Strategic Plan
Fiscal Years 2005-2007

The North Valley Arts Council supports arts and culture for the citizens in the Greater Grand Forks area through advocacy, service, and education. We work to meet the following goals by administering the projects listed below.

Goal 1: Provide services that support the arts in Greater Grand Forks
Need 1a: A central source of arts and cultural information
Strategy 1a: Be an arts information resource for arts providers, business and government leaders, and residents of Greater Grand Forks
1.1. Produce bi-monthly e-mail calendars of events
1.2. Produce quarterly newsletter and calendar of events
1.3. Be a resource to regional artists
1.4. Develop website as a resource for arts and cultural information
1.5. Promote website as an information resource
1.6. Create on-line arts calendars – one accessible to the public, the other a back-end calendar for use by arts providers for event scheduling

Need 1b: Professional development opportunities for arts providers
Strategy 1b: Provide training opportunities that will help arts providers develop career skills
1.7. Provide technical assistance and capacity-building services for arts providers
1.8. Provide professional development seminars and workshops for nonprofit professionals

Need 1c: Increased awareness of arts and culture in Greater Grand Forks
Strategy 1c: Provide materials and coordinate events that draw attention to the arts
1.9. Coordinate Arts in Action at Grand Cities Art Fest
1.10. Encourage non-arts organizations to use local arts resources
1.11. Provide networking opportunities for arts providers and local leaders

Need 1d: Economic support for the arts in Greater Grand Forks
Strategy 1d: Provide economic resources for arts organizations
1.12. Administer re-grant program
1.13. Explore leveraging City of Grand Forks grant dollars with other grants

Goal 2: Take and advocacy role in arts education
Need 2a: Awareness of and opportunities for arts education
Strategy 2a: Increase awareness of the value of arts education
2.1. Promote the arts as a tool for teaching
2.2. Partner with other organizations to enhance and promote arts educational opportunities
2.3. Serve as source of information on arts programs for students

Goal 3: Advocate for the arts
Need 3a: Resource for arts advocacy information
Strategy 3a: Inform the Greater Grand Forks community of arts advocacy issues
3.1. Work with local leaders to promote the arts
3.2. Keep NoVAC’s members informed of arts advocacy issues

Goal 4: Awareness of NoVAC as the central point of contact for arts-related information
Need 4a: Visible and accessible arts and cultural resource
Strategy 4a: Increase visibility of NoVAC and arts of arts community
4.1. Market arts programs and NoVAC
4.2. Develop marketing plan

Goal 5: Maintain NoVAC as a provider of services to arts and cultural community
Need 5a: Stable, reliable arts council
Strategy 5a: Provide for a diverse funding base to implement goals and objectives, and maintain administrative structure to implement goals and objectives
5.1. Seek foundation, corporate and government monies
5.2. Research other fund support
5.3. Increase membership base
5.4. Support Board development
5.6. Staff Training
5.7 Staff development