A new paradigm for running youth orchestras is needed in order to reduce redundancy, increase efficiency, deal with reduced budgets in many music programs, and create a sustainable infrastructure for the creation of youth orchestras. Large metropolitan areas often have exemplary youth orchestra systems, but smaller cities and underserved areas may not have the resources like a full time staff, business processes, communications technology, and available sheet music to maintain a youth orchestra even though the area could artistically sustain one. Using knowledge from current business, nonprofit, and music education research, this document proposes an innovative approach to systematically organize and administrate youth orchestras by combining the best practices of various fields in order to tackle some of the biggest challenges to youth orchestras today. Youth Educational Symphonies (YES!) is a nonprofit franchise business model for establishing and maintaining youth orchestras. Nonprofit franchising, commonly referred to as "social franchising" in the social services sector, is a burgeoning area of entrepreneurship designed to target needs by using repeatable processes. A youth orchestra or entrepreneurial conductor will be able to "plug into" the YES! franchise to administrate the billing, accounting, payroll, publicity materials, communications, ticketing, business infrastructure, music library, string bowings, and Orchestra Manager training. By joining the YES! organization, member youth orchestras will acquire a business infrastructure specializing in the area of youth orchestras. The business systems and opportunities offered with YES! membership also include: website design and hosting, recruiting materials, an operations manual, a lending library of youth orchestra repertoire, new music written for youth orchestra, student scholarships, instrument and equipment outsourcing, consulting and training, and an organization-wide annual summer symphony festival called SForzando. This franchise model for the Youth Educational Symphonies attempts to provide the business-side infrastructure needed for an entrepreneurial conductor or a group of qualified music teachers to start up or maintain a youth orchestra in their community quickly, effectively, and sustainably. / A Dissertation submitted to the College of Music in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. / Spring Semester 2017. / March 27, 2017. / Arts Administration, Business Design, Entrepreneurship, Nonprofit Management, Social Franchising, Youth Orchestra / Includes bibliographical references. / Alexander Jiménez, Professor Co-Directing Dissertation; Clifford Madsen, Professor Co-Directing Dissertation; Paul Ebbers, University Representative; Kasia Bugaj, Committee Member.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_510623 |
| Contributors | Friedman, Rachel Grubb (authoraut), Jiménez, Alexander, 1963- (professor co-directing dissertation), Madsen, Clifford K. (professor co-directing dissertation), Ebbers, Paul D. (university representative), Bugaj, Kasia (committee member), Florida State University (degree granting institution), College of Music (degree granting college) |
| Publisher | Florida State University, Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English, English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text, text, doctoral thesis |
| Format | 1 online resource (160 pages), computer, application/pdf |
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