California Association of Museums

“Various museums, businesses and individuals are members of the association. Institutional and individual members in good standing have the right to vote.”

“Members, as described above, in good standing have the right to elect members to the governing body.”

“As outlined in the associations by-laws, on the election of directors, the disposition of all or substantially all of the corporations assets, and any election to dissolve the corporation.”

“The finance committee and the board review the form 990 prior to filing.”

“The directors and key employees annually acknowledge and certify to the compliance with the conflict of interest policy and file a copy of such certification with the executive committee of the board.”

“Annual compensation review for the executive director is conducted by the executive committee and includes comparability data and contemporaneous substantiation of the deliberation and decision.”

“Not applicable as the organization has no other officers or key employees that are compensated.”

“Available upon request. This is available on cams website on the about page.”

“To unify and strengthen california museums to expand their collective impact, through professional development programs, information and resource-sharing, communications relating to california museums, and special initiatives.”

“California association of museums cam, an association funded in 1979, is dedicated to advancing museums across california in service to their communities. Today, cam is one of the strongest and most active state museum associations in the nation, committed to advocating for museums while providing innovative and educational programs and services to museums and individual professionals.cams vision is stronger museums create a stronger californiax and the mission statement reads cam unifies and strengthens california museums to expand their collective impact. Cam currently has over 1,300 individual, business, and institutional members, located in over 40 of californias 58 counties. Cams governing body, the board of directors, consists of 19-23 directors and senior managers from museums of varying size and scope. The board members represent art institutions, history museums, multidisciplinary organizations, natural history/science museums, and institutions with living collections.”

“In addition to the annual conference and regional workshops see line 4b and its advocacy program see line 4c, cam supports the success of california museums through these key programs and serviceselectronic newsletters cam enews and cam updates, biweekly newsletters, have over 5,000 subscribers and are the industrys best sources for relevant information. Special initiatives innovative efforts seek to meet the needs of and provide leadership for the museum field. A strategic action committee leverages foresight research to determine priorities to push the california museum field forward and works to activate those priorities. The committee influences the associations work in the areas of museum relevance and sustainability, emerging professional development, foresight research, and diversity, equity, accessibility, and inclusion. Special interest license plate a major initiative of the association was the establishment of a new, official california special interest license plate with the image of snoopy. The license plate is now available for purchase through the department of motor vehicles. A new grant program is being established to support california museums from the proceeds of the plate.”