Flight Path Dance Project: How to go from start-up to long haul?

This isn’t just the question for Flight Path as an organization, it’s the question that they help the young dancers they serve answer in their own careers. Unlike most professionals, dancers have a very short window to turn their talent into a sustainable lifetime endeavor. They have to literally hit the ground running with people skills and practical knowledge to move past a successful season or two. We worked with Flight Path to consider how to bring all of the tools they give their students into their own approach. Their challenge: turning the brilliant vision of a seasoned professional into a full scale, financially stable enterprise.

This translates to:

• Board development

• Expanding the pool of donors and cultivating relationships

• Migrating from constant needs-based fundraising to a steady giving strategy

• Staff and leadership training