Cohort / TA Resources
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Quarterly Workshops
The ArtsHERE program supports organizations that demonstrate a commitment to equity within their practices and programming. In addition to monthly cohort sessions and one-on-one consultations, grantees participate in quarterly workshop opportunities to deep dive into specific topics alongside peers from across the country. Through grants and peer learning opportunities, grantees enhance their capacity to sustain meaningful artistic engagement over time.
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Quarterly Workshop with Bryan Joseph Lee: Bryan led grantees through a workshop designed to foster facilitated networking and real-time knowledge-sharing across cohorts. They drew on history, community, and expertise to explore creative capacity-building strategies through cooperative economics, sustainability, and outreach. | Workshop notes | N/A |
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Ask Us Anything Session: Facilitated by Ruki Neuhold-Ravikumar and Paul Ternes, the group discussed strategies for engaging board members, managing time effectively, and fundraising efforts. They also explored the challenges of hiring a development director and the importance of donor stewardship. |
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12/18/2024 |
Organizations encountered distinct challenges when investing in capacity building, especially when scaling efforts toward broader systemic community or cultural change. This session provided an opportunity to explore diverse strategies for capacity building, identify organizational and individual strengths, and learn how to leverage these strengths to create actionable plans for change. In this workshop, participants:
ArtsHERE Coach, Ruki Neuhold-Ravikumar and Consultant, Doug Powell. |
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Community Engagement
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Tips and Tricks for Running Large, Multi-Partner Projects | The Ideas Hub is a collection of free, curated articles and tools that help creative leaders foster growth within their organizations. We aim to make the work easier by simplifying complex concepts in relatable ways, sharing real-life examples, and providing the framework for how to turn concepts into reality. | |
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5 Ways to Strengthen Your Marketing | The effectiveness of your marketing depends on understanding what motivates people to take action. This article suggests five actionable ways, with data-driven examples, to enhance your marketing and communications to support your mission. | |
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Partnering for Stronger Community Engagement | This toolkit is a free resource to help libraries establish and maintain impactful partnerships. Designed for library workers, the toolkit’s actionable steps, editable online forms and tutorial videos offer valuable insights for forming sustainable partnerships. | |
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Best Practices for Nonprofit Civic Engagement | Nonprofits encourage civic engagement by promoting community involvement, maintaining a sense of common good, ensuring the welfare of people in need, and giving the community a way to contribute to the improvement of society. | |
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How to do Community Engagement Right | Far too often, those directly affected by decisions are not consulted at all. Using community engagement tools and resources in a well-planned and meaningful way can have a real and lasting impact on communities, decision-making processes, and individual and family wellbeing. | |
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Developing a Nonprofit Engagement Strategy | Developing a nonprofit community engagement strategy involves creating a structured approach to foster meaningful relationships and active participation among community members, volunteers, and stakeholders. | |
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How Intergroup Relationships Build Community: 4 Success Stories | Fund to Foster Belonging grantee brought together immigrants and non-immigrants to build community-wide belonging through shared initiatives. Their efforts demonstrated how local bridge-building work between different groups — also known as intergroup bridging — can successfully create connections, reduce loneliness and isolation, and combat social division. | |
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Language Access Fundamentals | If you are just starting to establish a language access program within your community, organization, or government and want a refresher on basic-level topics, this is designed for you. |
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Capactiy Building
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CompassPoint | CompassPoint is a 50-year-old nonprofit leadership development practice based in Oakland, CA. They believe that nonprofits are powerful vehicles for positive social change and that creating a world free of oppression means practicing liberation inside and out. Drawing on popular education principles, they create participatory, democratic learning spaces for leaders to learn new skills, build community, connect with resources, and examine how their leadership can better embody values of social justice. | |
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Strengthening your nonprofit through more equitable and inclusive hiring practices | Equitable and inclusive hiring is not just a moral imperative; it's a strategic effort that strengthens your organization by bringing varied perspectives, experiences, and skills to your nonprofit. Simple changes to your hiring processes can help make your team more diverse—and help fill job vacancies in this era of significant workforce shortages in our sector. | |
