When: Friday, November 20, 2020, 11 AM - 3 PM EST
Where: Online event, register here
Registration fee: $179 per organization, for up to three participants.
** Registration limited to 100 organizations/projects.
** Register online by November 13.
For nearly twenty years, the DeVos Institute of Arts Management has provided counsel for arts, culture, and humanities organizations at a variety of inflection points, including those considering capital developments, renovations, or expansions.
Leveraging this experience, the Institute is pleased to offer this online intensive for managers, developers, and trustees in the process of planning, or overseeing, a capital development, renovation, or expansion.
For organizations with a physical project underway – whether that be the development of new infrastructure, or the renovation or expansion of a current facility – the ground is shifting.
The DeVos Institute of Arts Management – a global leader in the planning, funding, and operating of new or expanded cultural institutions – offers this one-day intensive to address the most pressing considerations facing organizers of capital projects in today’s unprecedented environment:
What are the likely characteristics of a post-pandemic environment? What of this is relevant to the planning of physical site?
Should we proceed using pre-pandemic assumptions for attendance, programming, and operating revenues?
Does our pre-pandemic design work in a post-pandemic environment?
Does our timeline make sense? Does it remain feasible?
How will the pandemic affect our ability to raise the money needed for the investment?
How will a post-pandemic environment affect our ability to build the earned and contributed revenues required to support the investment on an annual basis?
Should we proceed, at all? Is the risk too great?
What, in any case, are best practices of which our project must be aware, pandemic or no?
This intensive will deliver practical strategy in the following key areas:
Estimating need, and demand, for new or expanded infrastructure, and the pandemic's impacts in that calculus
Building, or revising, a rational business plan to support the new or expanded operation
Maximizing Board leadership during the planning, fundraising, and development processes
Understanding, and managing, risk tied to a move, renovation, or expansion
Maximizing the relationship between design and business planning
Anticipating and avoiding common pitfalls and areas of underestimation
Guest Speakers:
Andy Hayles, Managing Partner, Charcoalblue
Joshua Dachs, Principal, Fisher Dachs Associates