After a decade of operations, in 2021, our Board of Trustees charged our Growth Committee with the task of examining our successes and exploring opportunities for increasing the scale and impact of our work. The result is a new growth plan that explores new trajectories for the organization.

Learning Workshops with Knology

In 2021, Knology launched a formal program for on-demand training sessions to provide professionals with critical skills and resources. Highlights included a speakers’ bureau and a series of workshops. Taken together, these efforts helped organizations better understand social science theories and principles, and more effectively design surveys and develop logic models.

https://knology.org/article/learning-workshops-with-knology

ACM Trends

We entered our fifth volume year of co-publishing the ACM Trends Report series with the Association of Children’s Museums. In this volume year, we transitioned into an editorial role, convening meetings and collaborating with external researchers to broaden the journal’s content. The series was conceived as a data-rich reporting program that provides benchmarking data to aid in museum operations and management decisions. For an overview of the entire ACM Trends Report series, see:

https://knology.org/article/acm-trends-data-driven-outcomes-for-children-s-museums

Books by Knology Staff

We were pleased to create a dedicated space on the Knology website highlighting books written or edited by our staff. In 2021, John Fraser and co-author Tawnya Switzer published a new book with Cambridge University Press entitled The Social Value of Zoos, and we anticipate that our partnership with the global publisher Springer Nature of Cham (Switzerland) will result in a wave of new publications. We also finalized our agreement and delivered the first installment in the Springer/Knology, Psychology and Our Planet book series.

https://knology.org/article/books-by-knology

Photo credit: Note Thanun on Unsplash