cac's bright spots workshop presentation
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This is the PowerPoint presentation used during the April 18, 2013 Bright Spots Workshop by Helicon Collaborative and Cuyahoga Arts & Culture.TRANSCRIPT
Cuyahoga Arts & Culture
Paul G. Allen FoundationBright Spots
Bright Spots WorkshopCuyahoga Arts & Culture
April 18, 2013
CAC’s Funding Criteria
Public Benefit – how do you engage the community in the work that you’re doing?
Artistic & Cultural Vibrancy – what is that work that you’re doing, and how do you keep it fresh?
Organizational Capacity – do you have the ability to carry out your plans, looking at both human and financial resources?
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Five Bright Spot Principles
ADEPT: Bright Spot Principles CAC’s Funding Criteria
Animating Purpose Artistic & Cultural Vibrancy
Deeply Engaged with Community
Public Benefit
Evaluation & Analysis Organizational Capacity
Plasticity All three criteria
Transparent Leaders Organizational Capacity
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Cuyahoga Arts & Culture
Paul G. Allen FoundationBright Spots
Bright Spots WorkshopCuyahoga Arts & Culture
April 18, 2013
Today’s Agenda
Welcome and Introductions
Bright Spots Framework
Small Group work – Strengths/Weaknesses
Lunch
Full Group – Three “cases”
Working an Issue at your organization
Brainstorming the Critical Next Moves
Adjourn
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Inspiration for Bright Spots
• Which cultural organizations are achieving exceptional results without exceptional resources?
• Do these organizations share characteristics or strategies that can be replicated by others?
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Research
• Interviews with more than 100 cultural leaders across the country
• Review of resources on leadership and change
• Focus groups and workshops with cultural leaders
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“Bright Spots” definition
• Observable exceptions to the norm
• Same resources as others
• Locally relevant practices
• Peer-selected
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Five Bright Spot Principles
Animating purpose
Deeply engaged with community
Evaluation and analysis
Plasticity
Transparent leadership
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Animating Purpose• “Why should we exist now?”
• Clear, distinctive purpose and vision
• Clear about desired impact and on whom
• High quality work that connect artists and audiences
• “Stop doing” list
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Deeply Engaged with Community
• Exercise civic leadership
• See themselves as part of larger systems
• Invested in community goals
• Partner within and outside the arts
• Other arts organizations are partners, not competitors
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Evaluation and Analysis
• Tell the truth to themselves
• Seek and use multiple perspectives
• Realistic, especially about finances
• Willing to make hard choices
• See opportunities, not obstacles
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Plasticity• Nothing too sacred to change
• Continually adjusting to changing circumstances
• Growth doesn’t equal success
• Comfortable with uncertainty
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Transparent Leadership• Not ego-driven
• Build trust internally and externally
• Define clear roles
• Transparent decision-making
• Willing to make unpopular decisions
• Share leadership among staff and board
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Feedback from the Field
• Cross-sector applicability
• Explains positive results
• Sparks conversation among staff and board
• Blueprint for “ethical organization”
• Non-judgmental self-analysis
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Am I a Bright Spot?
• Brightness is a practice, not a destination.
• Brightness is a spectrum.
• The number of potentially bright organizations is unlimited.
• Brightness is uneven within an organization.
• The specifics of bright behavior has local variations.
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Questions for Discussion
• Questions about the research or about elements of the framework?
• Does this framework resonate for your organization?
• Does this framework explain the success of organizations you admire most?
We’d love to hear from youHelicon Collaborative
Marcy Hinand [email protected]
Holly Sidford [email protected]
Blog: www.brightspotsculture.wordpress.com
Cuyahoga Arts & Culturewww.cacgrants.org or 216.515.8303