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Springboard is a capacity building program for small and mid-sized arts and cultural groups, designed to help identify and address issues that are blocking organizations' ability to achieve sustainability and success.
Springboard is delivered by ESC in cooperation with Claudia Bach of AdvisArts. Working with ESC consultants, participating organizations work on issues like improving business operations, increasing revenues, building audiences, and strengthening governance. Springboard is a cohort-based program, and provides opportunities to learn from local arts experts as well as your peers.
What happens in Springboard?
Springboard helps organizations develop the ability to quickly identify and address organizational problems, spot opportunities, develop actionable plans, and measure success on those plans. Organizations that make this kind of operationally-focused planning a habit are more likely to succeed over time. Planning takes time, but it makes an organization more nimble and more resilient in the long term.
Most activities in the Springboard program happen over a five month period beginning in late January 2010 and ending in June 2010. Program components include:
- An organizational assessment that addresses 8 core competency areas
- Assistance from ESC consultants in developing an action plan to address key issues
- Assistance and resources from ESC consultants in implementing your action plan
- Four cohort meetings with peers and local arts management experts
Application Process
The application period for the 2010 cohort is closed. Applications were due on November 15th. Information on the 2011 cohort will be available in August 2010.
Questions?
Contact Denee McCloud at springboard@escwa.org
