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Financial Sustainability
Explore dozens of articles, member resources, and On-Demand Programs on financial sustainability in museums.
The Museum Sacrifice Measure
How much are you willing to give up to work in a museum? How much didyou give up to work in a museum? I’m not talking about quality of life issues like relocating to a new city, having to …
Museum Hack: We Love People Who Don’t Like Museums
The peer-to-peer economy is great at uncovering unmet consumer demand and unused aspects of institutional resources. For this reason, I recently tracked down a young entrepreneur who has …
You Go First
“We’re right on the edge but we need a little push Dancing on the tightrope wearing it thin Instead of closing our eyes and jumping in” –Jessica …
Update on Philanthropy
One of the topics we examined in TrendsWatch 2013 was the “Changing Face of Giving.” Though the economy, and giving overall, continues to rebound, there’s wide agreement that …
Keeping Up with the 2014 Trends: What’s Mine is Yours
This is the third summer update on TrendsWatch 2014: you can catch up recent developments in Social Entrepreneurship and Big Data in previous posts. Overall Arc of the Trend Up, rapidly, …
Wordless Wednesday: A Vision of the Future Unsullied by the Present
#ecotourism #NorthKorea #Utopia Follow the link in the photo caption to find out more. You can find more glimpses of the future (and links to associated articles) on …
Museums in a Dangerous Time
The Alliance has announced that the theme of our 2015 Annual Meeting will be The Social Value of Museums: Inspiring Change. Believing, as I do that Museums Can Change the World (CFM’s …
Wordless Wednesdays: Please Curb Your Whale
Wonder What This Is? #Sustainability #GreenDesign You can find more glimpses of the future (and links to associated articles) on CFM’s Pinterest Bo…
Wordless Wednesday: Thousands of Miles per Gallon
Who has the biggest incentive to save the earth? The kids who will inherit it.. You can find more glimpses of the future at the CFM Pinterest Boards, together with links to accompanyin…
Monday Musing: who’s minding the kids?
This week’s Musing is about an article features in Dispatches from the future of Museums last week: “Gates’ $100M Philanthropic Venture inBloom Dies after Parents Say “No …
Revisiting the Dangers of “Small Good Things”
This past Monday, in my musing, I mentioned Kanu Hawaii–a nonprofit that recruits people to take actions that support “sustainable island living.” They are so good at what …
Monday Musing: Looking to Hawaii for the Distributed Future
Futurist William Gibson observed “the future is already here, it’s just not very evenly distributed.” In CFM’s report “Tomorrow in theGolden State” we looked to California for glimpses of …