Time Runs Out on $5M Fundraising Goal for Colorado Ute Museum | Non Profit News For Nonprofit Organizations | Nonprofit Quarterly

Time Runs Out on $5M Fundraising Goal for Colorado Ute Museum | Non Profit News For Nonprofit Organizations | Nonprofit Quarterly: "Showing off a new tribal-funded, beautifully appointed place to call home, the Southern Ute Cultural Center and Museum’s relaunch in 2011 was not only off to a great start, the nonprofit was the belle of the ball in the West. The facility, which housed rich historical permanent exhibits on the history of the Ute people, including oral narratives, important flora and fauna, and scholarly archives, was declared by True West Magazine in 2012 as the “top history museum of the year.” It looked like the Colorado sky was the limit.

Sadly, the promising start devolved into missed fundraising goals, loss of support, and nonprofit staff having their paychecks held while refusing to reveal dwindling program numbers to tribal funders. The Durango Herald reports:"



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Micromanagement or Insubordination: It’s a Matter of Perspective | Nonprofit Quarterly

Micromanagement or Insubordination: It’s a Matter of Perspective | Nonprofit Quarterly: "When trust erodes between a nonprofit executive and a board, the death throes of the relationship can be torturous. Forrest Rodgers used to be the CEO at the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture in Spokane, but last summer a simmering struggle between Rodgers and the board blew up in a big way. After a long period of infighting one board member after another resigned, many of them in Rodgers’s camp, and once the coast was clear, the remainder of the board began a series of evaluations provided to him in written memos, culminating in an order to receive management training."



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Museums Test New Ways to Captivate Patrons—With and Without Technology | Nonprofit Quarterly

Museums Test New Ways to Captivate Patrons—With and Without Technology | Nonprofit Quarterly:



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Museum Staff Diversity Report Shows Women Poised for Leadership, Ethnic Minorities Not | Nonprofit Quarterly

Museum Staff Diversity Report Shows Women Poised for Leadership, Ethnic Minorities Not | Nonprofit Quarterly:



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Smithsonian Plans First Foreign Foray With London Gallery – Philanthropy Today - Blogs - The Chronicle of Philanthropy

Smithsonian Plans First Foreign Foray With London Gallery – Philanthropy Today - Blogs - The Chronicle of Philanthropy: "The Smithsonian Institution announced plans Tuesday for a 40,000-square-foot exhibition space in London that would be the 168-year-old museum and research complex’s first permanent outpost outside the United States, reports The New York Times. The proposed gallery would be part of a cultural quarter being developed at the East London site of the 2012 Olympics."



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Aviation Museum Inks Deal to Save ‘Rosie the Riveter’ Plant – Philanthropy Today - Blogs - The Chronicle of Philanthropy

Aviation Museum Inks Deal to Save ‘Rosie the Riveter’ Plant – Philanthropy Today - Blogs - The Chronicle of Philanthropy: The Yankee Air Museum in Michigan has signed an agreement to purchase a portion of a historic former factory associated with the “Rosie the Riveter” army of women who built bombers during World War II, The Ann Arbor News and the Associated Press report.

Opinion: Delaware Museum’s Art Sale Sets Dangerous Precedent – Philanthropy Today - Blogs - The Chronicle of Philanthropy

Opinion: Delaware Museum’s Art Sale Sets Dangerous Precedent – Philanthropy Today - Blogs - The Chronicle of Philanthropy: The Delaware Art Museum’s planned sale of works to pay down millions of dollars in debt and bolster its endowment will ultimately weaken rather than strengthen the institution, a leading museum executive writes in a Wall Street Journal opinion piece.

Museum makeover: Fundraising campaign launched for city flood facility � Latest News � The Tribune Democrat, Johnstown, PA

Museum makeover: Fundraising campaign launched for city flood facility � Latest News � The Tribune Democrat, Johnstown, PA: Next week’s 125th anniversary of the Great Johnstown Flood provides the launching pad for a major fundraising campaign to completely update the Johnstown Flood Museum.

The campaign was given a roaring start with a $750,000 grant from the Richard King Mellon Foundation of Pittsburgh, Mark Pasquerilla, Johnstown Area Heritage Association chairman, said Thursday during a press conference at the museum.

Diverse Museum Donor Base Shows Changing Cleveland Giving – Philanthropy Today - Blogs - The Chronicle of Philanthropy

Diverse Museum Donor Base Shows Changing Cleveland Giving – Philanthropy Today - Blogs - The Chronicle of Philanthropy: The Cleveland Museum of Art’s capital campaign to finance its newly finished expansion and renovation demonstrates how wealth and philanthropy have changed in the city in the last half-century, writes The Plain Dealer in one of a series of articles this week on the state of the institution.

