Arts & Culture Consulting Group

NESC has been a source of great management help to arts organizations in and around New York City for many years. From strengthening boards to audience development, from fiscal management to strategic planning, the Arts & Culture Group has enabled dance companies, music groups large and small, theater groups, performing arts organizations, libraries and parks to make the most efficient use of their fiscal and human resources. Because its highly experienced consultants donate their services, NESC's arts consulting group can offer its services at a very affordable price.

NESC Arts & Culture Consulting Services

Board Development Board Retreat & Meeting Facilitation Branding Business & Strategic Planning Executive Coaching & Mentoring Executive Search Facilities Management & Space Planning Financial Management

Fiscal Management & Accounting Services Human Resources & Organizational Analysis Marketing & Market Research Operations Review Risk Assessment Shared Services Social Enterprise/Earned Income

The Special Mentoring Program

For small arts and culture groups, NESC offers a unique consulting program. For a very modest fee, a client can schedule monthly visits with a team of NESC consultants specifically qualified to address issues chosen by the client.

Arts & Culture Clients

Actors' Equity Association Actors' Fund of America American Council for the Arts Asia Society Brooklyn Botanic Garden Children's Museum of Connecticut Connecticut State Library El Museo del Barrio Harlem Textile Works Highlands Regional Library Cooperative Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts

Museum for African Art National Association of Women Artists New England Air Museum Princeton Pro Musica Puerto Rican Traveling Theater Queens Symphony Orchestra Salmagundi Club South Windsor Historical Society Summit Music Festival The Metropolitan Museum of Art The New York Public Library Western Connecticut Youth Orchestra

How NESC Helps Arts & Culture Clients

Financial Management
For a Manhattan dance troupe wrestling with spiraling costs, NESC crafted a realistic budget and spending controls that have put the group solidly into the black.

Social Enterprise/Earned Income
For a Connecticut museum seeking greater returns from its Museum Store, NESC proposed revamping the layout, changing the merchandise mix and improving marketing.

Board Restructuring
For a Queens classical music ensemble troubled by flat fundraising, NESC found ways to restructure the group's board, transforming it into a powerful fundraising engine.

Executive Search
For an international arts and culture organization, NESC recruited a new CEO, who reversed a loss and generated a large surplus.

Board Governance
For a Manhattan museum seeking to make its board more effective, NESC devised a new governance structure and identified ways for board members to make stronger contributions to the organization.

Audience Development
For a Queens theater with faltering ticket sales, NESC crafted a workable and affordable marketing plan.

Board Retreat
A Staten Island museum asked NESC to facilitate a board retreat on strategic planning and board development to strengthen governance and committee structure and to motivate its board to raise money.

Fiscal Management & Accounting Services
For a Westchester County education and museum facility, the NESC team provides monthly supervision of budgets and financial reports, and performs essential bookkeeping and accounting operations.