What We Offer
The DeVos Institute of Arts Management provides training, consultation, and implementation support for arts managers and their boards.
Institute leadership and consultants—all arts managers themselves—understand that, in today’s environment, there is no time or resource to waste. Therefore, Institute services are lean, direct, and practical.
The DeVos Institute has designed its services to assist a wide range of institutions, from traditional performing and presenting organizations, museums and galleries, arts schools and libraries, to botanical gardens, glass-making studios, public art trusts, and non-profit cinemas, to name a few. It offers support to individuals, organizations, and—in collaboration with foundations and governments—to communities of organizations throughout the world.
The Institute's customized consultancies address the most pressing challenges facing arts organizations today.
Strategic Planning
The Institute's core service provides in-depth, comprehensive, implementable strategic plans.
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Capital Campaign Planning
Comprehensive campaign planning services assist organizations of any size in designing, planning, and executing a game-changing capital campaign.
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Executive Search
Comprehensive campaign planning services assist organizations of any size in designing, planning, and executing a game-changing capital campaign.
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Client List
While environments, objectives, and disciplines vary, each of the Institute's clients shares the desire to create, market, and sustain exemplary cultural programs.
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Organizational Audits
The Institute's Organizational Audit results in a renewed focus on the most salient issues facing a client, as well as a series of short-term recommendations to stabilize or strengthen an organization.
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Other Planning and Implementation Services
The Institute offers "business unit" planning support in marketing, fundraising, and other areas.
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Pandemic Response Planning for Non-Profit Arts, Culture, and Humanities Organizations
The Institute offers "business unit" planning support in marketing, fundraising, and other areas.
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Private Intensives for Individual Organizations
The Institute offers short- and long-term training, planning, and evaluation intensives for board and staff teams.
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Advancing Capital Infrastructure Projects During A Period Of Uncertainty
ADVANCING CAPITAL INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS DURING A PERIOD OF UNCERTAINTY
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Catalytic Fundraising In The Pandemic Era
ADVANCING CULTURAL INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS DURING A PERIOD OF UNCERTAINTY
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Cultural Institutions in Development
The Institute works with new organizations from pre-development and capital planning to organizational development and inaugural season management.
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The DeVos Institute partners with governments, foundations, and other funders worldwide to train and support executive, artistic, and board leadership in their cities or regions of interest.
Regional and National Capacity Building Programs
The DeVos Institute’s Capacity Building Intensives provide in-depth training and consultation to arts organizations in a city, region, or nation. Combining in-person group seminars, online master classes, and onsite consultation, the Institute’s approach blends universal best practices and rigorous localization.
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Capacity Building: Grand Rapids
The Dick and Betsy DeVos Family Foundation, in partnership with the DeVos Institute of Arts Management, is pleased to announce Capacity Building: Grand Rapids, a two-year technical assistance and strategic planning
intensive for up to 15 non-profit arts and cultural organizations throughout greater Grand Rapids and surrounding towns.
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Board Development Intensives
The DeVos Institute has designed its Board Development Intensives for staff and board members to help put joy, vision, and sustainability back at the center of the conversation. These Intensives provide board members and senior executives with practical guidance on such crucial topics as fundraising, board development, hiring an executive director, and financial planning.
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The Institute provides transformative training programs that enable arts managers to strengthen the arts and cultural landscape worldwide.
Global Executive Arts Management Fellowship
The DeVos Institute offers three-year fellowships to serve arts managers worldwide.
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Research and Exploration
The DeVos Institute explores the greatest issues of concern to the future of the arts.
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The Cycle: Management of Successful Arts and Cultural Organizations
This free online course is designed for arts managers, board members, funders, students, and others interested in how to build thriving and vital cultural institutions around the world.
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DeVos Institute Internships
As a leading provider of arts management training worldwide, the DeVos Institute and its leadership offer valuable, hands-on experience for current students and recent graduates in a dynamic, entrepreneurial environment.
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