AFCM Strategic Plan 2024-2026 Released
Posted: September 18, 2024
AFCM Strategic Plan 2024-2026 Released
In 2023 Arizona Friends of Chamber Music undertook a strategic planning process, as the previous strategic plan was concluding. The purpose was the creation of an actionable three-year strategic plan with clear milestones, and with implications further into the future. The plan was built through a series of six intensive working sessions with a Strategic Planning Task Force, beginning in September, with a draft plan for board approval by January, 2024. The new Strategic Plan becomes active in early 2024, and concludes in January 2027. The envisioning was driven by the Question: “What does Arizona Friends of Chamber Music look like on the morning of January 1, 2027?” The comprehensive strategic planning process was assisted by the strategic planning facilitation firm, Claire West – Consulting. Principal, Claire West, has a relationship with AFCM reaching back to the 1990s.
Arizona Friends of Chamber Music (AFCM) was founded in the 1940s and steadily grew to represent Tucson’s go-to series featuring top-notch touring musicians from around the world. In the 1990s, still operating primarily as a volunteer-driven concern, the Piano & Friends series and Tucson Winter Chamber Music Festival were added, as audiences clamoured for more and concerts sold out. Today, AFCM continues its tradition of representing the chamber music genre in its highest professional form.The AFCM long-range plan is built on distinct pillars or priorities –
GOVERNANCE
INFRASTRUCTURE/ADMINISTRATION
FINANCE
AUDIENCE/DONOR DEVELOPMENT
Goals to be reached by 2027 are attached to each Pillar. Each goal is followed by objectives, tactics, timing, responsibility, and measurement.
Below are links to the Summarized Plan and Full Plan with detail.