Where's The Money Continues!

Thank you for joining us for our very successful SMAC. Open Daily week! Check below for speaker PowerPoint presentations and informational flyers. All downloads are PDF files.

What's Next? So Many opportunities....so little time!
Make sure you check out our Arts Stabilization opportunities. New this year is Coaching for Executive Directors.

Where’s The Money Continues!

With partial support from Sacramento Region Community Foundation and Teichert Foundation.
All events are free with dates listed or TBA in our e-newsletter.

Board Development training with Kay Sprinkel Grace
May 19, 2012, 10am - 5pm, for organizations with small to mid-size budgets.
June 2, 2012, 10am - 5pm, for organizations with large budgets.
Both workshops will be held at 300 Richards Blvd., 2nd Floor, Room 221.
Contact Veronica Delgado for information on how to register at veronica@veraiconpr.com
In a full day workshop, including lunch, Kay will gracefully take board members and the executive staff that they work with through a process that inspires them to understand their role in the organization; how they must serve as a steward of the mission of their org; and how they can approach their important role of bringing in much needed resources to the org. Kay has 40+ years of experience in doing this work with huge successes in what can seem to be an overwhelming task.

Fundraising with Social Media
This special series on how to Use Social Media to Support Fundraising for the Arts is offered by the Nonprofit Resource Center free of charge to arts organizations with generous support by the Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission.  For more information and to register: www.nprcenter.org.
May 18, 2012 - Social Media and Fundraising for the Arts Part 1:“Teeing Up” Your Fund Development Efforts Using Social Media; 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 a.m.
June 15, 2012 - Social Media and Fundraising for the Arts Part 2: Designing and Implementing “The Social Media Ask” for Arts Fundraisers, Events and Campaigns; 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

Accounting Management For Artists and Small Arts Businesses
This workshop is produced by the California Lawyers for the Arts.
May 21, 2012, 10am to 1pm.
300 Richards Blvd., 2nd Floor, Room 200.
For more information and to register go to www.calawyersforthearts.org.
This is an Accounting class that will explain terms and processes for the business management of artists and small arts organizations. The class will include Accounting Theory and the Bookkeeping process. This workshop will give artists and arts organizations business tools to help them manage and grow their business. Presenter Info:  Cristina Lopez, Chief Executive Officer of Lopez Iwata and Associates Lopez Iwata and Associates is a Financial Accounting and Bookkeeping firm focused on helping small businesses grow and become sustainable. Cristina has taught bookkeeping classes for the Small Business Development Center and works with a variety of artistic clientele from Performance Artists to Fine Artists. 

"It's Not About You…It's About Them"  
A Donor Development Workshop with Marcy Cady of Helicon Collaborative
June 11, 2012; 4pm – 6pm. Register Now!
The Urban Hive, 1931 H Street, Sacramento CA 95814.
Fundraising techniques and how to use the values that motivate arts donors to identify and reach individual contributors for your programs and your organization.  Based on Helicon Collaborative and Wolf/ Brown's 2010 research on donors small, mid-sized and large Bay Area arts organizations through the  Fund for Artists.

SMAC. Open Daily
A recap.....

March 7 through - March 10, 2012, sponsored in part by: Urban Land Institute, Roger Niello, Arts & Business Council of Sacramento, Cornish and Carey Newmark, Sacramento Region Community Foundation, KVIE, Crocker Art Museum, Crest Theater.

Where’s the Money Symposium - Year 2
WTM was held on Wednesday, March 7, 2012 at KVIE, 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
The arts funding symposium brought to Sacramento top research and strategies to develop long term success right now. There were great conversations discussing the newest trends and resources available to arts organizations.
Download a PDF of the presentation by Randy Cohen, VP of Marketing, Americans for the Arts.
Download a PDF of the handout, 10 Reasons to Support the Arts, Americans for the Arts.
Download a PDF of the presentation by Kim Klein - Nonprofits Talking Taxes.
Download a PDF of an information flyer from the Center for Cultural Innovation.
Download a PDF of the opportunities available in 2012 at the Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission.

Sacramento's Creative Industries in the Next Economy with Randy Cohen
This talk was held on Thursday, March 8, 2012, City Hall Chambers, 7:30-10:00 a.m.
Download a PDF of the presentation by Randy Cohen, VP of Marketing, Americans for the Arts.
Download a PDF of the handout, 10 Reasons to Support the Arts, Americans for the Arts.

Private Money/ Public Art
This informative panel discussion was held on Thursday, March 8, 2012 at the Crest Theatre, 5:00-6:30p.m. Art in Public Places Director, Shelly Willis moderated a discussion with Sacramento developers about art in commercial development projects. Panelists included developers Mike Heller, Ellen Warner and, Ali Youssefi.

Opening Reception of Robert T. Matsui Gallery
The Opening reception was held at the gallery on March 8th, but please come by to view the exhibition, “Home Works” by Benjamin Hunt during City Hall public hours. The exhibit will be up through June 30, 2012.

Poet's Party
This amazing party for Sacramento's poetry community was held on Friday, March 9, 2012 at the Crocker Art Museum, followed by a reception. The Arts Commission announced the opening of the application for Poet Laureate. The deadline to apply is May 21, 2012.

Fusing Arts, Culture and Social Change: High Impact Strategies for Philanthropy
A dynamic presentation by Holly Sidford of Helicon Collaborative and a discussion on today’s philanthropic climate and social change, and how it relates to Sacramento was held Friday, March 9, 2012 at the Crocker Art Museum.