NEW:
Check Out What's News at the
MANY Blog We're posting your haikus and
Wordles! Read State
Senator Jose M. Serrano's post on deaccessioning.
NEW: Legislative
Update
Uniform Prudent Management of Institutional Funds Act (UPMIFA):
S4778/A7907
This bill has begun moving in the Assembly, where it was
recently reported unanimously from the Corporations Committee
to the Codes Committee. We are hopeful that it will also be
reported from the Codes Committee and pass in the Assembly
early next week. Now is the time to make phone calls and send
email letters of support to the Chair and ranking member of
the Assembly Codes Committee, the Assembly leadership, your
local Assembly representative, and the sponsor, Assemblyman
Jonathan Bing. Read More
Deaccessioning Bill Assemblyman Brodsky's Letter to the Editor of the Albany
Times Union is published June 18th. Read
More
NEW: Get
Creative! And Win a $50 Amazon Gift Card!!*
What inspires you about museums? Email
your submissions by July 31st to be eligible to win one
of two $50 or one of four $25 amazon.com gift cards.
·
create a wordle image about how museums inspire you by going
to www.wordle.netTo
send it to us, you’ll need to take a screen shot of your
creation (instructions are in the FAQ section of wordle.net).
·
make a 1-minute (or less) video about your vision and email it
to us or post it directly on YouTube
·
email us photos of what you think museums do best
How Museums Inspire, a wordle creation by Amanda
Palmer, Director/Curator of the Alice T. Miner Museum, Chazy,
NY
A haiku by David Palmquist, Head, Museum
Chartering, NY State Museum:
The deaccessioned
work of art screams but
no one hears
From Lisa Delmonico, Director of Development,
Mount Vernon Hotel Museum & Garden (NYC):
Museum tagline:
"Washington did not sleep here,
and neither can you."
and don't forget....
·
plan to come to a conversation (see the schedule below)
·
take the member survey (see address below)
NEW:
MANY Updating Strategic Plan
As we work this year to update the MANY strategic plan, we are
asking our members and supporters to help us set the course
for our future. You have two ways to become involved in this
important process:
·
attend one of the following discussions to ask your questions
and offer your insights about advocacy, legislation, standards
and trends affecting your work.
Here’s the schedule so far:
Friday, June 26: Manitoga, Garrison; 10-Noon
Thursday, July 9: Alley Pond
Environmental Center, Douglaston (Nassau County); 1-3 pm
Friday, July 10: Long Island Museum, Stony Brook
(Suffolk County); 10-Noon
NEW:
Useful
Advocacy Materials from the American Library Association
If you're in need of a template to follow to create advocacy
materials for your institution, we recommend that you visit
the American Library Association's website, where you'll find
a wealth of information for making your case for support:
NEW:
MANY
Testifies on Deaccessioning Bill at Senate Cultural Affairs
Meeting MANY
Director Anne Ackerson and Board Vice President Michael
Botwinick were invited to testify at the May 6, 2009 meeting
of the Senate Cultural Affairs Committee meeting, chaired by
Jose Serrano. Adding testimony were the bill's Assembly
sponsor, Richard Brodsky, and Steven Kern, Director of the
Everson Museum in Syracuse. View the YouTube of the meeting.
Read and use MANY's testimony.
NEW:
The PowerPoint and companion audio presentation from MANY's recent webinars on leadership development and transition planning are now available!
EMERGENCY SUCCESSION PLANNING
What if your museum's CEO was suddenly unable to fulfill his or her leadership role? Would senior staff know how to carry on? Has succession planning been discussed at your institution?
Museum consultant Laura Roberts leads a webinar that will take your organization through the planning and development of an emergency succession plan. Designed for CEOs, Board Members and Senior Staff Members, this webinar will help to initiate a dialogue on preparing your museum for an unplanned disruption in leadership.
BUILDING LEADERSHIP THROUGHOUT YOUR ORGANIZATION
Leadership departures mustn't always be abrupt; all CEO's must retire or move onto their next opportunity at some point in their careers.
In this discussion, museum consultant Laura Roberts will focus
on how to create a a plan for developing the leadership talent
on your staff and board and will help you to custom design a
plan for your institution. Designed for CEO's, HR Managers, or
Department Heads and Board chairs.
ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR
Laura Roberts has an active consulting practice, helping cultural nonprofits with strategic planning, assessment and organizational development. She is currently on the faculty of the Museum Studies program at Tufts University, Bank Street College’s Museum Leadership Program and the Seminar in Historical Administration. For eleven years, she was on the faculty of the graduate Public and Nonprofit Program at the Boston University School of Management. For six years, Laura was executive director of the New England Museum Association, and for 14 years she was an educator in history museums. She chairs the Tufts University Art Gallery board of advisors and is treasurer of the board of the Institute for Learning Innovation. She serves on the Succession Planning Task Force of AASLH. Laura holds an M.B.A. in public and nonprofit management from Boston University School of Management, an M.A. in History Museum Studies from the Cooperstown Graduate Program of the State University of New York, and a B.A. in Social Anthropology from Harvard University.
NEW:
Summaries of Conference Crowdsourcing Game Available
Elizabeth Merritt,
Founding Director of AAM’s Center for the Future of Museums
and our luncheon presenter at the Museums in Conversations
conference,
has just posted the following summaries of our
prognostications on the CFM blog
http://www.futureofmuseums.org/thinking/blog.cfm
Beth talks about the crowdsourcing game she guided us through
at lunch and links to a summary of the energy portion of the
discussion. She’s also working on a summary of the "MyCulture"
discussion that looked at user-input, social tagging, etc.,
and she hopes to post that before the end of the month.
Please read, comment, and pass the link along to others who
might want to wade in!
NEW:
Labor Data Available from MANY's
Economic Health Index Poll
Click Here for a
synopsis.
NEW:
Where to Take Your Economic Stimulus
Proposals
For those of you who want to submit proposals for economic stimulus funding, we have been advised by the governor's office that a direct way to do so is through this website:
www.economicrecovery.ny.gov.
This way, your request will go directly to the state's Economic Recovery and Reinvestment Cabinet.
The proposal form will ask you to choose from menus of project categories, such as Energy and Environment, Infrastructure, and Education. You will be asked to describe your project and provide a dollar amount and timeframe. Remember, these projects are to be "shovel-ready" -- that means that they are all planned, cost out and ready to go.
Submitting a proposal simply gets it in the hopper with hundreds of others, so it's wise to initiate and stay in contact with your state legislators and your local officials.
NEW:
Nonprofit Association Offers Guide to
Stimulus Money
The National Council of Nonprofits, an organization in
Washington representing state nonprofit associations, has
issued two reports
on how the economic-stimulus package that President Obama
signed into law last week will affect charities.
One summarizes the major spending and tax-cut provisions in
the $787-billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and
identifies potential grant opportunities for charities.
The second offers tips for groups that are considering
applying for stimulus money. Among them: “Get Ready Now,”
“Stress the Official Purpose,” “Read the Entire Act,” and
“Just Because Grant Money Exists Doesn’t Mean You Should Ask
for Some.”
From the Chronicle of Philanthropy, February 24, 2009
IMLS Reauthorization
As many of you know, we have been engaged in a longstanding
conversation about how best to approach reauthorization of the
Institute of Museum and Library Services’ Office of Museum
Services, which is due to occur by September, 2009.
Read More
MANY Leadership Development and Succession Planning
Tools
With funding assistance from the New York State Council on the
Arts and the Corning Foundation, Inc., MANY is pleased to
announce the following programs for institutions and
individuals engaged in issues of leadership development and
succession planning.
Succession Planning Portal - See Left-hand Navigation Bar
Whether you are a board member, executive director, staff
member, emerging leader or volunteer, if your organization
faces leadership change the information listed here provides
answers to the myriad questions that emerge during leadership
transition.
Resources are divided in four sections:
·
Change at the Top,
that is devoted to executive transition;
·
Being the Best, Encouraging the Best,
information on talent development for boards, executive
directors, and individual staff members;
·
Giving Back,
articles and Web sites on mentoring-how to be one and how to
get one;
·
Double X and Leadership,
information on what it means to be a woman in the non-profit
world and more particularly in the museum world.
This portal contains links to a variety of Web sites other
than our own, many of which are not museum-related. We hope
you will find this information useful, and that it leads you
to new and imaginative ways of thinking about leadership.Comment boxes at the end of each section to describe your
own experience or respond to what you have read.
