Marketing and Development – Friends in the Sandbox
This post comes to you from Target Resource Group, found on the NAMP website. Amelia Northrup-Simpson of TRG in her article “Marketing is from Mars; Development is from Venus” discusses how marketing and development teams need to work together to bring about the ultimate goal of patron loyalty. Her thoughts hit home for me, as someone who has worked for small, medium, and larger orchestras. At the medium-sized orchestra, marketing and development systems were different, ...
6 Grant Questions and How to Answer Them
The trees are blooming, the flowers blossoming, computer mouses clicking away, and frenzied administrators wandering around quoting narratives and outcome data: Grant writing season is upon us! In truth, it’s probably always grant writing season, but with several large grant opportunities coming due soon, it seems to be at the height. No matter how hard you stare at the blank application repeating “How will we define success?”, that question won’t magically answer itself. Fortunately, Amanda Keating, a ...
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