Good Morning Museum-List people,

1.)     Recently, I was asked by a museum colleague, "Is it customary
for members of a museum's Board of Trustees to be required - as a
requirement of being a member of the Board of Trustees - to make an
annual minimum monetary donation to the museum?" 

I am aware of one art museum in another state (back in the early 1980s),
which required its Board members to annually:  a.) be a "personal"
member of the museum's membership program at a $2,000+ level; b.) have
her/his business at a "corporate" membership level of $1,000+; and c.)
use her/his influence to secure an annually prescribed amount of funds
for Board of Trustees' identified projects/activities in the form of
various gifts, sponsorships, etc....  It was my understanding that each
Board member knew this before becoming a member of that museum's Board
of Trustees, and each Board member knew that if she/he did not annually
respond to this financial requirement of serving on the Board, the
President of the Board would "ask" that person to resign from the Board.

2.)     It is my intent to respond to my museum colleague's question.
But before I do, I thought it would be prudent, on my part, to give my
museum colleague a more "up-to-date" response.

3.)     So, I am asking my Museum-List-Serve colleagues the same
question....."Is it customary for members of a museum's Board of
Trustees to be required - as a requirement of being a member of the
Board of Trustees - to make an annual minimum donation to the museum?"
Please note, that for confidentiality reasons, you do not need to name
the museum.  However, if you know of such a museum, I would like a sense
of a monetary commitment the Board member would have to make.  I will
use your response to this question to answer the question posed by my
museum colleague.

By the way, I will post my response on this List-Serve.

Thank you,

Wesley

Wesley S. Creel

Administrator of Programs

Pink Palace Family of Museums

Memphis, TN

Office 901.320.6370

www.memphismuseums.org <http://www.memphismuseums.org/> 

 

 


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