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Team Bios of
The North Group Inc.
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Alice H. North, President
The North Group Inc.
As co-head of The North Group Inc. which she and Halsey North founded in 1987, Alice North has assisted theaters, performing arts centers, arts councils, and arts service organizations across the country with fundraising feasibility studies, capital and endowment campaigns, annual operating campaigns, solicitor training, strategic planning, board development and retreats, cultural planning, organizational assessments, business plans, and workshops on fundraising, board development, and planning. For their work, she and Halsey received the Chairman's Award from the National Assembly of Local Arts Agencies (now Americans for The Arts) in 1993.
Alice has assisted the following organizations, among others (bold signifies
major, active, and/or ongoing clients):
- Arkansas:
Walton Arts Center and Fayetteville Public Library in Fayetteville
Writers' Colony in Eureka Springs
- Alabama:
The Arts Council in Huntsville
Princess Theatre in Decatur
- California:
Arts Council of Santa Clara County in San Jose
Gallo Center for the Arts in Modesto
George Coates Performance Works, San Francisco Chanticleer, and San Francisco Girls Chorus in San Francisco
Oakland Youth Chorus in Oakland
UC Davis Presents in Davis
- Colorado:
Dance Aspen in Aspen
Lincoln Center in Fort Collins
- Connecticut:
Garde Arts Center in New London
Warner Theatre in Torrington
- Delaware:
Wilmington Music School and Brandywine Baroque in Wilmington
- Florida:
Broward Center for the Performing Arts in Fort Lauderdale
Jacksonville Art Museum in Jacksonville
Ruth Eckerd Hall in Clearwater
Tampa Theatre in Tampa
- Georgia:
Southern Arts Federation and Metro Arts in Atlanta
Georgia Assembly of Community Arts Agencies in Rome
- Hawaii:
Honolulu Theatre For Youth in Honolulu, Oahu
Hui No 'eau Visual Arts Center in Makawao, Maui
Maui Arts & Cultural Center in Kahului, Maui
- Idaho:
Idaho Shakespeare Festival in Boise
Idaho Falls Arts Council/Willard Arts Center/Colonial Theatre in Idaho Falls
- Indiana:
Arts United of Greater Fort Wayne
- Maine:
Bay Chamber Concerts in Rockport
University of Maine/Augusta and The Maine Arts Sponsors Association in Augusta
Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts in Newcastle
- Maryland:
Maryland State Arts Council and Baltimore Opera Company in Baltimore
- Massachusetts:
Arts Extension Service at the University of Massachusetts Amherst
The Colonial Theatre in Pittsfield
Institute of Contemporary Art and Boston Computer Society in Boston
- Nebraska:
Opera/Omaha and Nebraska Arts Council in Omaha
- New Hampshire:
North Country Studio Workshops in Hanover
- New Jersey:
Arts & Business Partnership of Southern New Jersey in Cape May
Montclair Art Museum in Montclair
New Brunswick Cultural Center in New Brunswick
New Jersey State Council on the Arts Challenge Fund
Wheaton Village Glass Center in Millville
- New Mexico:
Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival
- New York:
American Academy in Rome, American Institute of Graphic Arts, American Music Center, Association of Hispanic Arts, Chamber Music America, Cultural Council Foundation, Elaine Kaufman Cultural Center, Hostos Culture & Arts Program, National Guild of Community Schools of the Arts, New York University Department of Art, and North American Performing Arts Managers & Agents in New York City
The Arts Center of the Capital Region in Troy
Clemens Center in Elmira
East End Arts Council in Riverhead
Empire State Craft Alliance in Corning
Hudson Opera House in Hudson
NYS Arts/Alliance of New York State Arts Organizations in Mattituck
Orpheus Theatre and Orpheus Performing Arts & Conference Center in Oneonta
Proctor's Theatre in Schenectady
The Stanley Performing Arts Center in Utica
The Tarrytown Music Hall in Tarrytown
Ulster Performing Arts Center in Kingston
Westchester Arts Council in White Plains
- North Carolina:
Alliance for a Regional Concert Hall and Thalian Hall Center for the Performing Arts in Wilmington
Asheville Arts Council in Asheville
Carolina Theatre and Durham Arts Council in Durham
Raleigh Little Theatre in Raleigh
- Ohio:
E.J. Thomas Hall/University of Akron and Akron Civic Theatre in Akron
Oberlin Conservatory of Music in Oberlin
Great Lakes Theater Festival/Hanna Theatre project and Dance Cleveland in Cleveland
Montgomery County Arts & Cultural District, Carillon Historical Park, and Dayton Art Institute in Dayton
- Pennsylvania:
Allegheny Highlands Regional Theatre in Ebensburg
ArtsQuest and PBS 39's SteelStax Community Project in Bethlehem
Cumberland Valley School of Music in Chambersburg
Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance in Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Council on the Arts in Harrisburg
Pittsburgh Cultural Trust and Pittsburgh Filmmakers in Pittsburgh
Reading Symphony in Reading
Scranton Cultural Center at the Masonic Temple and Lackawana Regional Cultural Council in Scranton
State Theatre Center for the Arts in Easton
Strand-Capitol Performing Arts Center in York
