History of the Awards

by Samanatha MacDonald, Director of Training Since 2012, the Rozsa Foundation has been uplifting arts managers and leaders through various training interventions. One such intervention, originally titled Rozsa Arts Management Program (RAMP), now Rozsa Foundations of Arts Leadership, has seen well over 300 graduates in its fourteen years. Recently, we had the opportunity to undertake a data project that looked at participant program evaluations for RAMP from 2013 to 2025 – the

The Importance of Arts Day on the Hill Earlier this month, the Rozsa Foundation participated in Arts Day on the Hill , the Canadian Arts Coalition’s flagship federal advocacy event in Ottawa. As a steering committee member, the Rozsa Foundation is committed to federal arts advocacy through the Canadian Arts Coalition, a collaborative non-partisan movement of national associations, arts organizations, and artists. Twenty years after the very first Arts Day, arts leaders from a

by Lisa Mackay After a year of research, interviews, and community consultation, the Rozsa Foundation recently launched our latest professional development training program: Rozsa Horizons of Arts Leadership . This program is new to the community, so I asked Rozsa's Director of Training, Samantha MacDonald, to describe it in detail for our readers. Below is a short interview to explore the program and its underlying philosophy. Understanding Rozsa Horizons of Arts Leadership

by Jennifer DeDominicis, Organizational Strategy Advisor Core to the Future Focus Program’s ethos is supporting learning to facilitate a shift or change that organizations hope to undertake. When you apply, there’s an entire section of the application about learning and outcomes. But here’s the rub – learning, especially learning as it relates to change, doesn’t necessarily happen in straight or predictably sequential lines. In this way, learning towards a desired outcome in