Resources tagged with organisational development



Crowdfunding – A unique blend of marketing and fundraising

AMA member Merrin Kalinowski considers how the success of Art Happens campaigns is dependent upon close collaboration between marketing and development teams. This article is featured in the Spring 2018 issue of  JAM – the AMA’s quarterly publication.

Quick guide: vision & mission

A quick and simple toolkit to help you develop powerful vision and mission statements for your organisation. Based on training designed by Mel Larsen for the AMA’s Small Scale Development Programme.

Visions for the future – a key part of society

The region in which Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (Mima) is situated has very little arts infrastructure. It is a region with high poverty, high unemployment and very low life expectancy – where the art gallery is based, the average life expectancy is 54 year’s old. It was a risk to put an international contemporary art gallery in … Read more

Visions for the future: Rebuilding the Everyman

Discover how the Everyman Theatre razed and rebuilt their much-loved venue into a RIBA-prize winning building, while maintaining and growing their audiences. This is a transcript of the closing keynote from the AMA conference 2013.

Setting organisational vision and values that impact marketing strategy

NEMO is a Science Centre in Amsterdam, and one of the Netherlands leading attractions. NEMO wanted to reassess its organisational priorities and worked with arts consultancy Wonderbird to establish NEMO 3.0, the vision of NEMO in the future, and to set a marketing strategy that can support that vision.

Governance in the not-for-profit cultural sector

This report looks at issues around governance in the arts. Why think about governance in the not-for-profit cultural sector? The governors of an organisation, whether they go by the name of trustees, directors or non-executive directors, are in a position of trust. They have a duty towards the organisation’s objectives and its provision of public … Read more