able to participate in the arts.OBJECTIVES: 1. Full engagement and accountability of the Board in the Fund Raising Program. 2. Identification of stories of success in delivering our mission, quantified community impact. 3. Have a common presentation understood by the whole organization and used in all fund raising activities. 4. Have in place ongoing processes for tracking and improvement. 5. Have an implemented plan for making the fund raising program part of the organizational memory. We will have achieved the balance between income sources in our Business Model AND met the income goals by December 2014. These will be measured by our financial reporting and by donor acquisition and retention measures built into the Business Management System which will be being developed simultaneously through an ArtsLab grant. These results will be communicated to the Board, appropriate funders such as the City and the Founders’ Club and our Partner Organizations. The second measurement is retention/sustainability. Can we hold these incomes and sources in 2015 and beyond? Again, the measurement tools will be built in to our financial reporting and the Business Management System. Time frame will be monthly review and assessment with final report December 2015. Evaluation tools will be developed to monitor our progress and success. As of this application, those tools have not been designed pending completion of the plan. The attached dashboard reports are typical of the evaluation and communication tools we will develop.