ABOUT
Richard Aldag
Founder and Principal
Richard Aldag holds a Ph.D. in Music from the City University of New York. Aldag has served as Executive Director of the Napa Valley Symphony; Executive Director of Lincoln Theater Napa Valley; Executive Director of the San Francisco Chamber
Orchestra, Executive Director of Los Lupeños de San José
and Director of the Silicon Valley Youth Conservatory at San José State University. From 2000-2006, Aldag served as a Senior Development Manager for Nancy E. Quinn Associates a San Francisco-based fundraising and arts management consulting firm.
With more than three decades of experience as arts administrator and arts management consultant, Richard Aldag has raised over $10 million for organizations and personal projects, has managed organizations with budgets over $5 million, and has developed and implemented strategic business plans for arts companies of varying sizes.
Aldag is proud to announce the opening of a new comprehensive service for Bay Area arts organizations: Aldag Arts Consultants (AAC), which is now available to assist arts organizations of all sizes in areas that include:
Development Planning
Grantwriting/Grant Management
Strategic Planning
Organizational Development Consultation
Board Development Consultation
Classical Music Public Relations
Young/New Executive Leadership Mentorship
Project Management/Concert Production
Theater Management Consultation
Aldag Arts Consultants can free time up for over-loaded executive directors and development directors, or provide seasoned management experience to new and/or small arts organizations, allowing artists to focus their efforts on the development of the artistic product.
In addition to the services listed above, Aldag Arts Consultants has a roster of consultants available to
provide services in:
Bookkeeping
Graphic Design/Production of Print Materials
Web Design/Management
Public Relations
Event Planning
Between 2005 and 2007, RIchard Aldag was our organization's "grants virtuoso." Beginning with us at a time when we had limited in-house staff (2 FTEs and no development professionals), he served as a consultant, focusing on researching and securing grant funding and taking care of the reporting requirements for our ongoing support.
The results were phenomenal. He was the key player in our successful efforts to raise more than $2 million in foundation and government support for our successful $13.5 million capital campaign, and to double our annual grant funding to a six figure level. We got rave reviews from our funders for the reports he prepared, and when we began to build our own development department he worked seamlessly with our new staff people, ensuring the continuing growth and professionalization of the efforts he put into motion.
I would look forward to working with Richard in any circumstance.
Steve Baker
Executive Director 1991 – 2013
Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse
Aldag Arts Consultants has successfully secured support for a variety of organizations from grantmakers that include:
National Grantmakers
National Endowment for the Arts
National Endowment for the Humanities
U.S. Department of Education
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Bloomberg Philanthropies
Kresge Foundation
Knight Foundation
Bank of America Foundation
Wells Fargo Foundation
Charles Schwab Foundation
Rudolf Nureyev Foundation
National Dance Project
MAP Fund
USArtists International
Aaron Copland Fund for Music
Koussevitzky Music Foundation
Fromm Music Foundation
Chamber Music America
French-American Fund for Contemporary Music
Barlow Endowment for Music Composition
New Music USA
Surdna Foundation
APAP Travel Grants
BMI Foundation
California Grantmakers
California Arts Council
James Irvine Foundation
Annenberg Foundation
Clarence E. Heller Charitable Foundation
Center for Cultural Innovation
Carl Franc Buck Foundation
Westaf Tourwest Grants
Bay Area Grantmakers
San Francisco Grants for the Arts
San Francisco Arts Commission
City of Oakland Cultural Funding Program
San José Office of Cultural Affairs
Berkeley Civic Arts Grants
Contra Costa Arts & Culture Commission
San Francisco Foundation
East Bay Community Foundation
Silicon Valley Community Foundation
Marin Community Foundation
Napa County Arts Grants
Community Foundation Sonoma County
William & Flora Hewlett Foundation
Walter & Elise Haas Fund
Creative Work Fund
David & Lucile Packard Foundation
Ann & Gordon Getty Foundation
May & Stanley Smith Charitable Trust
Bernard Osher Foundation
Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation
Dean & Margaret Lesher Foundation
Kenneth Rainin Foundation
11 th Hour Project
Fleishhacker Foundation
Stanley S. Langendorf Foundation
Phyllis C. Wattis Foundation
Mervyn L. Brenner Foundation
Zellerbach Family Foundation
Rock Foundation
Joseph McMicking Foundation
Bill Graham Memorial Foundation
Stella Gross Charitable
Arts for Oakland Kids
In Dulce Jubilo