New Listservs
MUSEUMDIRECTORS: This discussion
list is for museum directors to share leadership and
management insights, to exchange information about governance,
HR and development best practices, and to generally support
one another in an increasingly challenging environment. It's
often lonely at the top - whether you're directing a small
shop or a multi-layered institution - we all benefit from
opportunities talk about what we do with our peers. Directors
from all sizes and disciplines of institutions and with all
levels of tenure are encouraged to subscribe and participate.
To subscribe, send an email to: MUSEUMDIRECTORS-SUBSCRIBE-REQUEST@home.ease.lsoft.com
MUSEUMSUCCESSION:
This discussion list is
for institutions that are addressing issues of
leadership transition, staff and board development, and
executive search. Come share your insights, exchange
information and ask lots of questions! Let's create some
great models together for building and growing a museum's
human capital. To subscribe, send an email to
MUSEUMSUCCESSION-SUBSCRIBE-REQUEST@home.ease.lsoft.com.
Corning Incorporated
Foundation
Managing in Tough Times, a Bridgespan Group Report Tough
times force hard choices. And these are rapidly becoming the
toughest times most of us have ever seen. Even for nonprofit
leaders who are accustomed to 'making much of little,' the
repercussions of the unfolding economic downturn are likely to
pose unprecedented challenges. It’s hard to imagine that many
(if any) of us in the sector will escape unscathed.
Read the
report
2008-09 Salary and Benefits Survey
Available Here
This biennial publication examines compensation and benefits
of more than 70 job titles from 109 New York State museums and
historical organizations.
Order Here
MANY
Board Approves 2009 Advocacy Agenda At its October board meeting the MANY board approved a
three-pronged advocacy agenda for the next year. Among
the items are maintenance of current funding levels for
museums from various state programs, assessment of the energy
needs of museums, and several administrative efficiencies.
Read More
Green
Museums Wiki
Share and learn -- that's what it's all about
at Sarah Brophy's wiki.
Greening not just for the big institution or
the newly constructed one anymore. Going green is on the
minds of all sizes of museums.
Check out our resource page.
New Abandoned
Property Law for Museums
To read MANY's summary of the law,
click
here.
Mapping Museums in New
York State
Thanks to the work of
Kevin Heard of the Binghamton University GIS Department and
Joann Lindstrom, a graduate of the University's Masters in
Public Administration program, we now have tools to help us
better understand the geographic impact of museums across the
state, as well as the distribution of museum
disciplines. Click the images below for the detailed
maps:
All Museums
Museums by Type
Detailed
maps are 3300 x 2550 pixels - scroll to see all areas
of the maps.
Internet Explorer users: Use the image control in the
lower right corner to expand and shrink.
Firefox users: click maps to expand and shrink.
Trends
We Think Are Important Trends come and trends go, but our list -- along
with its implications for museums -- cites major issues that
are both new and long-unaddressed.
Learn More
In 2006, representatives from over two dozen federal agencies,
nonprofit professional organizations, and not-for-profit
organizations came together to agree on the definitions of
common terminology used by interpreters, environmental
educators, historians, and others in informal settings such
as parks, aquariums, zoos, nature centers, historic sites, and
museums.
Learn more and download the list
Fundraising is important for all of us. ShopforMuseums.com is an online fundraising program where
anyone in your community can do their everyday online shopping and have a percentage of their purchase
amount donated to your museum at no extra cost. Registration and participation is free.
There are over 300 stores to shop including Target, Staples, CompUSA, and Lands End. Additional
stores can be added by request. And now’s the perfect time of year to visit the site, get
registered, and start promoting this benefit to your members!
Use the Amazon.com Portal at the Upper Left to Shop Online
and Help MANY Earn Extra Cash
Now MANY members along with their friends and family can help MANY earn extra income each time they
shop online at Amazon.com. Just begin your online shopping trip at MANY's homepage.
Click on the Amazon icon located in the lower left corner of the homepage. MANY will receive a small
commission from your purchase -- at no extra charge to you!
New York State Education Department Annual Report
Museums, Historical Societies & Similar Cultural Agencies
2001