How can digital strategy focus on the people who benefit most from an arts organization’s success? How can connections with key beneficiaries become more joyful, efficient, and inclusive through the use of technology?

This informative toolkit demystifies a people-first approach to digital strategic planning, using the real-world case of Ottawa’s Odyssey Theatre. Discover how to prioritize people, not technology, in your strategy.

Collaborators: Rachel Gray, Odyssey Theatre

With funding support from the Canada Council for the Arts.

What if arts organizations were better able to calculate the social and economic benefits they bring to their local communities? Launched in January 2024, this collaboration with Arts Network Ottawa (ANO) seeks to study the feasibility and potential merits of developing an open-source, web-based impact calculator for arts organizations.

Leveraging ANO’s extensive network of artists, arts organizations, and community service nonprofits, the project aims to understand and propose solutions to the challenge of impact measurement in the arts, while building on existing community resources and expertise.

With funding support from the Ottawa Community Foundation.

How might we improve access to the arts as a pathway to achieving good health and wellbeing in Canada?
Co-created at the Ottawa Art Gallery’s HeARTcare Symposium (Nov 2024), this national strategy report captures key insights and maps out a three-year roadmap for cross-sector collaboration by identifying gaps, surfacing opportunities, and proposing pathways to support well-being through the arts.
Presented in partnership with Radical Connections.