Annual General Meeting 2025

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The Ontario Museum Association's Annual General Meeting for 2025 will be held online via Zoom on Monday September 29, 2025 from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Attendance at the AGM is open to all individual members of the OMA and to representatives of OMA Institutional members in good standing.

Members please find the AGM documents HERE:

The business of the Annual General Meeting will be followed by a keynote presentation by Samantha Summers, open to all OMA members registered for the AGM.

Fundraising in the Canadian Museum Sector

This presentation will be a frank discussion about the state of fundraising, and fundraising supports, in the museum field in Canada. Drawing on original research published in February of this year, lived experience, conversations with practitioners, and other research, speaker Samantha Summers will dive into current realities of funding and fundraising and explore actionable avenues to help build stronger fundraising programs for museums of all sizes. Attendees will leave with ideas of how to move forward in fundraising, how to gain new skills and fundraising expertise, and how to engage their community in funding support.

Presenter: Samantha Summers

Samantha Summers (she/her) is a Senior Development Officer with Kids Help Phone. Prior to this she worked in fundraising for a variety of Toronto cultural organizations, including ROM, TIFF, and a number of small museums. She currently serves on the Board of Hand Eye Society and as Treasurer on the Board of Directors of Sankofa Square, and has previously served on the Boards of Breakthroughs Film Festival and the Future of Film Showcase. She maintains a research career in the field of critical philanthropy studies, having had one article recently published in Museums and Social Issues, a peer-reviewed journal. She was also recently invited to design and teach a graduate-level at the University of Toronto titled “Critical Philanthropy Studies in Cultural Institutions”. In her spare time she provides philanthropic consulting for small- and equity-focused nonprofits. She holds an MMSt, MI, and HBA from the University of Toronto and an MA from Queen’s University; and is currently pursuing a Certificate in Nonprofit Management at George Brown.

Annual General Meeting 2025

Monday Sep 29 2025, 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Online

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