Corporate Entanglements Raise Questions about Nonprofit Museum’s Bona Fides - NPQ - Nonprofit Quarterly

Corporate Entanglements Raise Questions about Nonprofit Museum’s Bona Fides - NPQ - Nonprofit Quarterly: How closely entangled with a for-profit company can a nonprofit be before it is no longer a nonprofit? That’s the question raised by a report issued by the Oregon Attorney General’s Office. In the case of the Evergreen Aviation and Space Museum, it seems that the audit was connected to a whistleblower’s report that the museum had transferred $700,000 (discovered in the audit to actually have been $725,000) to the for-profit Evergreen International Aviation company, one of several Evergreen companies controlled by Delford Smith, who was the driving force behind the creation of the museum and its Wings and Waves waterpark.

Museums Courting Young Donors Find Big Generational Shift – Philanthropy Today - Blogs - The Chronicle of Philanthropy

Museums Courting Young Donors Find Big Generational Shift – Philanthropy Today - Blogs - The Chronicle of Philanthropy: Museums Courting Young Donors Find Big Generational Shift

Officials at museums of all sizes are worried that young people aren’t prepared to support them with gifts and patronage and are not equipped to assume leadership roles, reports a New York Times piece that is part of a special section on museums

Judge Rules Met Museum Allowed to Charge 'Suggested' Fee - Philanthropy Today - The Chronicle of Philanthropy- Connecting the nonprofit world with news, jobs, and ideas

Judge Rules Met Museum Allowed to Charge 'Suggested' Fee - Philanthropy Today - The Chronicle of Philanthropy- Connecting the nonprofit world with news, jobs, and ideas: A New York State Supreme Court judge has thrown out key portions of two lawsuits over the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s admissions practices, ruling that the museum is not in breach of prior state and city agreements in charging a suggested entry fee, The New York Times and Bloomberg report.

Detroit Museum Amends Donor Policy to Safeguard Future Gifts - Philanthropy Today - The Chronicle of Philanthropy- Connecting the nonprofit world with news, jobs, and ideas

Detroit Museum Amends Donor Policy to Safeguard Future Gifts - Philanthropy Today - The Chronicle of Philanthropy- Connecting the nonprofit world with news, jobs, and ideas: The director of the Detroit Institute of Arts tells The Art Newspaper that the museum is changing the language of its donor agreement to ensure future donations cannot be used to alleviate Detroit’s financial woes.

“We are inserting into our deed of gift a line stating that from any sale of the work, the proceeds can only be used to buy more art,

Oprah's $12 Million Smithsonian Gift Largest In History Of National Museum of African American History

Oprah's $12 Million Smithsonian Gift Largest In History Of National Museum of African American History: WASHINGTON -- Oprah Winfrey has donated $12 million to the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture, the museum announced Tuesday.

Sept. 11 Museum to Charge Mandatory Admission Fee - Philanthropy Today - The Chronicle of Philanthropy- Connecting the nonprofit world with news, jobs, and ideas

Sept. 11 Museum to Charge Mandatory Admission Fee - Philanthropy Today - The Chronicle of Philanthropy- Connecting the nonprofit world with news, jobs, and ideas: The organization’s board voted last week to approve the mandatory admission fee, determining that “it’s more fiscally prudent to have a straight ticket charge” than an optional donation for visitors, said Joseph Daniels, president of the National September 11 Memorial & Museum.

Met Museum Reverses Course; Will Return Cambodian Statues - Philanthropy Today - The Chronicle of Philanthropy- Connecting the nonprofit world with news, jobs, and ideas

Met Museum Reverses Course; Will Return Cambodian Statues - Philanthropy Today - The Chronicle of Philanthropy- Connecting the nonprofit world with news, jobs, and ideas: In a move that reflects major museums’ growing sensitivity to foreign governments’ claims on cultural artifacts, New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art has agreed to return two signature works from its Asian collection to Cambodia, saying it now has convincing evidence they were smuggled out of the country, The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times write.

Fine Arts Museums hire Frick curator - SFGate

Fine Arts Museums hire Frick curator - SFGate

A Flurry of Museum Building With a Personal Stamp - NYTimes.com

A Flurry of Museum Building With a Personal Stamp - NYTimes.com

Museums Grapple With Onerous Restrictions on Donations - NYTimes.com

Museums Grapple With Onerous Restrictions on Donations - NYTimes.com: For museums and other institutions confronted with the sometimes onerous restrictions that donors place on major gifts, forever can be a very long time.

Dallas Museum of Art gears up for new policy of free general admission and free memberships, which starts Monday | Center Stage

Dallas Museum of Art gears up for new policy of free general admission and free memberships, which starts Monday | Center Stage: It all starts on Monday at the Dallas Museum of Art, when it rolls out its new Friends Partners program. The most enticing component is the DMA’s new policy of free general admission and free memberships, which it defined on Thursday as “a program of engagement that is intended to build long-term relationships with visitors and to emphasize participation over the transaction-based membership model that has become common practice among museums.”