- Puerto Rico:
Ballet Concierto de Puerto Rico in San Juan
- Tennessee:
Allied Arts of Greater Chattanooga
Memphis Arts Council
Metro Nashville Arts Commission
National Storytelling Association in Jonesborough
Tennessee Arts Commission
- Texas:
Arts Council of Fort Worth and Tarrant County
Cultural Arts Council of Houston/Harris County in Houston
Irving Arts Center in Irving
Texas A&M University in College Station
Texarkana Regional Arts & Humanities Council in Texarkana
Zachary Scott Theatre Center and Center for Women+Their Work in Austin
- Utah:
Utah Arts Council and Western Folklife Center in Salt Lake City
- Vermont:
Flynn Center for the Performing Arts in Burlington
- Virginia:
American String Teachers Association with National School Orchestra Association in Fairfax
Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts in Vienna
- Washington, DC:
Americans for the Arts, Association of Performing Arts Presenters, National Assembly of State Arts Agencies, and National Endowment for the Arts
- West Virginia:
Carnegie Hall in Lewisburg
Clay Center for the Arts & Sciences of West Virginia in Charleston
- Wisconsin:
Charles A. Wustum Museum of Fine Arts in Racine
Fox Cities Performing Arts Center in Appleton
Grand Theater/ArtsBlock project in Wausau
Kohler Arts Center in Kohler
Other work experience:
- Financial Consultant of the National Endowment for the Arts' 1988-89 and 1989-90 Advancement Programs, augmenting $1,100,000 and $1,200,000, respectively, in federal funds with contributions: 1) $575,000 in computer systems, cash, software, installation, service, and support jointly from IBM Corporation (IBM's largest computer gift to the arts) and NYNEX Corporation (NYNEX Business System's first in kind gift), and 2) $26,000 for workshops from Philip Morris, Chevron USA, Citicorp, and AT &T Foundation.
- Designed, organized, implemented, and documented 6 conferences (in Washington, DC, NYC, and San Francisco) for the NEA 1988-89 and 1989-90 Advancement Programs.
- Chief facilitator of the national symposium on ''Arts Education Assessment: Student Performance and Learning Outcomes,'' for the American Council for the Arts (now Americans for the Arts) in 1992.
Prior to 1987:
- In NYC: Vice President, First National Bank of Chicago 1984-1988 and Vice President, Citibank, N.A. 1982-1984 handling corporate accounts
- In NYC: Assistant Vice President, North Carolina National Bank (now Bank of America) 1977-1982 handling corporate/international accounts
- Administrative Director, Earlham College Japan Study Program 1969-1971
Publications with Halsey North:
- Chapter on fundraising for Fundamentals of Arts
Management and a Fundraising Online Course offered through the Arts Extension Service of the University of Massachusetts Amherst, 1987 and revised 1994
- With Joe Earle, Curator and Chair, Art of Asia, Oceania, & Africa, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (now Vice President of Japan Society and Director of the Japan Society Gallery), CONTEMPORARY
CLAY: Japanese Ceramics for the New Century (MFA Publications, 2005), the catalogue for the exhibition on view October 7, 2005, to July 9, 2006, at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
- With Joe Earle, CONTEMPORARY CLAY: Japanese Ceramics
for the New Century (Japan Society, Inc., 2006), the catalogue for the exhibition on view September 29, 2006, to January 21, 2007, at the Japan Society Gallery, New York, NY
Other publications:
- ''State Support for Presenters,'' Chapter 1 of Presenting,
Touring and the State Arts Agencies, National Assembly of State Arts Agencies 1992
- Serving the Arts in Rural Areas: Successful Programs
and Potential New Strategies (edited), National Assembly of State Arts Agencies and National Assembly of Local Arts Agencies 1991
- A Portrait of the Financial Condition of Presenting
Organizations in the United States (co-edited), Association of Performing Arts Presenters 1987
- Statistics for Management (edited), Richard I. Levin, Prentice Hall 1978
Volunteer experience:
- 1991-1996 board member, co-chair of a successful fundraising event in 1994, and volunteer since 2002 for the Alliance of New York State Arts Organizations (now NYS Arts)
Additional Japan Experience with Halsey North:
- Created and organized the New York Japan Society/North Group tours to Japan focusing on contemporary Japanese ceramics in 1989, 1991, 1994, 1995, and 1999 and North Group tours in 2004, 2005, and 2007
- Lectured on contemporary Japanese ceramics at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston in 2003, 2005, 2006; the New York Japan Society in 2006; and at New York University in 2003
- Lectured on traveling in Japan at the New York Japan Society in 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, and 1998.
Education:
- MBA in finance and international business, University of North
Carolina-Chapel Hill 1977
- MA in United States History, University of North Carolina-
Greensboro 1973
- BA in East Asian History and Japanese Language from Earlham
College, Richmond, IN, 1969, with a junior year at Waseda University, Tokyo,
Japan
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