For Profit For Good – American Alliance of Museums

Design Briefs: Art Museum as Innovation Incubator

By Elizabeth Merritt

One of the themes explored in Trendswatch 2014 is the rise of social entrepreneurship—the practice of linking profitable business models with socially beneficial outcomes. In the report, I pointed to the New Museum’s incubator space as an …
Labor 3.0: Museums and Co-working Spaces

By Elizabeth Merritt

Finding a stable business model for museums in the 21st century is going to take more than patching the old income streams. The goals and expectations of government funding and philanthropy are changing, and there’s more competition for …
Keeping up with the 2014 Trends: For Profit For Good

By Elizabeth Merritt

It’s been about 6 months since the Alliance released TrendsWatch 2014, so I’m going to blog a round of updates on each of this year’s six trends. In each of these posts I will recap the trend, report on its overall arc in the first half of …
Monday Musing: For Profit for Good & the Challenge of Scale

By Elizabeth Merritt

Last week Forbes featured the company TechChange in an article titled “When and How to Scale: DC Startup at Crossroads.” The piece caught my eye for three reasons: TechChange is an example of the “for profit for …
For Profit for Good: The rise of the social entrepreneurs

By Elizabeth Merritt

For years, well-meaning critics have been telling nonprofits to act more like businesses: to do a better job marketing, to innovate, to develop a strong brand identity. It’s ven been suggested that nonprofits sometimes use their …
Monday Musing: Looking to Hawaii for the Distributed Future

By Elizabeth Merritt

Futurist William Gibson observed “the future is already here, it’s just not very evenly distributed.” In CFM’s report “Tomorrow in theGolden State” we looked to California for glimpses of the unevenly distributed future of demographic …