Industry Insights

The GLI Arts MBA journey is packed with innovative approaches, cross-sector insights, and diverse collaborations with arts organizations on the front lines. To make a snapshot of these dynamic resources available to the broader community, the Industry Insights blog highlights diverse perspectives from the GLI classroom and beyond, sharing practical tools and frameworks, inspiring cases, and spotlighting inventive projects and ideas.

Digital Fieldwork: Tools for Latin America

Knowledge and experience in program evaluation is essential to the growth and sustainability of social organizations, both to demonstrate visible impact to funders and partners as well as to improve the internal processes and structures upon which these organizations operate.

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The gift of note exchange: El Sistema Greece

In 2016, Anis Barnat was walking through one of the many refugee camps of Greece, and noticed that children there lacked any structure to their lives. He phoned his friend Elisa Sologni, and they spoke about the problems that he saw. Migrant children in Greek refugee camps do not receive enough support, education and opportunity to recover from challenging backgrounds and navigate society and culture in their new host countries.

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My Voice Music: Recording Reimagined

My Voice Music (MVM) is a recording studio and creative youth development program in Portland, Oregon, USA. Dedicated to “amplifying young voices and igniting self-discovery through music,” MVM works with youth ages 9–24 with a history of trauma.

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Sistema New Brunswick: Adaptive replication

Inspired by Venezuela’s FESNOJIV Sistema program, in 2009 Canada’s New Brunswick Youth Orchestra launched Sistema New Brunswick (SNB) in Moncton, New Brunswick. Since then, SNB has worked to inspire children and youth to achieve their full potential through learning and performing orchestral music with a major objective in mind…

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