Americans for the Arts
Emerging Leader Survey Results – What do they Mean to You?
Posted by Apr 27, 2010 1 comment
Americans for the Arts
by Emily Spruill and Stephanie Evans
As the Americans for the Arts’ Emerging Leaders Council started to develop our focus for the coming years, we kept asking ourselves, who is our audience? What do they need? So before we start assuming how we can help emerging leaders, we decided to ask you. The Emerging Leaders Council spent 2009 drafting the questions for an Emerging Leaders Network Field Survey. By January 2010, 554 of you had let us know about yourself and what’s on your mind.
The survey confirmed a lot of what we thought to be true: Most of you are very active in seeking out professional development – either within your community or at national convenings. The majority of you (over 75%) are also very involved with advocating for the arts at the local and/or national level.
While the survey results indicate that emerging arts leaders want and need professional development, only 31% of you indicated that there is a budget line for professional development in your organization’s budget. It is clear that organizational support for employee’s professional development has been reduced or eliminated entirely in 2009/2010 budgets.
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