Partnership Power
Essential Museum Strategies for Today's Networked World
1st Edition
Published on 28. February 2019
388 pages
978-1-5381-0315-9 (ISBN)
Description
Partnership Power examines museum-related partnerships, collaborations, and networks within today's dynamic, ever-changing environment. With today's greater emphasis is placed on measurable community impact and leveraging technology for greater reach and connection on significant social challenges, partnerships have become increasingly important.
Through perspectives from other, related sectors, including libraries and other nonprofits; current museum case studies from a broad and diverse spectrum of museum types (history, children's, art, science, and ethnic); and proven tools, tips, and resources, Partnership Power: Essential Museum Strategies for Today's Networked World serves as an invaluable primer for museums - and museum professionals -- wanting to create and sustain effective partnerships and collaborations. The volume helps solve the partnership puzzle, focusing on the essential attributes of sustainable and relevant collaborations, within communities, states, and nationally, including examples of broader multi-institutional networks that are increasingly important to maintain relevance in this hyper-connected world. It contains words of wisdom from museum leaders, funders, community organizers, and researchers-both industry experts and newcomers--on what authentic partnership means, how partnerships evolve, the benefits of partnerships as well as the challenges they present. How does a museum determine and select a viable partner or partners? What happens when a partnership encounters the inevitable pitfalls and barriers? When should you move away from a partnership? How does one evaluate a partnership's success or failure?
The book also looks inside the museum: the key issues of institutional culture, staff skills and competencies, managing financial resources, marketing the partnership, and working with boards that often emerge in the context of partnership development and management?
Through perspectives from other, related sectors, including libraries and other nonprofits; current museum case studies from a broad and diverse spectrum of museum types (history, children's, art, science, and ethnic); and proven tools, tips, and resources, Partnership Power: Essential Museum Strategies for Today's Networked World serves as an invaluable primer for museums - and museum professionals -- wanting to create and sustain effective partnerships and collaborations. The volume helps solve the partnership puzzle, focusing on the essential attributes of sustainable and relevant collaborations, within communities, states, and nationally, including examples of broader multi-institutional networks that are increasingly important to maintain relevance in this hyper-connected world. It contains words of wisdom from museum leaders, funders, community organizers, and researchers-both industry experts and newcomers--on what authentic partnership means, how partnerships evolve, the benefits of partnerships as well as the challenges they present. How does a museum determine and select a viable partner or partners? What happens when a partnership encounters the inevitable pitfalls and barriers? When should you move away from a partnership? How does one evaluate a partnership's success or failure?
The book also looks inside the museum: the key issues of institutional culture, staff skills and competencies, managing financial resources, marketing the partnership, and working with boards that often emerge in the context of partnership development and management?
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Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Illustrations
9 b/w photos; 1 table; 18 textboxes
ISBN-13
978-1-5381-0315-9 (9781538103159)
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02/2019
American Alliance of Museums
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Person
Marsha Semmel is a national museum leader who has served in senior executive positions at the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Institute of Museum and Library Services. She has been the President and CEO of two museums, Conner Prairie and the Women of the West Museum. Semmel has been senior advisor to the Noyce Foundation's Noyce Leadership Institute, a global program for science and technology center leaders. She is currently on the faculty of the Bank Street College of Education's graduate program in museum leadership and serves as senior advisor to the Center for Science and Civic Engagement, a national network of academic and informal learning organizations based at the State University of New York Stony Brook.
Content
PART I: Partnership Power: Essential Museum Strategies for Today's Networked World Introduction Marsha L. Semmel
PART II: Partnership Perspectives
Chapter 1: My Partnership Journey Marsha L. Semmel
Chapter 2: From a Museum Basement to a City of Learning: Pittsburgh's Remake Learning Network Gregg Behr
Chapter 3: Partnerships as the Great Good PlaceElyse Eidman-Aadahl Chapter 4: Partnerships, Not Mergers Peter Ellsworth
Chapter 5: Us Versus Them: How to Bridge Boundaries to Discover New Partnership Frontiers Chris Ernst
Chapter 6: Partnering with the Public John Falk
Chapter 7: Meaningful Partnerships and the Eight "Ates" Kate Goodall
Chapter 8: Why Museums Must Turn Outward to Find the Right Partners Richard C. Harwood
Chapter 9: Mapping Collaborations David La Piana and Melissa Mendes Campos
Chapter 10: Growing a Strategic Partnership Mindset within a New Museum Marsha Semmel, based on interviews with Auntaneshia Staveloz, Allison Prabhu, Nicole Bryner, and Marion McGee
Chapter 11: Partnerships for STEM Beyond the School Day Ronald L. Ottinger and Cary Sneider
Chapter 12: Museums Can Take a Lead in Cultivating Vibrant Learning Ecosystems Katherine Prince
Chapter 13: Strategic Partnership as Organizational Practice: The Hive NYC Learning Network Raphael Santo
Chapter 14: Creating the People's University Marshal Semmel, based on interviews with Felton Thomas, Jr.
