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Equity
What Does a Truly Equitable Recruiting Process Look Like?
Same Storm, Different Boats
Rethinking Our Human Resources Practices to Build a More Equitable Museum
Descendants of Enslaved Persons at James Madison’s Montpelier to Have ‘Structural Parity’ in Unprecedented Board Restructuring
In a first-ever milestone for museums and historic sites that are former places of enslavement, The Montpelier Foundation (TMF) board of directors voted Wednesday, based on a proposal …
How museums can ethically invest their money
The top 45 museums in the US hold endowments of more than $40bn in aggregate. Unfortunately, [most] museums are invested in the very same types of companies—tobacco, weapons …
Investing for Values and Mission
The Four Principles of Purpose-Driven Board Leadership
In the face of increasingly pressing systemic inequities, nonprofit boards must change the traditional ways they have worked and instead prioritize an organization's purpose, show …
Reckoning with a Reckoning: How Cultural Institutions Can Advance Equity
As museums are increasingly outed by the communities they aim to serve about what art is presented, by whom and for what audiences, the onus for challenging the inherent structural …
New TrendsWatch! Navigating a Disrupted Future
How Two Artists’ Transformation of a Portland Museum May Provide a Blueprint for Larger Institutions
Washington County Museum in Portland, Oregon brought itself back from the brink of failure through decolonizing its practices and reinventing itself as the Five …
My Primary School is in a Museum—US Pandemic Edition
“Decolonizing is Literally Unsettling”: Repatriation of Nonprofit Land and Assets