LinkedIn helpfully reminded me that it’s been five years since I started Arts Progress, and it’s gone better than I could have imagined. In that span, we’ve had the privilege to work with a wide array of fantastic clients, including: Ann Bancroft Foundation, Art Shanty Projects, Brownbody, Chain Reaction Theater...
2017 was the biggest year yet for Arts Progress, with clients including Ann Bancroft Foundation, Brownbody, Forecast Public Art, Frank Theatre, Italian Cultural Center, Mixed Blood Theatre, Theater Mu, The O'Shaughnessy, Park Square Theatre, Playwrights' Center, Sheldon Theatre, Sod House Theater, SOS Theater, SteppingStone Theatre,...
It’s been a great 2017 so far, with lots of projects completed, and more on the horizon. Here’s a brief recap: Projects we’ve recently finished Mixed Blood Theatre– Safe at Home We managed marketing and audience logistics for this site-specific theater production, staged at the St. Paul Saints...
In my first year as an executive director at an arts nonprofit, I did a full overhaul of our database, moving from an aging MS Access/ SQL server platform to Salesforce. I did it because my staff was wasting time and energy on basic data...
In short, it was fantastic, and I highly recommend it. Pro tip: it helped immensely to delete the Facebook and Twitter apps from my phone. By spending less time on social media, here’s what happened: I have WAY more time to do more productive and/or enjoyable things,...
Turnover at the top can be a scary time for nonprofits. This is especially the case for founding directors and artistic leaders, since the personalities of the director and the organization can get intertwined. However, it’s an opportunity to re-examine structure and strategies, emerging in...
For the month of April, I'm working on so many cool projects that it'd be criminal not to share the news so you can take part as well. I'm doing interim management work at the Jungle Theater, while handling the search for their new managing director....
January: a time to reflect, while looking forward to new beginnings. I started Arts Progress just over two years ago, just to see how the freelance life would suit me. Turns out, I love it, and I've been incredibly lucky to have a steady stream...
At some point, every nonprofit is asked for evaluation results, usually by a funder. And the typical response is, "Oh, c'mon - can't you just trust that we're doing good work? Who has time to waste with evaluation?" But how much of our frustration with...
Of course, one of the most fun parts of starting a new business is dreaming up a name. Arts Progress is a callback to the Works Progress Administration in the U.S. from 1935 to 1943, created by Franklin Delano Roosevelt to address a nationwide crisis in...