The tech will implement an organizational management initiative to strengthen staff growth opportunities, professional development, and capacity for building an inclusive workplace

The TECH Interactive, a nonprofit science and technology museum in San Jose, California, was awarded a $509,161 federal project grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' Museums for America (CFDA 45.301) program. The grant will support an organizational management initiative to strengthen staff professional development, career growth opportunities, and capacity for building an inclusive workplace. Key project activities include developing career ladders, implementing training across all staff levels, integrating inclusion and diversity goals into policies and practices, and creating a dashboard to measure progress. This two-year project will benefit the museum's 130 staff members by increasing job satisfaction, retention, and work performance, ultimately building a more resilient organization.

Project activities include developing career ladders so staff across the organization know their opportunities for growth; implementing training at every level to build awareness of the new career ladders and individual professional goals; integrating inclusion, diversity, equity, and access goals into board policies and practices and staff responsibilities; and creating a dashboard to measure progress. The project will strengthen and support the museum's 130 staff members who will benefit from professional development while increasing job satisfaction, retention, and work performance, building a more resilient organization.