Project SUCCESS
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Headquarters Location: Minneapolis, MN
Founded: 1994
Mission: Project SUCCESS is a youth-development organization that works with students over a seven-year period, from middle school through high school, to help them develop life-skills that can transform their lives. Through in-school goal-setting workshops, theater experiences, and special programming/services, students learn to make informed choices and plan for meaningful futures.
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minnesota, access to art and culture, theatre, art education, family, youth development, support, youth arts, 2012
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Leadership
Adrienne Diercks.
Adrienne Diercks is the founder and Executive Director of Project SUCCESS. Project SUCCESS is a youth-development organization that works with students over a seven-year period, from middle school through high school, to help them develop life skills that can transform their lives. As a result of her passion of helping young people achieve their dreams, she began Project SUCCESS in…
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Financial Data
Overhead Ratio:
31.80%
Total Revenue:
$1,322,049
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Contact Info
Website:
E-Mail:
info AT projectsuccess.org
Phone:
(612) 874-1777
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Address:
One Groveland Terrace, Suite 300
Minneapolis, MN 55403, USA
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Story:
Project SUCCESS's Theater Experience program makes a difference! These events have proven to be wonderful bonding experiences for young people and their family members as well as powerful audience-building tools for the theater partners. Through Project SUCCESS, students and their families attend diverse theater performances together, enriching their shared family experiences and increasing opportunities for interactions, which can lead to more positive family relationships and greater home support for youth— shown to have a positive impact on student achievement.
Project SUCCESS uses the Theater Experiences to: act as a springboard for discussion in classroom workshops and at home; bring students and their families together for a shared experience; increase family involvement in students’ lives — shown to have a positive impact on student achievement; foster the appreciation of cultural diversity through theater; encourage a deeper understanding of the powerful impact theater can have on people's lives; expand, diversify and strengthen local theater audiences through on-going and meaningful relationships with families; and demonstrate to students that they are members of a larger community.
Expert Reviews of Project SUCCESS
Evidence of Impact Summary:
Project SUCCESS works with middle and high school students to help them realize their potential. The program focuses on goal-setting for young people and uses the arts as a tool in that work. They offer free tickets to live theater productions not only for the students, but for their families as well. Through this work, young people who may otherwise not have been exposed to the theatre are gaining access to the arts.See expert comments.
Organization Strengths Summary:
Project SUCCESS has the passion and support of the entire organization behind it. The dedicated staff, visionary Executive Director, and strong Board of Directors are all committed to fulfilling the organization's mission. Their work of introducing under-represented youth to the arts is an asset as well. Strength is that Project SUCCESS is established and consistent without being stagnant.See expert comments.
Areas for Improvement Summary:
Experts would like to see Project SUCCESS expand their programming to work in a greater number of schools. They may also benefit from taking a closer look at their processes around providing free tickets. One expert pointed out that there are times when the tickets go undistributed or unused. Another expert suggested that Project SUCCESS consider offering some financial assistance to the nonprofit venues that donate the tickets. The organization could also improve by better balancing their work in the field with their administrative responsibilities.See expert comments.
Expert Comments: Evidence of Impact
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Project SUCCESS is increasing student learning though access to the arts. | ||
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Project SUCCESS works with students in schools, offering them a variety of opportunities to engage in the arts and appreciate how the arts can impact their lives. | ||
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Last year, they delivered 3,510 goal-setting workshops to more than 10,500 young people in 15 Minneapolis and Saint Paul middle and high schools. 90% of participating students report taking a positive step toward achieving their goals. They also facilitated 20,000 students and their families to attend 205 evening and weekend performances at professional theaters in Twin Cities. | ||
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Project SUCCESS provides many students free tickets to a wide variety of live performances throughout the year at the theater where I work. | ||
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I see their impact as the broad spectrum of students and families served, and the arts organizations involved. | ||
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They work with youth to realize their potential. Taking students and their families to the arts, is an important strategy to their program. They even provide transportation. | ||
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They have sent an incredible number of high school kids to see local theater at no cost. Moreover, perhaps more importantly, they have allowed the kids' families to attend as well. This makes seeing arts into a shared experience and increases the odds that the family will see more on their own. | ||
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I always see groups of people from Project SUCCESS at theatres around town. I love that they are bringing folks who might not otherwise go to the theatre! | ||
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My children attend Minneapolis schools where Project SUCCESS delivers services, and I can report first hand that there are MANY Minneapolis families who attend ballets and taiko drumming and plays at the Guthrie, which they would never have been able to afford without free tickets from Project SUCCESS. Their work at Marcy Open School with the school's annual musical has been transformative, allowing parents who used to spend countless hours producing that musical to pursue other activities that benefit the school and its students. | ||
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I see their strengths as their visionary leadership, strong board, and important community partnerships. | ||
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Project SUCCESS also provides a guest services staff person during the performances for whom they provides tickets. | ||
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The organization and leadership of Project SUCCESS have indeed made it successful. They introduce the arts to populations that cannot afford to attend events and often open their eyes to events that they would normally not consider attending. | ||
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The organization has strong staff leadership in their Executive Director, Adrienne Diercks, and great staff such as Paige Ware. They also have really strong relationships with the students. | ||
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The staff is highly qualified, passionate and experienced. They are dedicated to kids and their futures and they show results. They also have a strong and dedicated Board of Directors and are very successful at raising funds for their programs. | ||
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They have a strong staff and organizational structure. | ||
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They have strong, solid leadership from the founder, and they have great consistency of service. Also, they are established and reliable without being staid and hidebound. | ||
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They seem very clear on their mission and the staff is really committed. Also, they are organized in a way that makes what they do possible, and makes it easy to coordinate with other organizations. | ||
Expert Comments: Areas for Improvement
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Expand Programming |
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I would like to see them expand to serve more schools. | ||
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They could be improved by the expansion of services to more schools in the Twin Cities and Minneapolis areas. Also, sometimes they are on site so much that they do not respond to communications as promptly as possible. | ||
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I would like to see them just doing more of what they are doing now. | ||
Improve Ticket Processes |
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It would be nice if Project SUCCESS could consider offering financial consideration to those nonprofits for which the organization provides free tickets. | ||
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There have been times where theatre tickets have not been used and not released. | ||
Leadership
Adrienne Diercks
Executive Director
Executive Director
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