AMIGOS DEL MUSEO DEL BARRIO, INC.
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
In 2014, New York Times journalist Holland Cotter wrote "A little over a year ago, El Museo del Barrio, the oldest museum in the United States devoted to Latino art, had the equivalent of a nervous breakdown in public." Four years later we have started the rehabilitation of the institution with a new Executive Director Patrick Charpenel (from Sept 2017) and more robust board. We've secured support for the next step - developing a strategic plan with a nationally renowned non profit arts management expert. Our goal is to create a revitalized institution focused on growth and an exciting forward driven vision that recognizes the historical significance of our past as we stabilize and grow the institution to resumed its rightful place in the museum landscape of the United States.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Museum: Public Exhibitions of Latinx / Hispanic Arts and Culture
El Museo’s varied permanent collection of over 6,500 objects, spans more than 800 years of Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino art, includes pre-Columbian Taíno artifacts, traditional arts, twentieth-century drawings, paintings, sculptures and installations, as well as prints, photography, documentary films, and video.
Where we work
Awards
America's Cultural Treasures 2020
Ford Foundation
External reviews
Photos
Videos
Our results
How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.
Total number of audience members
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
People of Latin American descent
Related Program
Museum: Public Exhibitions of Latinx / Hispanic Arts and Culture
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
20-2021 Museum's exhibitions delayed due to COVID shutdown 2018 audience variance explanation. El Museo was closed for 8 months.
Total number of exhibitions
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
People of Latin American descent
Related Program
Museum: Public Exhibitions of Latinx / Hispanic Arts and Culture
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Holding steady
Context Notes
Museum shutdown during COVID pandemic and reopened to limited hours fall 2020. The museum shut for part of 2018.
Number of books published for previously published writers
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Multiracial people, People of African descent, People of Latin American descent, Age groups
Related Program
Museum: Public Exhibitions of Latinx / Hispanic Arts and Culture
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
In 2023, El Museo will publish RAPHAEL MONTAÑEZ ORTIZ, a monograph dedicated to the preeminent Nuyorican artist and founder and first director of El Museo del Barrio, Raphael Montañez Ortiz.
Total number of awarded residencies
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Related Program
Museum: Public Exhibitions of Latinx / Hispanic Arts and Culture
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Goals & Strategy
Learn about the organization's key goals, strategies, capabilities, and progress.
Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
- Increase audience attendance both for exhibitions and museum programming.\n· Greater and more dynamic outreach to schools and higher group visits attendance.\n· More diverse programming planning that reaches a wide array of historically marginalized communities.\n· Increased institutional stability for incremental and projected growth.\n· Higher institutional visibility and name recognition of El Museo with Latinx and Latin American audiences and\n more diverse audiences in the arts and culture sector.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
1. Staff Resources: We plan to expand the board by five members, with a focus on arts and community\nphilanthropists and culture leaders. We also seek to stabilize through staffing Development, Curatorial, and\nCommunications departments with six new hires. Our first hires of fiscal year 2019 will be a Chief Curator, Curator, and a Curatorial Associate. All will serve to build up a long trajectory of programming that will align with our Executive Director's vision for the future of El Museo del Barrio.\n\nLastly, we will be staffing Communications, to strengthen our reach in the Latinx community. Roles to be filled:\nCommunications Director, Public Relations Manager, and Digital Media Associate. This will give the institution\ngreater control over its messaging as well as higher capacity for creativity.\n\n2. Marketing Strategy: Our marketing plans will focus on highlighting our rigorous exhibition schedule, our lauded\neducation and public programs plans, and our magnificent performance space. We will also partner with\ngovernment agencies and collaborating institutions to raise the profile of El Museo. lastly, we have identified\ncelebrity influencers to serve as brand ambassadors for our fundraising events. We have already begun talks with\nhigh profile artists for next year's gala and secured corporate underwriter support for Dia de los Muertos fundraiser.\n\n3. Developing Progressive Educational Programs: We are also developing a Strategic Education Initiative Plan,\nwhich will assess current strategies and outline new directives. We will redefine our education department, to not\nonly remain at the forefront of progress in bilingual and access programming, but offer a more significant impact for\naddressing social concerns to marginalized communities.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
El Museo is a well-established cultural institution with full business potential -- from gallery spaces, a magnificent theater venue, to the museum shop -- that can be fully realized with a well-developed business plan. We expect the consultant to deliver in close communication with all key staff, a detailed, step-by-step, three-year business plan aimed at financially stabilizing the institution.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
In this first year through a technical assistance grant from the Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone we have engaged the services of Michael Kaiser at the DeVos Institute of Arts Management that provides consultation and training for arts institutions. Mr. Kaiser has commenced the process of organizational audit working with the El Museo team comprising representatives from key departments of the museum, the community, and the institution's board of directors.
