Succession Planning Sessions
Bihl Haus Arts
Succession Planning Sessions
Project details
What we need
- 3-5 one hour strategy sessions with a change management professional covering topics like identifying key positions and successors, transition timelines, and action planning for developing existing staff for leadership roles
- Coaching on how to engage senior leaders and key funders, and strategies for gaining the commitment of board members and staff to manage a planned or an unexpected transition intentionally
Additional details
I am the founder and CEO and my husband is the Board President. We both just turned 70 and it's time for us to go by this time next year at the latest. Our organization needs help with this transition. The organization is in a stable financial position.
What we have in place
- We currently have a very basic 5-year-old succession plan, which should make it easy for you to get started. We also have board members who are in denial,, and the ability to provide any other information you need.
How this will help
This project will save us $4,198 , allowing us to help pay for the new hire to shadow me during the transition period.
During COVID, my husband and I had a lot of time to think about what we need to do for ourselves in the time we have left. We hope to turn this over to someone who is younger, experienced in non-profit management with a love of the arts, string networking skills and the ability to increase donor and corporate gifts.
Project plan
Posted by
Kellen M.
Executive Director
Our mission
The Mission of Bihl Haus Arts--Creating Community through the Arts--is founded on the belief that each person, when given an opportunity, will achieve significant personal, social and cultural growth through the arts. To support its mission, BHA nurtures and promotes the work of diverse visual and cultural artists in San Antonio; fosters artistic excellence and intergenerational and multicultural understanding and awareness; builds collaborations with other organizations to maximize access to resources; and creates community between older adults and veterans enrolled in BHA art classes, area established and emerging artists, members of surrounding neighborhoods and the global art culture.
What we do
In 2005 the George Bihl home on Fredericksburg Road was renovated and converted into Bihl Haus Arts (BHA), a community art gallery on the premises of The sorento (formerly Primrose) Affordable Senior Apartments. The renovation garnered a San Antonio Conservation Society award for innovative reuse of a historic building. BHA has three main programs. 1) The Gallery presents six exhibits/yr with 700+ artists (65% women and/or Latinx) have participated in 100+ exhibits. 2) BHA's annual On & Off Fred Road Studio Tour features 70+ artists in their live/work spaces. And 3) BHA offers two arts education programs. The pioneering nationally recognized "creative aging" GO! Arts program provides free art classes at 17 senior centers to 900+ seniors/yr in 9 of 10 council districts. Its mental, physical & emotional benefits are verified in two UTHealthSA/UTSA peer-reviewed studies (Arts & Health 2012; Holistic Nursing 2017): "structural aspects of the class, free instruction and materials, flexible participation and leadership facilitated...positive psychosocial changes in participants' lives." Modeled on GO! Arts, BHA launched Forward, Arts! in 2018 to provide healing arts experiences to Veterans with PTSD and depression. BHA programs serve 27,000/year. In the next 5 years, we envision increasing audiences by 25% and expanding both education programs to reach more older adults and veterans. BHA has a FT ED, a PT gallery manager, 12 contracted teachers; tech, bookkeeping, PR, website and social media consultants; a 20-member volunteer Docent Committee; and an 8-member board.