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GROUND WORK
Description
This is our organisational development programme. It increases and develops the capacity of Common Ground to envisage, plan and manage its ongoing development.
Current Developments
Common Ground will concentrate on developing the organisation through the following ways:
- Recruit and employ an Executive Director
- Inviting visionary thinkers to meet and exchange with staff and board
2006: Peter Jenkinson - Biography
2007: Gerri Moriarty
- Biography
2007: Anna Cutler
- Biography
- Develop clear lines of communication with the local community and the wider arts community
- Provide opportunities for sectoral debate and dialogue involving local stakeholders and funders
- Develop and implement the appropriate systems and methodologies to monitor and evaluate our programmes
Common Ground’s research project, ‘Next Steps’ will be put out to tender in
the first quarter of 2008. Information on this will be posted on our ‘News’ section as it
becomes available.
- Review 2006/2007 Strategic Plan in order to inform the new Strategic Plan
- Induct new members onto the board of Common Ground
In 2007/2008 Common Ground have inducted five new board members
Common Ground is always interested to meet new people who feel they could contribute to the organisation as a Board member
- Funding Strategy Development
Common Ground is proud of its ability over the past nine years, to manage and develop relationships with a wide variety of funders. We are exact in identifying the requirements needed for a project or programme to succeed and are experienced in raising funding for these specific needs. Our work has been valued over the past few years by the following funders; The Arts Council and CDYSB; the Dormant Accounts Fund, Dublin City Council (both the Arts Office and unique funding from Housing & Community), St. Stephen’s Green Trust, the Canal Communities Local Drugs Task Force, the Canal Communities Partnership, Hewlett Packard and Accenture.
Being a multi funded organisation brings both challenges and rewards organisationally and our investment as a staff and board in developing positive funding relationships over many years has supported the expansion of common ground’s work across the Canals area with our project partners.
In 2007 Common Ground was delighted to be invited into the Arts Council Regularly Funded Organisations process (RFO). This outcome of this process led to our revenue funding for 2008 increasing by 34%.
Business Support
In 2006 Accenture created our website which led to us being nominated for a joint Business2Arts award. As a result a very positive working relationship has emerged between both organisations and we are very pleased to announce that in 2007 through Accenture’s
Corporate Social Responsibility programme Common Ground has been awarded €75,000
over three years towards the Music for Me programme. |
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