At BLVE Consults, we believe in the process.
Our mission is to create stronger organizations by building effective systems and processes and encouraging transformational leadership. BLVE connects you back to the mission and values of your work by building the structure necessary to make the space for creativity, ideas and innovation. We can support and activate your non profit organization right now. Our action and testing based approach is focused in three areas: Planning, Equity and Research.
What’s New @ BLVE?
Catalyst and Transformation Fund
Case Study: Phase 2 Released!
BLVE is excited to release Phase 2 of case study of the Toronto based Catalyst and Transformation Fund. The CAT Fund is a capacity-building program for creative sector organizations seeking support for substantive restructuring, mergers, structured partnerships, hibernations, and wind-downs. This phase of the report reflects updates on the funding process from the grantee perspective.
TRUE
TRAUMA, RESILIENCE AND UNDERSTANDING EQUITY
“TRUE creates actionable accountability in individuals and collectives, while centering human needs.”
Created by BLVE Collaborating Consultant Sarah Illiatovich-Goldman, Trauma, Resilience and Understanding Equity (TRUE) is an education and implementation model that builds an inclusive organization using a hybrid of trauma informed practices and DEI methodologies in long lasting meaningful ways. Most workshops only scratch the surface and don’t create a culture that is sustainable for a mission driven organization. By prioritizing human needs we are able to reduce harm in the workplace and increase well being while honoring boundaries. TRUE allows all positions within a workplace to create community, increase communication and problem solve. BLVE offers three different ways for your organization to engage in this meaningful work. Click the button below to learn more!
Lifecycle Research
Calgary Arts Development - Live Case Study
New Update Released November 3, 2022
BLVE and Calgary Arts Development have partnered to assess their Organizational Structural Grant program, the first program in North America focused directly on supporting arts organizations that are considering a merger, closure or organizational transformation. This program, like similar ones that have since been announced in Toronto and Edmonton, is a step towards normalization of organizational lifecycle for arts and culture organizations. BLVE has, for the last two years, been focused on finding opportunities to support organizations that are faced with existential circumstances. This completed report, which includes four total updates, was created through engagement with grantees and become engaged in assisting Calgary Arts Development in re-launching the 2nd year of the program.
What is Cultural Triage?
Cultural Triage is a movement. Cultural Triage is a call to action for non profit organizations to reconsider their organizational model, assess their place in the industry, and move forward into the post pandemic world in a way that promotes equity, diversity and inclusion. In addition, we encourage the ecology serving our arts and culture communities to engage deeply with the significant changes in organizational models and life cycle happening in our community. Foundations, Service Organizations, Municipalities and other organizations who serve the arts must be ready to change.
In an effort to meet the moment of COVID-19’s impact on arts organizations, we have composed and proposed new ways of thinking. This centers on models of operations which focus on community driven solutions and the reimagining of conventional structures and processes. In Cultural Triage, we propose a grounded method of solution that honors and celebrates an organization’s life cycle.
Transform Your Organization
If your organization is ready to change, BLVE is prepared to provide you with the tools to help it happen effectively and efficiently. We provide consulting in the arts & culture and social justice arenas including arts consulting, non-profit arts management help, arts admin search and recruiting, and general management assistance covering interim and overhire organization needs. We provide planning, recruitment and leadership for those wanting to transform their organizations. Our recruiting team can offer a large portfolio of resources, including a management and arts admin search function that pairs you with the best individuals in your field. We also provide strategic organizational planning and assessment to help you plan for the future, and fundraising and development assistance to build a strong funding base.
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