Never Waste Time Scheduling Meetings Again

Never Waste Time Scheduling Meetings Again

How many times have you gone back and forth and back and forth and back and forth with a colleague, vendor, or other contact to schedule a simple meeting or call?  Annoying, right?  All of that hullabaloo is taking up valuable minutes of your day that you could be using to create arts admin awesomeness. Luckily, there are a few tools out there now that allow you to simply send a URL and your contact and ...

Finance Cheat Sheet

An Executive Director’s Guide To Financial Leadership

Several months into the Executive Director position, I’m still hungry for great articles on the financial side of nonprofits. This one popped up on my Twitter feed last night from NonProfit Quarterly, and although the article is almost five years old, it’s a great tool for mapping out a financial plan for your organization. At the end of the article, this statement really hit home for me – “Executive directors learn that leading a nonprofit ...

How To Run A Museum (And Teach Others To As Well)

The United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) website has a guide for running museums written by the International Council of Museums (ICOM). The guide, Running A Museum: A Practical Handbook is available in English, Arabic, Chinese, French, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish as a basic primer for running any type of museum or historical site. It addresses all the basic concerns of museums including acquisition, storage, documentation, restoration, ethical questions, education, visitor management, employee ...