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New Pathways | Houston: Project Update
Last month our EmcArts team wrapped up the Workshop component of the ongoing New Pathways | Houston program. This program, generously funded by Houston Endowment, gave us the opportunity to work with...
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Building the Capacity to Innovate and Adapt: Philadelphia Workshop Series
In October of 2019, EmcArts was thrilled to undertake Building the Capacity to Innovate and Adapt with a robust cohort of sixteen diverse arts organizations. Thanks to Knight Foundation, we were able...
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New Online Offerings from EmcArts
EmcArts’ new online services offer personal reinforcement for your role as a leader, and support for your team or organization to move forward in complexity and confusion. Please use our process...
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Supporting You as an Adaptive Leader
Last week we introduced new online services from EmcArts, aimed at supporting you through this time and helping you to keep focused on the crucial and necessary work of adapting your organizations for...
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Gaining Momentum for Adaptive Work by Lowering Internal Barriers
Developing your organization’s adaptive capacities is essential for the journey of change that we’re all engaged in (see our article HERE). It’s equally crucial that you bring others with you on the...
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These sessions aim to help leaders and staff in any role make real progress out of disorder and into viable futures, offering frameworks for adaptive practice and examples from practitioners alongside...
View ArticleGuidance on Navigating Crisis as Adaptive Leaders
Lead Process Facilitator, Melissa Dibble, talks through two things to keep top of mind to help you navigate this crisis through the lens of adaptive leadership. Lead Process Facilitator, Melissa...
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Adaptive Change: Alive and well in Toronto’s performing arts sector
When EmcArts and the Metcalf Foundation put out the call for people interested in learning how to facilitate adaptive change work in Toronto’s arts sector, Sue Balint and Alicia Payne answered it....
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Impossibly Both: Embracing Wickedness and Paradox to Succeed in Complexity
“How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.” (Niels Bohr) When times are really tough, our individual minds and souls may be freer to hear and feel new...
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Discovering New Futures: Radical Experiments, not more Planning!
“For the first time in a long time, the future feels inventable, not inevitable.” – Aislinn Rose, The Theatre Centre, Toronto When times are complex, the future is uncertain and unpredictable. We...
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New Pathways: Steeped in tradition, Houston Boychoir embraces its future
For nearly 60 years Houston Boychoir has helped young men master the skills they need to shine both on and off the stage. One of the premiere choirs of its kind in the country, it has nurtured three...
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Historic PAFA adapts to the present, reimagines its future
When leaders of Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia embarked on a journey with EmcArts last fall, they needed a safe space to step out of their comfort zone and take a risk. That’s...
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Now accepting applications: DIRECTOR OF BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT, DIGITAL...
EmcArts is offering a remarkable opportunity for a creative, motivated self-starter to join a team committed to advancing nonprofit leadership at this pivotal time. The pandemic has made our focus on...
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Introducing EmcArts 2021
Now available: New digital programs for adaptive re-imagining across the arts Open access and greater inclusion for our sector at a time of historic change “For the first time in a long while, the...
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Adapting in Crisis: Case Studies of Resilience in the Arts
Knight Foundation report captures the value of EmcArts program on adaptive capacity The Knight Foundation has just published a new set of case studies, focusing on four disparate arts groups that took...
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Responding to “this moment of challenge and change”
In a new report (March 2021), Buffering Against Uncertainty, SMU DataArts analyzes the condition of capital in nonprofit cultural organizations as we move forward from the COVID-19 crisis. While the...
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The Discipline of Adaptive Changemaking
What is it and who can benefit? “The entrepreneurial spirit is strong right now – we want to plunge into doing things differently!” “People are tired, exhausted right now – we want to get back to...
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Reimagine your future in the midst of historic change
EmcArts pilots new digital programs in Toronto and Detroit focused on recovering and rebuilding EmcArts spent months during the COVID-19 pandemic reinventing itself as a digital-services company. After...
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What does your post-pandemic future look like?
New digital offering designed for single organizations ready to dig deep into new pathways forward Many organizations in the arts and culture sector, hard hit by the COVID-19 pandemic because of their...
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