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Board Orientation | Identifying a new board member is only the first step in what you hope will be a mutually rewarding relationship. Whether orientation of your new board member is approached informally or formally, be sure to include the basics needed for new board members to become engaged in the work of the board right away, and to serve as a committed ambassador and advocate for your nonprofit’s mission for a long time to come. | |
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Evaluation Policy Guide | Results for America is equipping state and local leaders with a first-of-its-kind Evaluation Policy Guide. In this new resource, you’ll find the best elements and key lessons learned from federal, state and local government policies that encourage and shape the use of evidence to improve the impact of government spending. | |
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An Introduction to Program Evaluation | Evaluation can be more than a compliance exercise for funding, it can be an embedded approach, allowing organizations to be intentional about what they want to know and how it can strengthen their programming. | |
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Beyond the Jargon | Gain a clearer understanding of capacity building and learn how to create a "wish list" to guide your organization when new funding or training opportunities arise. | |
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Strategic Nonprofit Growth: Navigating the 7 Stages | Established nonprofit organizations play a vital role in addressing social issues, driving positive change, and enriching communities. In this article, we explore the seven stages of development that established nonprofits often navigate as they strive for excellence in advancing their mission and serving their constituents. | |
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Craft and Impactful Annual Report | To help you develop or improve your own impact reporting skills, this guide will explore the annual report creation process step by step. We’ll also provide tips for ways you can communicate impact more effectively, whether you’re creating your first annual report or your fifteenth. | |
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Mindfulness and Self-Compassion through Creativity | Mindfulness and Self-Compassion Through Creativity workshop will help fulfill a need in the art community to blend mindfulness techniques and creativity from a connected and self-aware environment. | |
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Volunteer Recruitment and Retention | This peer-to-peer learning workshop recorded in December 2024 equips nonprofit arts leaders with essential tools and strategies to enhance their volunteer programs. Participants gain new approaches and insights to help their arts and cultural organizations attract, engage, and retain volunteers more effectively, while also fostering their leadership potential. |
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Finance/Fundraising
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Jitasa Group: Nonprofit Financing Consulting Agency resources | Jitasa seeks to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of nonprofits. Through bookeeping, accounting services, their online resource center, classes or assessments Jitasa's services are affordable services that can be catered to every organization. | |
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Regulatory Updates: How Nonprofits Can Prepare for a Federal Funding Freeze | Overwhelmed by the constant stream of regulatory updates that may affect your business? With everything always in flux, you’re under pressure to stay compliant. Access the latest key updates in one place, so you can navigate change effectively and keep up with regulations that impact your industry. | |
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How to Manage Your Grant Award | A comprehensive overview of how to manage your ArtsHERE Grant Award | |
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Finding Your Nonprofit Funding Strategy | Developing a strategy for financial sustainability is key to any nonprofit’s growth. Yet, it may not be clear how to pinpoint a funding model that makes sense for the long term and to develop the capabilities to pursue it. This guide helps organizations identify and develop a funding strategy that can put them in the best position to achieve their goals. | |
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Telling a Compelling Story: Communicating Program Impact in a Grant Proposal | Many nonprofits struggle to secure funding even with strong programs. This blog post dives into the key ingredient: communicating your impact in a compelling way. Learn how to craft a narrative that resonates, use data effectively, and tell a story that funders can't ignore. | |
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Nonprofit Finance 101 | Lisa Gertsch reviews everything small orgs need to keep on top of their financial situation and stay in compliance: accounting software; grant tracking;, employees versus contractors; state and federal filings; how to forecast your cash balance and much more. | |
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9 Best Practices for Strong Nonprofit Financial Management | Here is what you need to know to strengthen your financial savvy and keep your nonprofit on a strong financial foundation. | |
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Budgeting for Nonprofits | A key component of financial sustainability is the commitment of board and staff to financial management that includes timely review of financial reports and advance planning. One way that board and staff plan for income and expenses in the future is by creating a budget. | |
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Fundraising Tool Kit | In this tool kit, information on building a fundraising plan; an overview of the different types of funding and their unique constraints; rules of thumb on boards and fundraising; guidelines on how to organize and develop your fundraising materials; a research checklist; sample fundraising plan and template; sample donor profiling and pledge forms; a sample breakdown of benefits for underwriters; sample cover letter, proposal, budget, and follow-up letter; a special events timeline; and more. |