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Fine tuning your arts organizations

Areas of Need

Problems in these basic areas?


The Board


The Employees


The Volunteers


  • Board organization
  • Self-assessment
  • Retreats
  • Communications
  • Composition
  • Recruitment
  • Effectiveness
  • Committee structure
  • Meetings
  • Fund-raising
  • Power
  • Focus
  • Size
  • Uninvolved members
  • Diversity

  • Time management
  • Job descriptions
  • Communication
  • Relations with Board
  • Growth flexibility
  • Role of Music Director
  • Role of Executive Director or Manager
  • Small orchestra needs
  • Large orchestra needs
  • Attracting & retaining quality staff
  • Working with volunteers

  • Involving members
  • Disenchantment
  • Fund-raising coordination with Board
  • Too powerful
  • Friction with parent organization
  • Penetrating the power structure
  • Coordinating data bases
  • Proper recognition
  • Ticket sales
  • Inclusion in strategic planning
  • Divergent visions

What to Expect for Your Investment


Service Packages


  • Sound advice and unbiased, honest opinion
  • Written report
  • How to organize the visions of many
  • How to successfully fund-raise
  • How to organize productive committees
  • How to recruit and keep dynamic volunteers
  • Effectively negotiate with artist's management
  • Successfully negotiate labor agreements
  • Understand the needs of musicians
  • Creative, focused board planning sessions
  • Impact education in your community
  • Learn the necessity of an endowment, its creation, and how to protect it

  • 1/2 day (8:00-12:00 AM or 1:00-5:00 PM)
  • Full day (8:00-5:00 or 9:00-6:00)
  • Day and a half (full day + 4 hours next morning)
  • Day and a half (full day + 4 hours previous evening)
  • 2 full days (6 PM Friday - 6 PM Sunday)
  • 2 full days (8 AM Saturday - 8 AM Monday)
  • One full day of interviews (8 AM - 8 PM)
  • One full day of interviews + full day of meetings

Call or email for rates and availability.  References supplied upon request.

darrell@symphonyconsultant.com or        

843-696-1658