More than half of the people who gave to a US nonprofit in 2024 did not give again in 2025. The Fundraising Effectiveness Project, run by the AFP Foundation for Philanthropy and GivingTuesday, put full-year donor retention for 2025 at 43.3 percent, up slightly from 43.1 percent. Repeat donors held on a little better. Retention…
There is a specific quality of attention that settles over people in a well-designed museum gallery. It is not the same as reading, or watching, or listening to music. It is something closer to sustained looking, the kind that accumulates slowly and leaves a particular residue when it is over. The museum store sits at…
The Hillwood shop in Washington sits in a genuinely unusual position. On one side of it is one of the most significant collections of Russian imperial art outside of Moscow, Fabergé eggs and imperial porcelain and pieces acquired during the decade when Soviet authorities were selling off tsarist holdings. On the other side, through the…
The case for exhibition-linked merchandise is not hard to make. A traveling show creates urgency. The opening brings people who are specifically excited about the subject matter. The window is defined, which makes buying decisions easier. You order for the run, you clear inventory when it closes, you move on. The logic is clean. The…