This delightful interview with Julie Leven, violinist, art activist, social entrepreneur and founder of Shelter Music Boston is a refreshing reminder about beauty in service and leaning into your organization’s strengths—especially when resources are limited.

Helpful takeaways from today’s episode include:

• How to really respect, listen to, and incorporate your constituents’ feedback
• Checking your ego at the door for the sake of your organization’s success
• Is the Board construct still the right fit for today’s nonprofits?
• Separating rigorous expectations from ruthless leadership
• Creative and useful tools for measuring program success
• Why tell potential funders what you do, when you can just show them?

Listen now and share your thoughts!

Connect with Julie

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Voice of Hope Artistic Project

Shelter Music Boston Website

Shelter Music Boston YouTube Channel

Shelter Music Boston Instagram

About Julie

As Founder, Executive and Artistic Director of Shelter Music Boston, I oversaw all components of this social service agency which employs professional musicians to deliver regularly scheduled classical music concerts in homeless shelters and other sheltering environments in Greater Boston.

I believe that it is the responsibility of 21st century citizen artists to provide access to the arts to all people, whether or not they have a home. Every concert delivered by Shelter Music Boston transforms individual audience members from desperation to dignity with live classical music.

Currently I consult to organizations working to create social change with high quality artistic and musical programming, including: A Musical Heart in Washington DC, Musik på Trappen (Music on the Stairs) in Copenhagen, Denmark, The Philharmonia Baroque Education Program, in the Bay Area CA, and others.