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Museums and the Living Wage: How Filoli Developed a Bold Pay Equity Initiative
Each year CFM’s TrendsWatch brings attention to bear on critical issues for museums, challenging our sector to think about how we might adapt to a rapidly changing environment. Examining a …
Agents Of Change: How IMPs Can Inspire & Partner With Their Clients
Handout of additional resources Slides from webinar What does it take to mobilize institutions to question their role in society, shift their culture, and better serve their communities? …
IMPs Talk: Strengthening Collaborations
Handout of additional resources Slides from webinar As an IMP, do you feel like it’s you against the world? Are you trying to figure everything out on your own? Are we all going for the …
Nurturing a People-Centered Work Culture
In March 2020, I gave birth to my second child, just two months after becoming the Delaware Art Museum’s Interim Executive Director and days into the COVID-19 lockdown. In those early …
Speak the Truth and Point to Hope: An #AAM2022 Keynote by Sandra Jackson-Dumont
Sandra Jackson-Dumont, Director & CEO of the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, opened the Organizational Culture focus area of the 2022 AAM Annual Meeting & MuseumExpo with her keynote …
Building Salary Equity at the Bakken Museum
Some of the most interesting conversations I had at #AAM2022 were about workplace issues, notably pay equity, and I was heartened to find many people in leadership positions are looking for …
The Unionization of Museums: What Management and Staff Need to Know
Learn the basics of the collective bargaining process, the advantages and disadvantages of unionization, and strategies to manage the various possible outcomes of the voti…
After MoMA Stabbings, Museums Review Their Safety Protocols
The New York Times explores how the attack on visitor services staff at the Museum of Modern Art has brought heightened focus to safety and security at museums, and how some are reviewing …
The Top Ten Alliance Blog Posts of 2021
Though 2021 was a slightly more normal year than 2020, with mostly open museums gradually regaining visitors, the pandemic still loomed large and colored most conversations. On the Alliance …
An Investment in Our Collective Future: Building for Staff Advancement from the Inside Out
With the worst of pandemic disruptions behind us (we hope) some museums are using this as an opportunity to rethink their operations, rather than simply rebounding to the previous norm. …
Digital Migrants and Digital Nomads: Reshaping Museum Communities
Hello, this is Elizabeth. I’m trying to recover from my pandemic writing rut by drafting a short post each week, commenting on the news. (Kind of like the old CFM series “Monday Musing,” …
Ethical Contracting: Is Your Museum Doing It?
The way we work is changing. The growth of the “gig” economy is accelerating in a post-COVID world, as the desirability of freelance work increases for employees seeking flexible schedules …