Strategic Plan for Soundstreams RFP

Summary

Soundstreams, a Toronto-based contemporary music arts organization, invites qualified individuals or firms to submit proposals for the development of a five-year comprehensive strategic plan. In moving out of the pandemic Soundstreams is looking to reinvigorate its audiences and is preparing for Executive Leadership change. We would like to identify the overarching vision as defined by staff, board and stakeholders for the organization and have a clear path as to how to get there. The selected consultant will work closely with Soundstreams’ leadership, including Executive Director Beth Brown with the strategic planning process to begin in or around July 2024.

Established in 1982, Soundstreams is a non-profit organization dedicated to strengthening public engagement in Canada and elsewhere with new Canadian music through commissioning, developing, producing, and disseminating those works. Our stages are home to diverse identities and perspectives, and we’re committed to innovative programming that explores significant themes that resonate across our communities. Our aim is to inspire, foster, and enable excellence in Canadian music to the highest international standards. By offering fresh opportunities to an ever-greater diversity of artists both established and emerging, we embrace these new and diverse creative voices.

Soundstreams is led by Founding Artistic Director Lawrence Cherney and Executive Director Beth Brown. For further details about Soundstreams, please visit our website: https://soundstreams.ca/.

The strategic planning process will encompass:
• Research phase about Soundstreams through interviews that would include various stakeholders as well as a technical examination of Soundstreams.
• A full review of Soundstreams’ environment, observing trends and common practices within the performing arts environment.
• Development of a refreshed mission, vision, and values.
• Development of strategic priorities and the creation of an action plan.