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Mr. Craig Dreeszen
Dreeszen & Associates
33 Bardwell Street
Florence, MA 01062-1305
Phone: 413-585-8474 Fax: 413-585-8534
Email: dreeszen@attbi.com

EXPERTISE:
Craig Dreeszen is a teacher, author, and consultant. He provides strategic planning and policy formulation, program evaluation, training, organizational development, and meeting facilitation solutions for nonprofit organizations, foundations, and public agencies.
- Strategic Planning- built capacity for 45 nonprofits and public agencies through strategic planning.
- Organizational Development- offer procedural and structural solutions for nonprofit organizations
- Program Evaluation- evaluated 16 major programs and partnerships
- Community Cultural Planning- author, national authority, and planning consultant
- Collaborative Planning- innovated the Learning Partnerships planning conference and workbook
- Professional Continuing Education- designed 10 courses and workshops and supervised national educational services for 15 years
- Distance Education Design- developed 5 online university courses and 3 workshops
- Policy Formulation- advise federal and state agencies on policies including community arts development, professional development, arts education and cultural planning.
- Conference/Meeting Planning, Facilitation and Proceedings - for NEA, VSA arts, state agencies

QUALIFICATIONS/EXPERIENCE:
- Principal & Lead Consultant, Dreeszen & Associates, 1980-present. Provide planning, community cultural planning, program evaluation and facilitation services nationally.
- Director, The Arts Extension Service, University of Massacusetts Amherst, 1990-1998. Directed te national nonprofit arts service, publishing, and professional education organization.
- Have worked on strategic planning projects with numerous state arts agencies and a variety of arts and cultural organizations throughout the United States.

EDUCATION & SPECIALIZED TRAINING:
- Doctor of Philosophy, Regional Planning 1994. U. of Massachusetts, Amherst, Dept. of Regional Planning. Conducted the first national study of the impact of community cultural planning.
- Master of Education, Organizational Development, 1990 U. of Massachusetts, Amherst, School of Education.
- Created the national Peer Advising Training Program serving 24 states.

RECENT & REPRESENTATIVE CONSULTING WORK:
- 2002: Cleawater Arts! Foundation, a local arts agency in Clearwater, FL. Conducted a community-wide cultural plan, engaging 1,000 citizens in the process of defining a vision, long-range goals and objectives for the community's cultural development.
- 2002: Mississippi Arts Commission, a statewide arts agency. 5-year strategic plan with extensive constituent assessments.
- 2002: Americans for the Arts, national arts service & advocacy organization in Washington DC. Wrote proceedings on the conference "Building Creative Economies: the arts entrepreneurship and sustainable development in Appalachia."
- 2002: National Assembly of State Arts Agencies, the national service organization for state arts agencies, Washington DC. Evaluated a national professional development program for arts education managers at state arts agencies.
- 2001-2002: Real Art Ways, Hartford CT. Facilitated strategic planning as part of facility expansion and audience development initiative for this contemporary arts center.
- 2002: Family Diversity Project, an organization that produces & distributes photo and text exhibits and books to raise awareness of diversity in families in Amherst, MA. Facilitated organizational development to help the organization make a successful transition from founder-driven to professional managed nonprofit organization.
- 2002 Strategic Planning Projects: Mississippi Arts Commission, Vermont Arts Council, Real Art Ways, Artspace (New Haven, CT).

FEE:
$700 - $1000 /day

The Alliance of New York State Arts Organizations has a 29-year history as New York s service association for community based arts and cultural organizations. The Alliance provides leadership and vision, and delivers services, resources and tools that strengthen cultural organizations. The Alliance informs the field on statewide and national issues affecting the arts and assists local arts agencies in building community support.

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