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Organizational Effectiveness Course (OEC)

The 2003 OEC Class

Representatives from Buffalo City Ballet, Buffalo Philharmonic Chorus (not pictured), Carnegie Art Center, Cheektowaga Community Chorus, The Juneteenth Festival, just buffalo literary center, Neglia Ballet Artists, Neto Hatinakwe Onkwehowe, Polish Arts Club of Buffalo, The Roycrofters At-Large Association, Springville Center for the Arts, Squeaky Wheel, and The Western New York Artists Group.
 
Carrone Crump, Coordinator of the Juneteenth Festival, and Celeste Lawson, Executive Director of the Arts Council in Buffalo & Erie County
 
Heidi Halt and Sergio Neglia of Ballet Artists of WNY are congratulated by Stanton Hudson, President of Hudson & Associates Public Relations, Inc., and Rachel Sparacio, Program Coordinator at the Arts Council in Buffalo & Erie County.
 
Allan Jamieson, Executive Director of Neto Hatinakwe Onkwehowe, receives congratulations from Celeste Lawson, Executive Director of the Arts Council in Buffalo & Erie County, and Lora Vehue of Lora Vehue & Associates.
On Thursday, June 26, 2003, the Arts Council in Buffalo & Erie County presented certificates of completion for the 2003 Organizational Effectiveness Course (OEC) to 13 local arts agencies at The Olmsted Center for the Visually Impaired.  Organizations were chosen by a competitive process to participate in this five-month management training program, which was funded by the Peter C. Cornell Trust, with additional support from the New York State Council on the Arts and the County of Erie.

The course was designed to address the management needs of small and mid-sized nonprofit cultural organizations in the Buffalo Niagara Region.  The following cultural groups participated; Buffalo City Ballet, Buffalo Philharmonic Chorus, Carnegie Art Center, Cheektowaga Community Chorus, The Juneteenth Festival, just buffalo literary center, Neglia Ballet Artists, Neto Hatinakwe Onkwehowe, Polish Arts Club of Buffalo, The Roycrofters At-Large Association, Springville Center for the Arts, Squeaky Wheel, and The Western New York Artists Group.

Celeste Lawson, Executive Director of the Arts Council, had this to say about the graduating organizations, “they are to be congratulated for investing their precious time and energy to make their organization stronger for the future.”

 
 Norine Spurling and Marion Faller of the
 Carnegie Art Center are congratulated by
 Celeste Lawson, Executive Director of the
 Arts Council in Buffalo & Erie County.
 

 Mimo Fried and E. Seth Wochensky of the
 Springville Center for the Arts receive
 an OEC certificate.
 

 Susan Morton, Coordinator of the Roycrofters
 At-Large Association graduates from the
 2003 OEC class.