The San Francisco Arts Commission has engaged the Arts Management Consulting Firm, AMS Planning & Research (AMS) to help develop its next strategic plan, which will guide the work of the Arts Commission over the next five years.
As a member of San Francisco's arts community, your input is crucial to this process. The Arts Commission hosted a series of community open houses and are administering a public survey to gather feedback on how the SFAC has been working, what it can do better, and what the agency's updated five-year strategic plan should prioritize.
We invite you to take our Arts Community Public Survey. Visit: bit.ly/artsurveysfac
This survey should take you about 10 minutes to complete and will remain open until 11:59 pm on Monday, March 31st. If you have any technical difficulties, please reach out to Lauren Frankel at lfrankel@ams-online.com
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Past Arts Community Open Houses
Tuesday, March 4, 2025
San Francisco Arts Commission
401 Van Ness Avenue, Suite 125 (1st floor conference room)
10 a.m. – 2 p.m. & 5 p.m. – 9 p.m.
Wednesday, March 5, 2025
San Francisco Arts Commission
401 Van Ness Avenue, Suite 125 (1st floor conference room)
10 a.m. – 2 p.m. & 5 p.m. – 9 p.m.
Virtual Open House
Friday, March 7, 2025
12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.
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Past Strategic Plan
In 2013, the Arts Commission with support from Museum Management Consultants, Inc. and MIG, Inc., embarked on a comprehensive strategic planning process with the goal of better articulating our vision for the next five years. During the course of this process we listened to almost 100 constituents, refreshed our mission statement, confirmed our values and identified areas in need of improvement so that we could better serve San Francisco
Here you’ll find a project schedule that shows all the activities we conducted along with key project deliverables, including:
- Key findings from our needs assessment;
- Bench Marking Study where we compared the San Francisco Arts Commission with the local arts agencies from five other major US cities;
- Visioning Workshop Summary, a document summarizing the work of staff and the Commission to develop a draft vision; and
- 2014-2019 Strategic Plan.
This 2014-2019 Strategic Plan was made possible in part by The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.