New Pathways for Arts & Culture | Charlotte
An adaptive capacity building program for arts & culture organizations in Charlotte, NC
The New Pathways program will bring together teams from participating organizations for a new kind of professional development and training program around innovation and adaptive change, to form a sustained learning network, to share “next practices,” and to help guide and stimulate new thinking and action. We are excited to work with these ten very diverse organizations, each of which has a great potential to experiment and move in ambitious new directions.
Richard Evans, President, EmcArts

Program Components
- A sequence of six workshops and three participant-led Innovation Forums
- On-site Coaching for up to five organizations, with a $5,000 micro-grant to support experimentation
- A year-long, individually facilitated “deep dive” process for each organization to incubate a specific, larger-scale innovation initiative, with a $40,000 prototyping grant
- The opportunity to apply for capital grants from a multi-million-dollar innovation fund, held by the Foundation for the Carolinas, to support the scaling of those projects which bear the possibility of long-term, transformative impacts

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Somewhere Becoming Rain: Adaptive Change is the Future of the Arts
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Learning from the national Innovation Labs in the Arts
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An adaptive capacity building program for arts organizations in Houston, TX