Strategic Planning Services

The Vendor is required to provide strategic planning process to support effective agency operations, identify areas of improvements and service.
- Requirement:
• Kick off meeting with council strategic plan staff workgroup to review detailed scope and timeline, discuss state-local partner engagement, confirm reading material list, and determine focus for literature and other research reviews.
• Other agenda items to be proposed by contractor.
• Background material review of including but not limited to:
o Current strategic framework document
o 2020-2022 evaluation and field scan reports
o Strategic framework committee memos and presentations
o Other comparable state arts agencies strategic plans
o Existing research on state nonprofits, arts and culture funding and other relevant topics
• Integrate any council research, and support and co-design grantee and field research that coincides with contract timeline.
• Engage and gather input from state-local partners via focus groups, select interview, survey or other means.
• Design and facilitate listening sessions with grantees and applicants from` the past three fiscal years.
• Conduct in-depth individual interviews with council leadership.
• Conduct small group or individual interviews with current council members in accordance with Bagley-Keene public meeting rules.
• Conduct in-depth individual interviews with key interested parties, including other state agency partners, state-based arts and culture funders, national arts funders and service organizations, former council members, elected representatives and others to be determined.
• Co-design and facilitate staff workshops to review findings and draft strategic plan, to include defining goals, objectives, strategies, timelines and responsible parties.
• As part of these workshops, staff will contribute knowledge and feedback from field engagement (outreach workshops etc.) and their informed thinking and expertise around grants programs and grantee and applicant experience.
• Participate in strategic framework committee meetings as requested.
• Attend and co-present at one to two public council meetings.
• Draft strategic plan and accompanying PowerPoint presentations.