Pillar 5: Adaptability
Goal
To create an adaptive institution that thrives for the next half century, rooted in the protected natural beauty of Outer Cape Cod.
Objectives
5.1 Prioritize unrestricted, multi-year contributed revenue to support FAWC’s mission and institutional priorities with a budget that reflects the true costs of our work
5.2 Continue to build investment, operating, and building reserve funds
5.3 Have our portfolio investments align with our values
5.4 Invest in an adaptive, well-trained, and appropriately-sized staff that is connected to peers in the field
5.5 Develop a plan to pay staff market rate compensation and benefits; conduct transparent hiring practices and annual evaluation
5.6 Conduct regular evaluations of organizational policies and practices to ensure they are transparent, equitable, and developed with a spirit of generosity
5.7 Minimize the effect of our facilities and operations on the ecology of the Outer Cape natural environment
5.8 Invest in the sustainability and resilience of our historic artist living and work spaces through capital investments that ensure appropriate care, management, and upkeep
5.9 Apply values-based decision making methods for choices regarding furnishings and equipment
5.10 Plan for potential service interruptions, natural disasters, and emergencies that may affect our finances, facilities, or reputation or which may compromise our ability to fulfill our mission
Progress
The Fine Arts Work Center has always recognized the importance of minimizing the environmental footprint of our facilities, which is why we are so proud to share that we have been awarded a Scoping and Technical Assistance grant from the Frankenthaler Climate Initiative.
This grant has allowed us to work with an environmental engineer from New Ecology to assess two of our artist live-work spaces, the Euler Building at 4 Brewster Street and the Barn on Pearl Street (where Helen Frankenthaler and Robert Motherwell worked). New Ecology’s recent evaluation provides a roadmap for the Euler Building to achieve net zero energy use. There is much work to be done in the coming years to accomplish this, and we look forward to keeping you updated on our progress. As we continue to adapt our live-work spaces to be more environmentally sustainable, grant awards such as this one inspire us to imagine innovative long-term possibilities.
