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Resource Topic: Operations

  • Performers from the Des Moines Music Coalition Summer Camp playing on the Emerging Artist Stage.

    Collaborative Approaches to Booking Artists

    Collaboration is important for people who book and present events, concerts, and theater productions. Working with neighboring venues provides quality arts experiences to your audiences and encourages a spirit of networking and community.

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    Assessing Your Operational Capacity

    Understanding your operational capacity helps you develop a more balanced, healthy organization and increase your ability to make an external impact. Use this template to identify trends and areas of organizational strength and opportunity.

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    Building a Healthy Arts Organization

    This framework for considering internal and external goals, bound by strategic focus, is a model for healthy nonprofits. Balance investments in mission, infrastructure, culture, and relationships to build a sustainably strong organization.

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    What Drives Your Revenue?

    Developing strategies to handle your organization's mix of revenue sources will enable you to hone your capacities in a way that strengthens your resource engine. This tool offers insight into the realities and challenges of revenue mix.

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