Managers of member
companies with budgets
of $15 million and greater      

Capitalization in a Recessionary Economy, by Rodney Christopher of Nonprofit Finance Fund (NFF)
In the current economic climate, traditional thinking about how to best capitalize a premier dance company may be flawed. We’ll engage in a conversation about your balance sheets, particularly your endowments and reserves, and how you can manage your business in this economic climate to provide the optimal capitalization to serve your needs now and well into the future.

 
Special thanks to the Nonprofit Finance Fund for providing this seminar, which was made possible through the generous support of the MetLife Foundation.

Capitalization in a Recessionary Economy, by Rodney Christopher of  Nonprofit Finance Fund (NFF)
In the current economic climate, traditional thinking about how to best capitalize a premier dance company may be flawed. We’ll engage in a conversation about your balance sheets, particularly your endowments and reserves, and how you can manage your business in this economic climate to provide the optimal capitalization to serve your needs now and well into the future. 

 
Special thanks to the Nonprofit Finance Fund for providing this seminar, which was made possible through the generous support of the MetLife Foundation.

Creating, Presenting and Touring Dance—past, present and future.
Produced by: Ben Pryor, Chair of the Agent/ Artist Representative Council; Paul Organisak, Chair of Presenters Council; Mark Roxey, Chair of the Managers Council of budget sizes $750,000-$2.9 Million; Jane Forde of the New England Foundation for the Arts; and Paul King of White Bird Dance and Dance/USA Board Chair elect. 
Overall moderator: Ben Pryor

Part I: Identify how the stages of the creative/production/booking/touring process are faced with “New Realities”; what is becoming more complicated about these stages and creative solutions to improving them.  (Moderated by Paul King, approximately 1 hour)

Part II: Renewing  presenter, dance company and agent relationships in the context of our shifting industry. Revealing the top boundaries for presenting dance from all sides, revealing and rediscovering new ways to solve those barriers.  (Moderated by Paul Organisak, approximately 1 hour)

-15 minute break-

Part III: Studio to Stage—Production Residencies for Dance Thanks to planning support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the New England Foundation for the Arts, with the National Dance Project, is in the process of examining available resources for the development of new dance work.   Tagging on to the lively Dance/USA Forum conversation in January 2009 at Arts Presenters, and with an eye toward building a stronger and better coordinated system of support, NEFA will share observations and findings to date.  The aim is to exchange insights on the realities of creating, developing, and presenting dance in the 21st century. (Moderated by Jane Forde, approximately 1 hour)

Options for the last 1.5 hours [when Jane Forde is presenting info on touring programs to the artists and presenters]
Return to our council room and discuss any of the following:

• Best new programs that could be replicated elsewhere
• Approaches on how to advise groups on the brink of closing
• Talking with Andrea about self production and home season options – thinking outside the traditional one weekend box
• ? – a subject that bubbles up from first day

“What Do I Do With All of the Information from the Post-Hire Screen For Professional Dancers?”
by Heather Herod Cole, MSPT
If you have previously participated or are interested in participating in conducting the post-hire screen for professional dancers, and need to know what to do with your data, this presentation should provide some clarity.  Heather Herod Cole, with the feedback from the Research committee, created a template using Microsoft Excel for data entry purposes.  The objectives of the presentation are:
1. To become familiar with the basics of Microsoft Excel, including how to do easy calculations
2. To learn how to navigate through the screen template
3. To learn how to enter the data from the objective portion of the screen into the Microsoft Excel template in a way that’s consistent with all companies that are participating
It is the hope of the research committee to have a basic, easy-to-use tool that is consistent across companies.  By doing so, this will provide an easier way to compare dancer injuries across the nation and increase the potential for research opportunities.  
This is a program you can download free of charge that you can use for your dance company.  Please feel free to bring along your flash drive or computer so you can obtain a copy. 
For more on the Task Force on Dancer's Health and to contact the chair, click here.
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