Especially if you’re a new or upcoming cultural institution, it’s likely that you’re using a membership Excel template to manage your members and membership dues. A membership Excel template is a form that allows you to track members, expiration dates, and membership dues, providing you with...
Having a robust membership retention strategy is often just as important as your membership recruitment strategy. If you can’t retain members, you’re going to end up spending a lot more money on your recruitment campaign, resulting in a cycle that isn’t sustainable for long-term growth. Your...
When tickets, membership subscriptions, gift shop sales, and food and snack sales aren’t enough to meet the growing demands of a nonprofit, most cultural institutions turn to fundraising. But what’s the best way to engage donors and ensure that your fundraising strategy is a success? By...
Demographic shifts and continual technological transformations unsettle every initiative in an organization’s path including marketplace expansion, operational intuitiveness and customer relationship management. All types of enterprises feel the reverberating impacts of these disruptions, not the least of which are cultural institutions. No longer can traditional marketing...
Annual reports are an important end-of-the-year step that helps communicate the impact that a non-profit has made within their field of work. They’re a necessary task to end the year and can contribute to the growth of the organization heading forward. If done well, nonprofit annual...
Hosting events are great ways to bring a community together and bolster your overall growth as a cultural institution. If you’re trying to accrue long-term memberships, events are often visited by guests who are interested in more than just a one-time visit, making the overall...
Not too long ago in the culture industry, setting up a credit card processing system as a nonprofit would be unheard of. The additional costs and fees simply didn’t make sense for a nonprofit institution with limited resources. As we enter the third decade of the...
