Wednesday, January 9, 2008  January 09, 2008  Happy New Year to
you all!  Hello everybody.   This year I intend to do a lot more
in-depth, one-on-one interviews with leaders both in and out of
the arts & culture sector on issues I hope will be of wide
interest to the people in our field. I welcome suggestions for
both topics and inteview candidates. I hope to convene the
HESSENIUS Group once or twice on major topics that resonate with
arts administrators and I have a couple of surprises in store. I
very much appreciate your feedback and emails, as I endeavor to
make this blog relevant, useful and interesting to you.   As
most of you know, I have spent considerable time trying to
understand and address the generational succession issue as it
relates to the nonprofit arts spectrum - from how we will
succeed at recruiting, training and keeping new leadership for
our organizations, to how we can build younger audiences and
cultivate new donors and supporters.  At one of the meetings
that was an outgrowth last yea