Broadway Rose Theatre Company (BRTC) of Tigard, OR has hired The Canoe Group to guide the organization through the development of a new strategic plan.

BRTC is the only organization in the state exclusively devoted to musical theater and has developed passionate audiences from Salem, OR to Vancouver, WA. In 2008, BRTC completed a $2M dollar capital campaign to create a state-of-the-art theater out of a ‘cafetorium’ previously used by Tigard’s C.F. Tigard Elementary School.

Arrival of new Executive Director Brenda MacRoberts led Producing Artistic Director and Co-Founder Sharon Maroney to engage The Canoe Group in early 2011 for leadership coaching to facilitate the transition and role clarification.

As an outgrowth of the coaching sessions, BRTC submitted capacity building proposals, which resulted in planning grants from the James F. and Marion L. Miller Foundation and the Oregon Cultural Trust.

A highly focused four-month Board and Staff 2012-2015 strategic planning process provides focus for annual goals and budgeting by January 2012.

About Broadway Rose Theatre Company
Broadway Rose Theatre Company has been entertaining audiences with big Broadway musicals, comedies, and revues since 1992 and is proud to be Oregon’s largest professional nonprofit musical theater company.

As we head into the holiday weekend, I write to share a bit of good news.

This afternoon, we received word that our blog will now appear on Alltop as one of the top Nonprofit News site on the web.  It’s an exciting development and humbling to appear on this site with so many other wonderful colleagues and organizations.

Here’s a little background on Alltop (courtesy of them) if you’re unfamiliar with the site:

The purpose of Alltop is to help you answer the question, “What’s happening?” in “all the topics” that interest you. You may wonder how Alltop is different from a search engine. A search engine is good to answer a question like, “How many people live in China?” However, it has a much harder time answering the question, “What’s happening in China?” That’s the kind of question that we answer.

We do this by collecting the headlines of the latest stories from the best sites and blogs that cover a topic. We group these collections — “aggregations” — into individual web pages. Then we display the five most recent headlines of the information sources as well as their first paragraph.

If this is your first time on our blog, we encourage you to take a spin to see what all the fuss is about.

With planning work beginning in July, The Canoe Group guided collaborative design and event development for the second year in a row for the 2010 Oregon Arts Summit. Rebranding the Summit, The Canoe Group’s work with Oregon Arts Commission staff and TCC Group resulted in a standing room only event at the Tiger Woods Center in Beaverton, Oregon on October 7 during the Oregon Days of Culture.

This year’s theme, The Art of Adaptation: New tools, new ideas & tested practices, was developed specifically to connect business, education, political and arts leaders and to develop adaptive capacities in the face of new economic pressures.

About the Oregon Arts Commission
The Oregon Arts Commission was established in 1967 to foster the arts in Oregon and ensure their excellence. Nine Commissioners, appointed by the Governor, determine policies, establish long-range plans, and review applications to grants programs to determine funding levels. In 1993, the Oregon Arts Commission became a division of the Oregon Business Development Department.

The National Assembly of State Arts Agencies will present their Assembly 2010 on October 14-16, 2010 in Austin, Texas. Hosted by the Texas Commission on the Arts, this three day event features learning and networking opportunities for state arts agency staff and council members from across the country.

Michael Kosmala will be joining colleagues from Arts Commission’s in Arizona, Kansas and Oregon to reprise a presentation they made together at the Arts Education Partnership’s National Forum in Washington, DC last April.

Harnessing New Technologies for Arts Learning and Participation will include a case study from an ongoing Canoe Group web project with the Oregon Cultural Trust in support of their annual Oregon Days of Culture event. You can learn more about this project by going to their website at www.oregondaysofculture.org.