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The Foundation Center – San Francisco presents….

A Day for Arts Organizations:
Thursday, October 14, 10 am-3:30 pm

Investing in Our People: How We Support our Arts and Culture Workers and Strengthen the Field 10 am-11:30 am
This is a Creative Conversation hosted by the Foundation Center-San Francisco and presented in partnership with the Emerging Arts Professionals/SFBA.

With the world rapidly changing around us, much conversation to date has centered on how arts organizations and artists are faring during these challenging times. Often, less attention is paid to how we are taking care of the many dedicated arts administrators laboring through budget cuts and increased workloads. This panel will bring together a dynamic group of arts and culture leaders from the Bay Area to discuss ways in which organizations and individuals are dealing with these challenges, taking advantage of opportunities, and developing new approaches to support individuals who are working in the arts and culture field.

Presenters:
·         Ken Foster, executive director, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
·         Alex Michel, managing director, Hub Bay Area
·         Judith Smith, artistic director, AXIS Dance
·         Marc Vogl, program officer, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
·         Ron Ragin, associate program officer, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, moderator

REGISTER BEFORE IT’S SOLD OUT: http://foundationcenter.org/sanfrancisco/training/wksf10_14_invest.html

Also, don’t miss…..

Networking Luncheon and Speed Consulting with Coaches and Consultants for the Arts (C2Arts), 12-1:30 pm
The Foundation Center and C2Arts invite you to a networking lunch during which C2Arts will offer 15-minute consulting sessions to leaders of nonprofit arts organizations. Since foundation grants and earned income are increasingly challenging to obtain; C2Arts is framing these speed consulting sessions around organizational capacity building to support development efforts.

Not Business As Usual: Arts Organizations Adapt to the New Normal, 1:30-3:30 pm
Lester Olmstead-Rose, director of strategy practice at La Piana Consulting, will share lessons learned from two initiatives by the James Irvine Foundation and Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust that provided significant grants to assist with business model change for California arts organizations to attain sustainability in the current economic landscape. Grantee representatives will also share their experiences and lessons learned during this shift toward developing more stable earned income streams, challenges and opportunities posed by restructuring and mergers, new media/technology solutions, and expanded services to partners – all efforts in pursuit of mission impact and financial sustainability.

More information here : http://foundationcenter.org/sanfrancisco/sf_calendar.html

October is National Arts and Humanities month and EAP/SFBA would like
to share two exciting, upcoming events with you.

Friday, October 1^st 5:00p-9:00p
Emerging Arts Professionals/SFBA present a
First Friday Mixer at Litquake’s 11^th annual festival

Autumn has arrived and what better way to kick off the season than with an
evening of old and new friends, swanky cocktails, danceable tunes and cutting
edge literary artists?

Emerging Arts Professionals/SFBA personally invites you to join us for
1st Friday Mixers, a monthly event where members of EAP/SFBA can get
together and enjoy the best of what the Bay Area art community has to offer!
Each month we will highlight a new event in a new exciting location and offer a
chance for members to connect.

For our very first Mixer of the fall, we celebrate Opening Night of Litquake’s
11th annual festival.

Find more information or register here: http://eapmixers.eventbrite.com/

Thursday, October 14^th 10:00a-11:30a

Emerging Arts Professionals/SFBA in partnership with the Foundation Center –
San Francisco and Americans for the Arts Creative Conversations present….

Investing in Our People: How We Support our Arts and Culture Workers
and Strengthen the Field (Part of the Foundation Center – San Francisco’s
A Day for Arts Organizations)

With the world rapidly changing around us, much conversation to date has centered
on how arts organizations and artists are faring during these challenging times.
Often, less attention is paid to how we are taking care of the many dedicated arts
administrators laboring through budget cuts and increased workloads.

This panel will bring together a dynamic group of arts and culture leaders from the
Bay Area to discuss ways in which organizations and individuals are dealing with
these challenges, taking advantage of opportunities, and developing new approaches
to support individuals who are working in the arts and culture field.

Panelists include Ken Foster, executive director, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts,
Judith Smith, artistic director, AXIS Dance, Marc Vogl, program officer,
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.

JUST ADDED Alex Michel, managing director of Hub Bay Area.

Find more information or register here : http://foundationcenter.org/sanfrancisco/training/wksf10_14_invest.html

Every October, in honor of National Arts & Humanities Month, Americans for
the Arts partners with emerging leaders from across the country to host Creative
Conversations. Last year, more than 1,500 emerging arts leaders participated in
43 locally hosted Creative Conversations throughout the country.

The new frontier of creative leadership requires new competencies, skills and sensitivities that are adaptive, engaging and relevant. It is in this spirit that the Emerging Arts Professionals/San Francisco Bay Area (EAP/SFBA) are pleased to announce our 2010-2011 Fellowship Program.

You are invited to information session at Intersection 5M, 925 Mission Street @ 5th Street, 94103 on

● Tuesday, September 7th from 6:30pm to 8:00pm

6:30pm-7:30pm Presentation about Fellowship goals and criteria
7:30pm-8:00pm Question & Answer

When you arrive please register with Intersection 5M/The Hub at 901 Mission Street.

ALSO, please share this with your friends and colleagues.

(The final information session will be held at the same location on
Monday, September 13th from 12:30pm to 1:30pm)

Details of the program can be found here:
http://sfbaeap.com/eapsfba-2010-2011-fellowship-program/

Join the Emerging Arts Professionals/SFBA on Tuesday, August 17th, from 12p-1p for “Is Advocacy Important?” a brown bag with your peers and Randy Cohen*, VP of Local Arts Advancement at Americans for the Arts (AFTA).

Tuesday, August 17th, 12:00p-1:00p
YAW Lounge, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
701 Mission Street at 3rd Street

Randy is in town from Washington, DC giving the keynote at Arts Forum  2010 at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in the evening, but wanted to touch base with us while he is here on the West Coast.

He has been traveling around the country for the last few months, discussing AFTA’s National Arts Index and this is an intimate opportunity to pick his brain conveniently scheduled during your lunch break.

What is the state of the national arts community? What economic trends are developing? Where does the Bay Area fit in? What is AFTA advocating for on a national level? In your opinion, where should local resources to support the arts go? Is advocacy even important? How could it be more effective?

Randy will talk about his current work and travels for the first 20 minutes and then we’ll open it up to discussion….your questions, statements and thoughts. And please bring your lunch.

Space is limited and we must submit a firm guest list to YBCA, so send your RSVP to nextgenerationsf@gmail.com by 11am on Monday, August 16th.

*Randy Cohen is among the most noted experts in the field of arts funding, research, policy, and using the arts to address community development issues. In January 2010, Randy released The National Arts Index, the first ever annual measure of the health and vitality of arts in the United States. He published the two premier economic studies of the arts industry—Arts & Economic Prosperity, the national impact study of nonprofit arts organizations and their audiences and Creative Industries, an annual mapping study of the nation’s 680,000 arts establishments and their employees. Randy led the development of the National Arts Policy Roundtable, an annual convening of leaders who focus on the advancement of American culture, launched in 2006 in partnership with Robert Redford and the Sundance Preserve. More here http://sites.google.com/site/artsforum2010/keynote-speaker

More on Arts Forum 2010 http://sites.google.com/site/artsforum2010/
“A forum to educate political candidates and the community about what the arts community does for us, and what you can do to help!”