NPM 2.0 FOCUSES ON OUR FUTURE
In July 2019, NPM leadership launched the NPM 2.0 initiative, proposing a vision for our future to association membership. Te launch occurred at the summer convention in Raleigh and was streamed live to our members in the United States and throughout the world.
Over the last several months, the Board of Directors has been thrilled to receive so much feedback via “talk sessions” in Raleigh and online, via email, and other means. Our members are clearly engaged in shaping our future, which bodes well for NPM’s long-term success.
Following the launch and proposal of key elements, the Board is now committed to an 18-month planning process to bring NPM 2.0 into being. A Core Team and Implementation Teams have been formed to guide this process over the next few years. An organizational design consultant has been hired to animate and coach NPM leadership through this strategic initiative.
Te Process
Te process to unfold over the next few years has four phases: Assessment, Design, Implementation, and Evaluation. Te Assessment phase has already been completed, using data from recent membership surveys and the national survey of parish music ministry, completed last winter by nearly 3,000 parishes across every diocese in the United States. [See a summary of the survey results on page 10.)
Te Areas of Focus Te focus areas for NPM 2.0 are Structure & Governance, Membership, and Programming & Communications.
For us to thrive in the future, NPM 2.0 needs an organizational structure to support a 21st century membership association and governance that is both
“We must discover ways for existing chapters to continue in health and for new chapters to be planted”
responsible and representative. NPM will continue to be non-profit, diverse, Catholic, and led by members. Our existing structure, governing documents, and modes of leadership, however, must be re-considered.
Continuing high levels of service to, and engagement among, our membership is a hallmark of NPM 2.0. NPM is a national network of local chapters, united in mission. We must discover ways for existing chapters to continue in health and for new chapters to be planted, until every single Catholic diocese in the United States has an NPM chapter for its music ministry leaders.
Te most significant benefit members derive from NPM nationally is our exceptional programs and communications media. Our programming— conventions, institutes, online offerings, podcasts, our annual Colloquium, and more—is offered to pastoral musicians at various levels of skill.
We are continuing to build upon the great strides we’ve made in communications over the past few years. Using various media—print, digital, social—we are expanding how we keep members informed and engaged in our mission and program opportunities.
To help us sustain our mission of “fostering the art of musical liturgy,” the Board of Directors has articulated the following goal to be accomplished:
“Te Catholic Church in the United States sings the praise of God through divinely inspired musical worship.”
NPM’s goal is to see every parish in the United States singing the praise of God through musical liturgy every Sunday, led by well-formed music ministers. Bringing that to fruition is what NPM 2.0 is all about.
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