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Museums as Economic Engines: Infographics Released!
While the Museums as Economic Engines – Full Report gives you all the detail you’ll need to understand the facts of museums’ economic contributions, sometimes you’ll …
Don’t Raid the Cookie Jar: Creating Early Interventions to Prevent Deaccessioning Crises
This paper summarizes the ideas and recommendations generated at “Don’t Raid the Cookie Jar: Creating Early Interventions to Prevent Deaccessioning Crises,” a convening …
Museums and Public Opinion
The news for museums is excellent. National public opinion polling shows that Americans overwhelmingly appreciate and recognize the work of museums as educational and economic assets to …
Museum Board Leadership 2017
View the second iteration (2024) of the Museum Board Leadership report. Good governance is essential to the work of museum trustees and directors, providing the very foundation for the …
Building the Future of Education
The Building the Future of Education report summarizes the content and shares ideas coming out of a convening organized in September, 2013 by the Alliance and The Henry Ford. Essays by …
Stand for Your Mission
Every nonprofit has its own unique history, culture, and mission, and, therefore, its own view regarding advocacy. But, no matter where you are on the continuum—from doing no advocacy to …
Building the Future of Education
In September 2013, over four dozen educational policy experts, practitioners, funders, education innovators, reformers, student activists and others shaping the conversation about U.S. …
TrendsWatch 2013: Back to the Future
TrendsWatch 2013 highlights six trends that CFM’s staff and advisors believe are highly significant to museums and their communities, based on our scanning and analysis over the past year. …
Exploring the Educational Future
This article by CFM director Elizabeth Merritt includes a short scenario of the future titled “A Learning Day 2037” that dramatizes one potential future of learning through the story of …
TrendsWatch 2012: Museums and the Pulse of the Future
TrendsWatch 2012 highlights seven trends that CFM’s staff and advisors believe are highly significant to museums and their communities, based on our scanning and analysis over the past …
On the Horizon: Building the Future of Education
On the Horizon: Building the Future of Education (PDF, 9 pages). This paper, co-authored by CFM director Elizabeth Merritt and Scott Kratz, vice president for education at the National …
Tomorrow in the Golden State A Guide for Forecasting and Planning Museums and the Future of California
This guide builds on the results of a working session, “Forecasting the Future of California Museums,” held in Los Angeles on May 25, 2010 at the annual meeting of the American Alliance of …