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Financial Sustainability
Explore dozens of articles, member resources, and On-Demand Programs on financial sustainability in museums.
Wordless Wednesday: WindPunk
Hooked on this weekly (nearly) wordless glimpse of the future? You can find more images, and links to related stories, on the CFM Pinterest Boards. Read more about the BAT floati…
Towards a Green Future: Environment and Resource Sustainability in Museums
One of my stretch goals at CFM is helping to foster “a futurist in every museum.” To that end, I have been pleased to serve as an advisor to the California Association of Museums Leaders of …
Monday Musings: on the Corcoran
Reading the news about the Corcoran Gallery of Art last week made me very happy, if a little puzzled, too.For those of you who haven’t been following the story, a quick recap. The Corcoran …
A Game for (Future) Good: FutureCoast
The first trend CFM tackled, with the help of futurist and games-designer Dr. Jane McGonigal, was the rise of “gaming for good” and the potential for games-design to make museum experiences …
Monday Musings: What Price Nonprofit?
Today’s brief musing was prompted by an article this past Saturday in the New York Times: It May be a Nonprofit Theater, but the Tickets Look For-ProfitIt lists the ways in which …
Revisiting the Borgias
This Throwback Thursday post revisits an issue I touched on back at the beginning of the financial crisis, in 2009: how the decline in traditional funding sources and the increasing …
Monday Musings: The End of the Blockbuster Era
Today’s brief musing was prompted by a story I included in our weekly e-newsletter Dispatches from the Future of Museums last week—a video clip of a panel discussion on the Future of …
Why You Don’t Want To Be Nice
I’ve been using this graphic in talks lately when talking about successful financial models for museums. The point being that if your organization provides experiences or services that are …
Dark Futures: Nonprofit Fragmentation
I wanted to start the year on a positive note, I really did. But I find myself writing about a middle-of-the-night worry, instead.What gave me nightmares? Not a bad dinner, unfortunately, …
The Entrepreneurial Museum: Down on the Farm
I’m collecting examples of entrepreneurial museum projects—mission-related initiatives that contribute to the financial bottom line. Last month I profiled the Spark!Lab National Network, an …
Entrepreneurship in Museums: The Spark!Lab National Network
Entrepreneur, ˌäⁿn-trə-p(r)ə-ˈnər, (n) “a person who starts a business and is willing to risk loss in order to make money.” While “entrepreneurial” as applied to museums has usually focused …
Inspiring a New Generation
Author Neal Stephenson recently launched the Hieroglyph project, to rally writers to reintroduce optimism into science fiction. That is pretty ironic, considering some of the …