How to Stay Motivated (when you’d rather be at the beach)
Friends, summer is a hard time to stay motivated. If your arts season is Fall through Spring, you normally want to take a 3-month nap during the summer months, preferably on a beach with a cool drink in your hand. But the summer is KEY time to plan for your upcoming season. So much work can get done when you don’t have shows/performances/exhibits/artists taking up all of your time. So here’s how I stay motivated during …
MOU vs Contracts
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Non-profit organizations frequently enter into memorandum of understanding (MOU) relationships so it is important to understand the difference between them and contracts. In simple terms, an MOU is generally not legally binding while a contract is. The distinction actually comes down to the language used in the terms of a document. So a document can say Memorandum of Agreement on the top, but the terms set out by the language in the document may be …
Need Videos Created On A Budget?
We all need to have video spots created at one point or another; whether it is for TV ads, social media, or just for our website. However, creating video spots when you have very little (or even no) video footage can be tricky and it quite quickly can turn into an expensive project. Last year, here at Palm Beach Opera, we had our video spots created by an AMAZING company that did an absolutely excellent …
Presenting Sensory Friendly Events
In Tennessee, our state arts council has spent the past year working with arts organizations in the state to be more inclusive with regards to audience members with disabilities or developmental differences. I would venture a guess that most arts groups are like us; a little unsure of how to enter this area. Over the past season, we’ve worked with members and families of the Autistic and Down Syndrome communities to present several sensory friendly …
Thank you for the authoritative read on this issue. To me, being able to actually see the icon in the…