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Instructor: Bruce Rosen

Course Description
This workshop will demonstrate how writing a business plan can help you organize your growth, and teach key skills for managing an art business. The workshop will start artists and arts organizations on the path of developing a basic business plan to more successfully pursue an art project or venture. The course will include discussion of all the components of a business plan, will address funding considerations and the development of financial projections, and identify what a bank or lending organization is looking for in a business plan. The workshop will also provide information about available small business resources locally and on the web. The session will be highly interactive and encouraging for all artists to ask questions and share knowledge.

 The workshop will cover:
A step-by-step primer on the development of a business plan
Business fundamentals for artists and arts organizations
Financial management in the arts
Financial resources available to finance your art project

Instructor's Bio
Bruce Rosen is the former Program Manager of the Arts Loan Fund at the Center for Nonprofit Management. He has worked with the Center extensively over the past decade including directing the Venture Fund Initiative and the Southern California Social Enterprise Initiative.
The Social Enterprise Initiative provides coordinated services and technical assistance to nonprofit social purpose businesses throughout the region. Bruce also provides business development and management assistance consulting services to nonprofit organizations engaged in earned-income and small business activities.
Bruce has over twenty-five years experience in the financial services industry. He has worked in corporate finance, investment banking, retail sales and institutional money management during his career; including as Vice President of Drexel, Burnham, Lambert Inc., Vice President of Kayne, Anderson Investment Management, and since 1990, as President of Redwood Financial, a registered investment advisory firm.

Bruce also serves on the Board of Directors of several local nonprofit organizations including as Board President of the Westside Food Bank, Board President of Friends of the Vets' Garden at the West Los Angeles Veterans Administration Medical Center and as Treasurer of the Pacific Palisades CROP Hunger Walk.