Tools and Toolkits

Are you considering starting a nonprofit? Check out these short videos to build your knowledge of planning a nonprofit, governance basics, and the nonprofit sector.      

Source: integraorg            

This comprehensive toolkit offers practical strategies, insightful case studies, and interactive exercises to enhance understanding and implementation of diversity initiatives within your board.

Source: Pillar Non-Profit

Approved by the CMA membership in 1999, these are the most current set of ethics standards available. Currently under review.

Source: Canadian Museums Association

The intent of this module is to document the fiduciary responsibility of museum management by explaining basic principles and standards of financial management.

Source: BC Museums Association

This is a checklist and introduction to what should be done to establish a Human Resource plan that includes all aspects of human resources - Board, staff and volunteers.

Source: Canadian Museums Association

These guidelines were developed to assist Board members understand the additional fiduciary Public Trust role and responsibilities the are required to uphold by law in Canada.

Source: CAMDO/CMA

In the complex society in which we live, it is virtually impossible for a museum to make its way without establishing alliances and partnerships that work to strengthen its ability to fulfill its mandate.

Source: BC Museums Association

Succession management is a continuous strategic process that enables a museum to sustain its operations in times of senior staff transition by proactively recruiting and grooming people for promotion to key roles.

Source: BC Museums Association

This toolkit is designed to assist other museum workers in their efforts to develop interpretive strategies that provide meaningful connections and conversations with their communities and embrace the many voices and perspectives

Building a relationship with our communities has become a high priority for museums. This resource provides a process to guide museum in understanding, evaluating and strengthening their relationship with their community and its public trust role.

Source Alberta Museums Associatin

This webinar looks at creating brave spaces through physical museum and gallery spaces, programming, collaborative relationships, staff management, and policies, with tools the participants can bring into their own institutions.

Source: BC Museums Association

The toolkit outlines a process through which individual museums can work with the community to assess their relevance and create a plan to deepen their relationship with the community, in turn increasing the sustainability of the museum. S

Source: Ontario Museums Asociation

This comprehensive guide outlines the theory and tools for practice towards creating greater equity within the museum field. Visit their website for additional resources

Source: Mass Action

Nina Simon shares the radical transformation the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (MAH) went through, doubling attendance and introducing new levels of collaboration, dynamism, and relevance to the museum.

Source: Ted X/Talks

Your go-to-resources if you want to understand what is systemic change and how to embody systems thinking. Part of our innovation lab 'Museums Facing Extinction', supported by EIT-Climate KIC, in collaboration with KiCulture.

Source: Ki Culture / We Are Museums

The Art of Relevance explores how mission-driven organizations can matter more to more people. The book is packed with resources and practical advice on how your work can be more vital to your community.

Source: Nina Simon / Museum 2.0

This paper serves as a deep dive into the origins, definition, characteristics of the Empethetic Museum and provides guidance for the model’s implementation and evaluation.

Source: The Empathetic Museum

The Participatory Museum is a practical guide to working with community members and visitors to make cultural institutions more dynamic, relevant, essential places.

Source: Nina Simon / Museum 2.0

Museums today are called to become more active citizens, involved in addressing the social issues faced by their communities. This paper provides a guide for the necessary discussions and mindset members of the museum must have to successfully embrace this exciting new community role.

Source: Alberta Museums Association

This study asked Canadians two questions to determine whether museums were relevant institutions to Canadians: What do you value about museums and do trust museums as public institutions The answers were surprising.

Source: Alberta Museums Associationj

This toolkit, developed in collaboration with museums and galleries across the UK, offers practical guidance for developing and delivering community engagement activities.Covering consultation, collaboration and co-curation, the guidance is suitable for both beginners

An outcome of the Small Museums and Digital Transformation Project, this content-rich online resource covers every aspect of digital technologies and includes downloadable toolkits, webinars and online forums

Source: Museum Learning Hub