InterActivity 2010: Invest Early, Inspire Growth
InterActivity 2010 will explore how investing early, whether in the delivery of play-based education, the ability to meet community needs or in the quest of institutional greatness, is children’s museums’ best formula for inspiring long-term growth.
Neuroscience confirms that play significantly effects the development of a young child’s brain. Social science studies indicate that play helps a child build interpersonal and self-regulation abilities. Futurists point to the global economy and the need for a workforce that can imagine, innovate and empathize. As leaders in early childhood education, children’s museums engage infants, toddlers and children through play to think critically and creatively. Exhibits and programs provide children with tangible interactions that challenge them to accomplish small and large feats. Museum outreach and community partnerships ensure that children of all backgrounds and abilities find ways to play and learn about the world in which we live. The results of these efforts yield dramatic rewards — children with critical cognitive, motor, social and emotional competencies that enable them to reach their full potential and to be ready to participate as 21st century learners and contributors.
To be essential community assets for children, children’s museums must be proactive. This means finding a seat at the table when leaders make plans regarding early childhood education, creating partnerships that expand community resources, embracing diversity in meaningful ways, supporting the professional development of museum staff, clarifying the museum’s brand, developing revenue streams and ensuring the business plan charts a course for sustainability and progress. Seeding children’s museums’ institutional capacity and influence will ensure the field’s growing impact on children, families and communities.
League of American Orchestras National Conference 2010
League of American Orchestras National Conference 2010-2011
Founded in 1942 , and chartered by Congress in 1962, the League of American Orchestras leads, encourages, and supports America’s orchestras while communicating to the public the value and importance of orchestras and the music they perform. The League’s vision is to be a transformative and unifying force for the orchestra field — a catalyst for understanding and innovation, a place for conversations that matter, and a champion for orchestras.
The Conference for Community Arts Education
The Conference for Community Arts Education provides essential professional development and networking opportunities for staff, teaching artists, and trustees. As a delegate, you'll develop new skills, share best practices with over 500 peers, and identify new opportunities for collaboration and growth.
This year's conference program will focus on how to sustain our programs and organizations during tough economic times and make the case for our work by demonstrating its impact. We’ll also create space for active networking and idea swapping through a series of “innovation roundtables” through which delegates will share information on what’s working in this economy.
Join us as we strategize for success and build a strong foundation for the future of arts education.
Independent Sector's Annual Conference: Challenging Times, New Opportunities
Independent Sector's Annual Conference has long served as a focal point for exploration of ideas on the present and future of the nonprofit sector. The 2009 Annual Conference is presented in partnership with the Council of Michigan Foundations and themed Challenging Times, New Opportunities. Designed with an emphasis on collaborative engagement, sessions will tap into the vast expertise of our participants as we tackle the extraordinary challenges affecting the nonprofit community.
Join 1,000 nonprofit colleagues from across the country as we use our collective energy and innovation to develop lasting solutions to current conditions, and create a brighter future for our organizations and those we serve. Add your voice to three days of transformative exchanges among leaders from across the nonprofit community.
2009 Recession Conference: Navigating the Art of Change
Two years ago, the Board of GIA decided it was time to convene in New York. It was chosen because New York City is the capital of culture with a growing arts base, with more than 3,000 nonprofit arts and cultural organizations and more than 150,000 individual artists. This backdrop provides a range of opportunities for our membership to explore and we are confident that with the help of our host committees you will make many discoveries in our diverse City.
In order to create a conference that is relevant during a recession, the conference planning committee decided to focus on the ways in which our community of grantmakers prepares for the future. As a community of arts grantmakers that has come of age, we need to ensure that our constituents can meet the challenges of our changing society. We will focus on dealing with issues of access, not just to the arts, but how our artists and arts organizations access audiences who have found new and competing outlets to engage in the arts to aligning grantmaking practices with relevant business models.
This year’s conference will take full advantage of the resources available in and throughout the five boroughs in a focused manner in order to avoid, to quote Betsy Richardson, a “frenetic conference.” This year GIA joins the many organizations which have had a leadership transition. We will hear from GIA’s new leadership about our new administration in Washington and how best to address the role for funders in advocating for the arts though public private partnerships. Leadership transition is yet another challenge our industry is facing and we even designed “dine around” with cultural leaders from this region to share their insights with our members.
Lastly, GIA’s membership interest groups continue to explore and define how to ensure that all school children have arts as part of their school day, how our changing demographics heighten the importance of arts and social justice, and what type of structures do we need to embrace and create to ensure that individual artists remain central to our work.
Our hopes are that we come together as a community of grantmakers and listen to each other, agree to disagree and leave the conference better prepared to navigate our constantly changing environment.
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