In the report:

• Welcome to TrendsWatch
• The Philanthropic Future: How can museums build a healthy stream of charitable support?
• The Looming Leadership Crisis: How can museums successfully develop the next generation of leaders?
• Securing the Future of the Nonprofit Sector: How can we defend the nonpartisan nature of nonprofit status and empower the public to support our work?
• Short Take: Cultivating Compassion: Examine how museums can foster compassion, which can promote health and well-being, reduce burnout, combat loneliness, foster healthy aging, and reduce prejudice.
• Trend Alert: Museum Insurance and Climate Disruptions: As climate risk disrupts the insurance industry, learn about alternatives to traditional insurance models that can help protect cultural institutions from disaster.
• For Your Radar: Outrage Fatigue and Model Collapse: A brief guide to terms that may be popping up in your news feeds.

The format is designed to be practical and immediately actionable, providing a scaffold for discussions and decision-making by the museum’s staff, board, and stakeholders. Each chapter:

• Introduces the issue
• Suggests critical questions for museums
• Describes the challenge
• Summarizes how society, and museums, are responding
• Presents a framework for action
• Documents examples of museums tackling these issues
• Provides additional resources