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Navigating Uncertain Times: A Scenario Planning Toolkit for the Arts & Culture Sector
The Wallace Foundation today released Navigating Uncertain Times: A Scenario Planning Toolkit for the Arts & Culture, a scenario planning toolkit developed by AEA Consulting to help arts and culture organizations approach planning for a future likely marked by increased uncertainty and complexity, including the far-reaching effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, the response to the need for racial and social justice, climate change, emerging technologies, as well as circumstances still unforeseen.
The free toolkit is accompanied by a new report, Arts Organizations' Early Response to COVID-19 Uncertainty: Insights from the Field, also commissioned by The Wallace Foundation and developed by AEA Consulting. Reflecting the perspectives of over 160 not-for-profit arts leaders on the implications of COVID-19 for the sector, the report outlines various strategies deployed to address these impacts and the priorities identified by practitioners as their organizations navigate the effects of the pandemic.
View and download the scenario planning toolkit here and the report here.
Scenario Planning for Arts and Culture
At the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic, AEA's team released an article highlighting scenario planning as a tool to guide arts leaders in long-term thinking and strategic development, helping best position their organizations when moving into an unknown future. This article explains more about the process that underpins the research and development of the scenarios presented in AEA and The Wallace Foundation's new scenario planning toolkit, Navigating Uncertain Times.
Read April's article here.
Reimagining the Future of the Arts
Join us on Wednesday, Novemeber 18 at 1pm EST, as part of The Wallace Foundation's Reimagining the Future of the Arts webinar series, where AEA's Daniel Payne will present key findings from the study, Arts Organizations' Early Response to COVID-19 Uncertainty: Insights from the Field, and the scenario planning toolkit. The session will focus on how organizations can approach planning for the future, with insights from arts practitioners from across the United States.
Register here.
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