National Youth Orchestra of Iraq: Building Bridges at Home and Abroad
How can a youth orchestra break down ethnic, religious, and language barriers to create opportunities for meaningful cultural exchange?
July Topic: Making Art With (Not For) Audiences
How are organizations creating participatory artistic programming through collaborative processes with their audiences?
June Topic: How Can Art-Making Foster Collaboration Across Cultures?
How are organizations creating opportunities for individuals with different cultural identities and experiences to collaborate with each other?
What Happens When Preservation and Innovation Collide?
The National Trust for Historic Preservation reflects on their journey through the Innovation Lab for Museums.
4 Explorations of Organizational Culture
We dug into the ArtsFwd archives to revisit four posts from the past two years that focus on organizational culture.
Lessons in Innovation: Shifting Organizational Culture
At Woolly Mammoth and Denver Center Theatre Company, leaders shifted the existing organizational culture to embrace change.
May Topic: Building a Culture That Embraces Change
In May, we’re exploring what kinds of organizational cultures support an openness to adaptive change.
Springboard for the Arts Asks: How Do Our Artist Selves Change the Organization?
What does it mean to be an organization run by artists? How do our creative skills show up in our work?
4 Perspectives on What Organizations Can Learn From Artists
We took a moment to dig into the ArtsFwd archives and revisit four posts from the past two years that focus on the artistic process.
April Topic: What Can Organizations Learn From Artists?
In April, we’ll be focusing on artists to explore what kinds of practices adaptive organizations might learn from the artistic process.
5 Perspectives on Leadership
We’re revisiting five past posts from the blog that focus on leadership practices and processes.
Build, Measure, Learn: “Lean” Principles and Innovation Process
By “going lean,” nonprofits use an cyclical, feedback-focused development process to use limited resources more effectively.
March Topic: What Is Adaptive Leadership?
In March, we’ll be focusing on the topic of leadership to explore what “adaptive leadership” looks like in practice.
Business-As-Usual Is “No Longer an Option” for Heron Foundation
Clara Miller of the Heron Foundation reminds us in her “President’s Letter” that in order to stay relevant, we must all be continually adaptive.
Debunking 10 Myths of Innovation
In my recent article in the GIA Reader, I challenge some false ideas about innovation, and dispel rumors about its demise.