Webinars
Remuseum is focused on helping museums enhance their financial sustainability and relevance and supporting more innovation in service of their missions. That’s why we’ll be presenting free online sessions with experts on museum practices, open to all.
Untapped Sources of Capital for Museums
Remuseum is focused on helping museums enhance their financial sustainability and relevance and supporting more innovation in service of their missions. That’s why we’ll be presenting free online sessions with experts on museum practices, open to all.
Join us for our next webinar:
Untapped Sources of Capital for Museums
Wednesday, March 19, 2025
12:00pm – 1:00pm ET
Register here.
Webinar is free and open to all.
Museums have traditionally relied almost exclusively on charitable giving and municipal bonds to fund their expansions, renovations, and other mission-based capital projects. There is, however, another world of untapped (or undertapped) sources of capital and revenue that museums may want to explore.
Join Remuseum for a webinar that explores these overlooked sources of capital and revenue for museums, including funding related to investments in environmental sustainability, creative uses of Donor-Advised Funds (DAFs), Program-related Investments, and non-traditional endowment investments. Stephen Reily will be joined by experts who will share examples of how museums and cultural organizations can build alternative sources into their capital stacks.
Our speakers are:
Stephanie Shapiro, Managing Director, Environment & Culture Partners
Anna Raginskaya, Vice President, Blue Rider Group at Morgan Stanley
David F. Sand, Co-Chief Impact Strategist, Community Capital Management, LLC
“Museum Fundraising: Maximizing Individual Giving”
Presented by Remuseum and Benefactor Group, this webinar discussed best practices in major-donor portfolio management in higher education and how to apply them to the development and stewardship of individual giving programs at American art museums. Stephen Reily was joined by Laura MacDonald, who leads Benefactor Group, which works with both arts organizations and universities to structure and maximize their mission-based philanthropic support, Bruce Loessin, Chief Philanthropy Officer of the Cleveland Museum of Art, and Pete Scantland, successful entrepreneur, Art in America “Top 200” Collector, and museum Board President and trustee.
The Art and Science of Museum Fundraising
For most museums, nothing can generate a greater return-on-investment (meaning a great impact for their missions and impact) than investing in major-gift fundraising. At the same time, many museum leaders – of even our largest museums – have expressed a lack of confidence in knowing how much to invest in fundraising, and exactly what returns to expect.
That’s why our first webinar in this series was on the topic “The Art and Science of Museum Fundraising”, Remuseum partnered with CCS Fundraising to talk through the state of arts philanthropy and to provide specific examples of the kinds of fundraising practices that can help museums maximize the return on their fundraising investment.