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Adrienne Wiseman posted a new Topic
Sunday, Jan 21, 2024 at 9:52 AM
Looking to Improve our Booking Systems for Groups, any advice?
I work for a museum with several K12 group experience options between our museum galleries, labs, and shows. Our K12 booking process has outgrown our (originally) simple systems with google form requests and a calendar. We've added staff, but It's taking far longer to book, confirm, prepare for, and bill our groups. And our reporting is a mess. We're currently thinking about hiring a consultant to help us breakdown our process to find solutions (software? organization of staff?). I'm won...
Stephen Hermes posted a reply on Re: Unlimited PTO
Saturday, Jan 20, 2024 at 2:51 PM
Said: Teresa,I am on the board and the Treasurer of the San Diego Children's Discovery Museum. I have worked with many small to mid-sized nonprofits and have only one experience with an unlimited PTO policy. The only employee ...
Teresa Craft posted a new Topic
Friday, Jan 19, 2024 at 5:24 PM
Unlimited PTO
As a small museum who can't offer health insurance, we are looking for other benefits we can offer employees. For a while we have followed a fairly standard PTO policy where sick & holiday & PTO were bundled together with an average year allowance starting at 2 weeks and going up from there. Because of both the seasonal nature of some of our positions and the recognition of the importance of work-life balance, we are thinking of switching to an unlimited PTO policy.
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Beth Housewert posted a reply on Re: Lodging/Hotel/Motel Tax Funding
Friday, Jan 19, 2024 at 8:56 AM
Said: Beth... at one of my museums, they received this type of funding but it was a bit restricted as it was to only pay for rentals! The museum used it for traveling exhibits and was able to hugely bolster the interaction and diversity of ex...
Corinne Wolffe posted a reply on Re: Lodging/Hotel/Motel Tax Funding
Thursday, Jan 18, 2024 at 4:41 PM
Said: Hi Beth - I just sent you an email. Happy to talk about the process in Washington.
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