How we listen
Seeking feedback from people served makes programs more responsive and effective. Here’s how this organization is listening.
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How is your organization using feedback from the people you serve?
To identify and remedy poor client service experiences, To identify bright spots and enhance positive service experiences, To make fundamental changes to our programs and/or operations, To inform the development of new programs/projects, To identify where we are less inclusive or equitable across demographic groups, To strengthen relationships with the people we serve, To understand people's needs and how we can help them achieve their goals
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Which of the following feedback practices does your organization routinely carry out?
We collect feedback from the people we serve at least annually, We take steps to get feedback from marginalized or under-represented people, We aim to collect feedback from as many people we serve as possible, We take steps to ensure people feel comfortable being honest with us, We look for patterns in feedback based on demographics (e.g., race, age, gender, etc.), We engage the people who provide feedback in looking for ways we can improve in response, We act on the feedback we receive, We ask the people who gave us feedback how well they think we responded
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What challenges does the organization face when collecting feedback?
It is difficult to get the people we serve to respond to requests for feedback, The people we serve tell us they find data collection burdensome, Staff find it hard to prioritize feedback collection and review due to lack of time, It is difficult to get honest feedback from the people we serve, It is difficult to identify actionable feedback
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Operations
The people, governance practices, and partners that make the organization tick.
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AMIGOS DEL MUSEO DEL BARRIO, INC.
Board of directorsas of 03/09/2023
Ms. Maria Eugenia Maury
Philanthropist
Board leadership practices
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Board orientation and education
Does the board conduct a formal orientation for new board members and require all board members to sign a written agreement regarding their roles, responsibilities, and expectations? Yes -
CEO oversight
Has the board conducted a formal, written assessment of the chief executive within the past year ? Yes -
Ethics and transparency
Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? Yes -
Board composition
Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? Yes -
Board performance
Has the board conducted a formal, written self-assessment of its performance within the past three years? Yes
Organizational demographics
Who works and leads organizations that serve our diverse communities? Candid partnered with CHANGE Philanthropy on this demographic section.
Leadership
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Disability
Equity strategies
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- We review compensation data across the organization (and by staff levels) to identify disparities by race.
- We ask team members to identify racial disparities in their programs and / or portfolios.
- We analyze disaggregated data and root causes of race disparities that impact the organization's programs, portfolios, and the populations served.
- We disaggregate data to adjust programming goals to keep pace with changing needs of the communities we support.
- We employ non-traditional ways of gathering feedback on programs and trainings, which may include interviews, roundtables, and external reviews with/by community stakeholders.
- We disaggregate data by demographics, including race, in every policy and program measured.
- We have long-term strategic plans and measurable goals for creating a culture such that one’s race identity has no influence on how they fare within the organization.
- We use a vetting process to identify vendors and partners that share our commitment to race equity.
- We have a promotion process that anticipates and mitigates implicit and explicit biases about people of color serving in leadership positions.
- We seek individuals from various race backgrounds for board and executive director/CEO positions within our organization.
- We have community representation at the board level, either on the board itself or through a community advisory board.
- We help senior leadership understand how to be inclusive leaders with learning approaches that emphasize reflection, iteration, and adaptability.
- We measure and then disaggregate job satisfaction and retention data by race, function, level, and/or team.
- We engage everyone, from the board to staff levels of the organization, in race equity work and ensure that individuals understand their roles in creating culture such that one’s race identity has no influence on how they fare within the organization.