Events
On BOARD® is the Arts & Business Council of Chicago’s unique board governance and leadership training program that prepares individuals who are ready to engage as active board members of arts, cultural, and creative nonprofit organizations. Individuals who participate in the On BOARD® Labs demonstrate an understanding and commitment to upholding high standards of nonprofit board governance.
Topics in Arts Organization Structures & Board Responsibilities include:
- Structures of arts and cultural organizations and their boards
- Phases of development of nonprofit organizations, from the founding board to the working board and the governing board
- Analysis of the board’s role in planning, governance, staffing & structure, income generation, audience development & marketing, financial management, and facilities management
- Expectations of board contributions of time, talent, and treasure
- Using committees and non-governing boards to amplify the work of your organization
Presenter: Braden Cleary / Director of Arts Services / Arts & Business Council of Chicago
Price: $35
Round Tables for Senior Leaders are designed to benefit senior leaders from creative businesses and nonprofit organizations to convene with peers to discuss ideas, context, and emotions; to make sense; and re-orient their visions and actions.
Facilitated by our Business Volunteers for the Arts® and other skilled individuals, Round Tables will offer conversations on a variety of management and leadership topics. If you are looking for a space for connection, empowerment, and processing the difficulties of the moment, Round Tables are for you.
February’s Round Table for Senior Leaders will focus on Board Composition & Recruitment.
What is the real impact of the pandemic on arts marketers? Erik Gensler, president and founder of Capacity Interactive, and CI team members will lead an interactive group discussion with Arts & Business Council of Chicago, See Chicago Dance, and The Chicago Cultural Alliance.
Date: March 8, 2021
Time: 3:00 P.M. – 4:00 P.M. CST
About: You’ll dive into key takeaways from the Arts Industry Data Analysis: Pandemic Response and have an opportunity to ask the Capacity Interactive experts all of your digital marketing and research-related questions.
What is the Arts Industry Data Analysis: Pandemic Response?
This livestream, aired on 2/25, explores evolutions within the broader digital and media landscape and the impact on the arts. You’ll also learn about research and frameworks help you build stronger and healthier teams. Watch the full recording here.
Round Tables for Senior Leaders are designed to benefit senior leaders from creative businesses and nonprofit organizations to convene with peers to discuss ideas, context, and emotions; to make sense; and re-orient their visions and actions.
With a vaccinated population now in sight, we are all thinking about and planning for what exactly that might mean. What have you learned over the last year? How are you thinking about using this chance to do things differently? Join other senior leaders from Chicagoland creative businesses and non-profit organizations to share ideas (and stresses) about how the creative community can Build Back Better.
More than a year after the pandemic was declared, arts and cultural programming has been drastically changed. And as the worst of the crisis is now (hopefully) in the rear-view mirror, arts organizations have the opportunity to re-emerge into the world and even help define the “new normal.” To do this, organizations will need to move from project-based marketing to holistic, brand-driven institutional marketing, focused on concrete values and meeting audiences where they are right now. As various sectors of the economy come back online into 2021 and beyond, what are the marketing, branding, and other strategic tools organizations need to thrive as leaders—and healers—in a challenging competitive landscape?
In this session we will discuss:
- Definitions of project-based marketing and institutional marketing, including challenges and benefits
- The mechanics of a clear and compelling mission
- Articulating the values that define your vision and speak to your audiences
- Strategies for creative relevance in the post-pandemic world
Presenter: Ben van Loon / Communications Director / AFIRE
Registration: $35
On BOARD® is the Arts & Business Council of Chicago’s unique board governance and leadership training program that prepares individuals who are ready to engage as active board members of arts, cultural, and creative nonprofit organizations. Individuals who successfully complete the full program demonstrate an understanding and commitment to upholding high standards of nonprofit board governance.
Legal & Fiduciary Responsibilities of Board Members is part 2 of 6 in the full On BOARD® curriculum. To learn more about the full program curriculum, click here.
Topics include:
- General roles and responsibilities of nonprofit board members
- Key fiduciary duties of nonprofit board members
- Duty of Care, Duty of Loyalty, Duty of Obedience
- Liability and protections for board members, the importance of Directors & Officers insurance
- Additional considerations for public charities and private foundations with 501(c)(3) status
- Important reporting obligations at the state and federal level
Presenter: Patricia S. Marx / Associate / Quarles & Brady, LLP
Price: $35
Round Tables for Senior Leaders are designed to benefit senior leaders from creative businesses and nonprofit organizations to convene with peers to discuss ideas, context, and emotions; to make sense; and re-orient their visions and actions.
This 90-minute Round Table presentation is designed to address the current mental health climate to open up conversation and collaboration about how to approach the topic of mental health within your organization from a position of leadership. The discussion will include:
- How we talk about mental health (vocabulary, generational divide, stigma and bias)
- How we can make mental health a regular/ongoing topic of discussion
- How we can put support plans in place ahead of a crisis
- How we care for ourselves while caring for our teams
Heather R. Bodie, Executive Artistic Director of Erasing the Distance will lead this open conversation about mental health in an effort to increase the ways we can support ourselves and our colleagues, not only in light of the events of this past year, but as an ongoing practice. Read Heather’s bio.
This Round Table is generously underwritten by the Arts Work Fund.
Heather R. Bodie has spent the last 15 years in Chicago working as an actor, director, and producer. She joined Erasing the Distance in 2013 and has since traveled across the country facilitating conversations about mental health with over 75,000 people. Founded in 2005, Erasing the Distance in a non-profit organization on a mission to disarm the stigma that surrounds the topic of mental health, through personal storytelling.
Round Tables for Senior Leaders are designed to benefit senior leaders from creative businesses and nonprofit organizations to convene with peers to discuss ideas, context, and emotions; to make sense; and re-orient their visions and actions.
Facilitated by our Business Volunteers for the Arts® and other skilled individuals, Round Tables will offer conversations on a variety of management and leadership topics. If you are looking for a space for connection, empowerment, and processing the difficulties of the moment, Round Tables are for you.
April’s Round Table for Senior Leaders topic: Pay Equity
Round Tables for Senior Leaders are designed to benefit senior leaders from creative businesses and nonprofit organizations to convene with peers to discuss ideas, context, and emotions; to make sense; and re-orient their visions and actions.
Facilitated by our Business Volunteers for the Arts® and other skilled individuals, Round Tables will offer conversations on a variety of management and leadership topics. If you are looking for a space for connection, empowerment, and processing the difficulties of the moment, Round Tables are for you.
February’s Round Table for Senior Leaders topic: TBD
Round Tables for Senior Leaders are designed to benefit senior leaders from creative businesses and nonprofit organizations to convene with peers to discuss ideas, context, and emotions; to make sense; and re-orient their visions and actions.
Facilitated by our Business Volunteers for the Arts® and other skilled individuals, Round Tables will offer conversations on a variety of management and leadership topics. If you are looking for a space for connection, empowerment, and processing the difficulties of the moment, Round Tables are for you.
February’s Round Table for Senior Leaders topic: TBD