PART III: Partnership Profiles
Chapter 15: From "They" to "We": A Study in Collaboration Balboa Park Cultural Partnership Team under leadership of Peter Comiskey, Edited by Kristen Mihalko
Chapter 16: Partnering in Digital Resource Creation Nik Honeysett,
Chapter 17: In Pursuit of Freedom: A Partnership Grows in Brooklyn Deborah Schwartz
Chapter 18: Habla Espanol? Tammie Kahn
Chapter 19: Partnerships in Transforming a Neighborhood and Learning Landscape Jane Werner and Suzanne McCaffrey
Chapter 20: A Museum Turns Outward: Listening and Learning Marsha Semmel, based oninterviews with Joe Hastings and Kristen Leigh
Chapter 21: Growing and Evolving a Network of Small Cultural Organizations Marsha Semmel, based on interviews with Althemese Barnes, Phyllis Ford, and Audrey Davis
Chapter 22: Be Our Guest! The GW Model for Programming Museums John Wetenhall
Chapter 23: Catalyzing Neighborhood Revitalization Marsha Semmel, based oninterviews with Marvin Pinkert and Lindsey Thompson
Chapter 24: An Institutional Commitment to a New Model of Community Collaboration Elisabeth Callahan and Karleen Gardner
Chapter 25: Partnership 3.0: The Case of OMSI Marsha Semmel, based on interviews with Nancy Stueber, Marcie Benne, Lauren Moreno, and Kyrie Kellett
Chapter 26: Growing the "Experiment Station" through New Partnerships Marsha Semmel, based on interviews with Dorothy Kosinski and Suzanne Wrigh
PART IV: Tools, Tips, and Resources
Chapter 27: Resources for Partnerships and NetworksMarsha L. Semmel
PART II: Partnership Perspectives
Chapter 1: My Partnership Journey Marsha L. Semmel
Chapter 2: From a Museum Basement to a City of Learning: Pittsburgh's Remake Learning Network Gregg Behr
Chapter 3: Partnerships as the Great Good PlaceElyse Eidman-Aadahl Chapter 4: Partnerships, Not Mergers Peter Ellsworth
Chapter 5: Us Versus Them: How to Bridge Boundaries to Discover New Partnership Frontiers Chris Ernst
Chapter 6: Partnering with the Public John Falk
Chapter 7: Meaningful Partnerships and the Eight "Ates" Kate Goodall
Chapter 8: Why Museums Must Turn Outward to Find the Right Partners Richard C. Harwood
Chapter 9: Mapping Collaborations David La Piana and Melissa Mendes Campos
Chapter 10: Growing a Strategic Partnership Mindset within a New Museum Marsha Semmel, based on interviews with Auntaneshia Staveloz, Allison Prabhu, Nicole Bryner, and Marion McGee
Chapter 11: Partnerships for STEM Beyond the School Day Ronald L. Ottinger and Cary Sneider
Chapter 12: Museums Can Take a Lead in Cultivating Vibrant Learning Ecosystems Katherine Prince
Chapter 13: Strategic Partnership as Organizational Practice: The Hive NYC Learning Network Raphael Santo
Chapter 14: Creating the People's University Marshal Semmel, based on interviews with Felton Thomas, Jr.
PART III: Partnership Profiles
Chapter 15: From "They" to "We": A Study in Collaboration Balboa Park Cultural Partnership Team under leadership of Peter Comiskey, Edited by Kristen Mihalko
Chapter 16: Partnering in Digital Resource Creation Nik Honeysett,
Chapter 17: In Pursuit of Freedom: A Partnership Grows in Brooklyn Deborah Schwartz
Chapter 18: Habla Espanol? Tammie Kahn
Chapter 19: Partnerships in Transforming a Neighborhood and Learning Landscape Jane Werner and Suzanne McCaffrey
Chapter 20: A Museum Turns Outward: Listening and Learning Marsha Semmel, based oninterviews with Joe Hastings and Kristen Leigh
Chapter 21: Growing and Evolving a Network of Small Cultural Organizations Marsha Semmel, based on interviews with Althemese Barnes, Phyllis Ford, and Audrey Davis
Chapter 22: Be Our Guest! The GW Model for Programming Museums John Wetenhall
Chapter 23: Catalyzing Neighborhood Revitalization Marsha Semmel, based oninterviews with Marvin Pinkert and Lindsey Thompson
Chapter 24: An Institutional Commitment to a New Model of Community Collaboration Elisabeth Callahan and Karleen Gardner
Chapter 25: Partnership 3.0: The Case of OMSI Marsha Semmel, based on interviews with Nancy Stueber, Marcie Benne, Lauren Moreno, and Kyrie Kellett
Chapter 26: Growing the "Experiment Station" through New Partnerships Marsha Semmel, based on interviews with Dorothy Kosinski and Suzanne Wrigh
PART IV: Tools, Tips, and Resources
Chapter 27: Resources for Partnerships and NetworksMarsha L. Semmel
