Time: 11:30 – 12:30

 Most people are beginning to recognise that the side effects of our industrial age are unsustainable. As the fall-out creates increasing levels of turbulence, harnessing the restorative and regenerative power of the arts and culture in building our psychological resilience and designing the transition to a more life-sustaining civilisation is an imperative. 

In order to achieve this, those working in the arts must first build their own resilience and design themselves for transition. For the last four years, the Mission, Models, Money initiative has been working to help organisations move toward new operating structures and practices that can serve artists more effectively, elevate artistic achievement, and bolster organisational capacity to respond to shifting external realities. 

Clare Cooper, Co-Founder and Co-Director of Mission, Models, Money (MMM) tells the story of MMM and explains the thinking that lies behind its current phase of work. 

 Question and answer session with Clare Cooper will follow. 

Biography

Clare Cooper co-founded Mission, Models, Money with Roanne Dods and is leading MMM's fourth phase MMM: Designing for Transition (or Deft for short). 

 She started her career in arts management with the British Council in 1981. From 1991 to 2003 she focused primarily on partnership development and fundraising with a portfolio of clients which included many contemporary dance organisations, the largest of which was Laban where, from 1994 to 1999, she led the development of their award-winning Hertzog & de Meuron building, acting as project manager, partnership developer and fundraiser. In 1999 she moved to set up the capital campaign for Hampstead Theatre's new building. In 2001, she joined Arts & Business first taking the role of Director of Development and then becoming their first Director of Policy & Communications. She left A&B in 2005 to set up the third phase of MMM. She has served as a Trustee on the boards of a number of arts and higher education institutions over the last 15 years and is currently a Trustee of Cultivate East Midlands. She also blogs regularly for Arts Professional magazine. 

She was born and brought up in East Africa and currently lives and works part of the time in Scotland and part of the time in London.