2024-605-E-Arts Commission-Sisters' Voices-Rent Support for Sisters' Voices Rehearsals, Programs, and Perform

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Organizational Goals In terms of programming goals, Sisters’ Voices has a fierce commitment to offer a diverse and rich multicultural program of music for our singers to learn, master and perform for our audiences. W e have singers who come from or whose parents come from many different countries and cultures around the world including Uganda, Mexico, Guatemala, Venezuela, Brazil, Uraguay, China, Korea, India, Germany, France, Lebanon, Israel, Hungary, and Uzbekistan. Our Artistic Director strives to find music that reflects this diversity and exposes other cultures to our singers and audiences. This past year, SV sang songs that reflected the traditional sounds, percussion and languages of South Africa, Venezuela, China, Malaysia, Norway, India, Hawaii, and African American roots music. During the process of learning the music, our Artistic Director consults with native speakers, has the singers listen to recordings and uses other resources to bring an authenticity and competency to the sounds, vocabulary, rhythms and harmony that may be new and different to the singers. Another goal is to increase our enrollment. During the 2023-24 year, we added a high school ensemble (SV-Five) and a small Chamber group of four highly dedicated and experienced singers to our roster. For the 2024- 25 year, we plan to grow our younger ensembles and to add a SV-Stepping In group for new middle school and high school students who want to sing with Sisters’ Voices but don’t yet have the musical skills, technique and stamina to sing in the older ensembles. In terms of organizational goals, our priorities this coming year include: 1. Increasing donations toward our Scholarship fund by 50%. 2. Building our Board of Directors by adding two or more individuals. W e are especially interested in bringing in people of color and someone who has interest or experience in fundraising and soliciting corporate donations. 3. W e have added three ensembles since we last adjusted our Artistic/Executive Director's salary, and as we grow we are working to increase her salary in a way that is both fair and achievable for our organization. W e are in the process of a salary study to understand how other organizations compensate their directors. 4. W e now have three part time Administrative staff including a Community Coordinator, an Outreach Director, and a Financial Director. W e are building the capacity to hire an Executive Director who could take over some of these responsibilities and support the work of our Artistic Director so she can focus on programming and providing quality music and leadership education for the singers. 5. A long term goal is to eventually move into a more permanent space that will allow us to grow more in both numbers of singers and programming. W e were grateful to receive funding from OCAC last year to help cover much of our rental fee. Operational support from OCAC again this year would allow SV to continue to offset much of our costs as we continue to recover from Covid, build our high school program, and grow the size of all of our ensembles. Docusign Envelope ID: 5E6F8E2E-FE2C-436D-A06C-2B31BCD96BED