OPHELIAS JUMP PRODUCTIONS A CALIFORNIA PUBLIC BENEFIT CORPORAT

Fundraising/Development
Although high in cost/effort, expanding OJP’s fundraising capabilities is the organization’s top priority. Without additional funds, the other initiatives will not be possible. And, although OJP has benefitted from very successful grant writing in 2020/2021, it is critical to establish sustainable processes for raising the funds needed to operate the organization in the long-term. Long term sustainability and stability are key goals.

Programs
Building capacity to increase the scope, reach, and accessibility of our programming is a key priority in fulfilling our mission to make theatre and theatre education available to all including underserved and underrepresented communities and artists.

Operations
If OJP hopes to create effective fundraising and marketing efforts and expand its programming portfolio, staffing is of critical importance. The current amount of work being done by volunteers is not sustainable. At the same time, new legislation has significantly impacted OJP’s budget for staffing, making revenue generation and fundraising more important than ever. Being able to hire necessary human infrastructure to pursue and build on our goals and missions is a key need.

Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
Inclusion is OJP’s core value. A formal commitment to continuous improvement in equity, diversity and inclusion efforts is, therefore, central to OJP’s mission. We need to attract, serve, and be informed by people who reflect the intersectionality that is at the core of our mission.

Board Development
OJP’s Board of Directors is an invaluable source of expertise, experience and enthusiasm for our mission and programs. OJP must grow its board with members who can assist it in reaching its strategic priorities.

Hire, retain, and promote people of various gender identifications.
Offer meaningful leadership opportunities for womyn especially womyn of color and from economically disadvantaged backgrounds.
Maintain a strong, actionable and up to date DEI plan.
Maintain a safe and supportive workplace.
Offer leveling policies that level the playing field and promote equal access to opportunities for people who have suffered from systemic, societal prejudices.
Present programming the bridges cultural differences, questions prejudices, beliefs, and assumptions and invites people to engage in dialogue and to explore new paradigms for a better, more peaceful more equitable future.

We are a BIPOC womyn led organization and draw from lived experience, education and ongoing training and collaboration to continue to find ways to improve and work better within the communities we serve.

We have a strong core of diverse educators with access to at risk and BIPOC youth and training to provide mentorship and on the job learning for emerging and early career artists.

Our senior staff and board have wide experience in analogous and applicable fields such as marketing, civil service, entrepreneurship, and nonprofit administration which helps guide and inform our strategic planning, outreach, and collaboration with community leaders and other organizations.

We have exceeded initial goals set out in our DEI action plan.
We have acquired a larger space to increase our capacity for larger audiences.
We have hired permanent part time staff and begun training and setting up programs to improve our outreach into the community, build awareness of our organization, increase audience base and build capacity to support growth in our educational programs.
We have started and continue work on establishing operating procedures in key areas of our operations so that we can promote accountability, maintain standards, and achieve continuity even when staff changes.
We have created a board development committee that is actively seeking and vetting new board members who meet our identified key needs and board diversity goals.