This month we continue the story of my organization's 30 million dollar historic theatre restoration project. Over two podcasts I interview some key board members that were part of an organizational transformation that lead the Academy Center of the Arts out of a period of austerity, negativity, and debt and into an era that would see a completed theatre restoration project, a quadrupling of our operating budget, and ultimately emerge debt free. In Part 2 (February 2023), we will speak with three former Academy board members. George Zippel ( former CEO of Genworth Financial and former board member), Rob Tayler (retired owner of Taylor Brothers Inc. and former Chair of the Construction Committee), and John Fees (retired Executive Chairman of BWXT and former board member/fundraiser/construction committee member). These former board member discuss how it was possible for a small non-profit organization in a small city to punch above its weight and execute a complex 30 million dollar construction project.