{"id":573,"date":"2024-11-12T21:07:40","date_gmt":"2024-11-12T21:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cffm-fcam.ca\/website_6281811e\/?page_id=573"},"modified":"2024-11-12T21:07:40","modified_gmt":"2024-11-12T21:07:40","slug":"our-story","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cffm-fcam.ca\/website_6281811e\/our-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Story"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"\">Since its foundation in 1977, the Canadian Federation of Friends of Museums (CFFM) has\u00a0been the national voice for the over 100,000 volunteers who support museums and heritage sites throughout Canada. CFFM knows that volunteers are at the heart of our museums. From day-to-day operations to fundraising and research, volunteers play many roles in heritage organizations, and they are vital members of the museum community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Friends of Museums are \u201cthose who contribute in any way to the support of museums, to their development and to their public presence and influence. They act on a voluntary and non-remunerative basis. Their support is moral, financial, or consists of voluntary work or expertise.\u201d\u00a0CFFM members, therefore, include benefactors, donors, volunteers, board members, trustees, museum members and all those who support heritage organizations across the country with their donations, their actions and their expertise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">We are proud to be under the patronage of the Governor General of Canada, with whom we partner to nominate museum volunteers for the prestigious Sovereign\u2019s Medal for volunteers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"nfd-text-faded wp-block-group has-global-padding is-content-justification-left is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-7526a028 wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since its foundation in 1977, the Canadian Federation of Friends of Museums (CFFM) has\u00a0been the national voice for the over 100,000 volunteers who support museums and heritage sites throughout Canada. CFFM knows that volunteers are at the heart of our museums. From day-to-day operations to fundraising and research, volunteers play many roles in heritage organizations, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-573","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cffm-fcam.ca\/website_6281811e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cffm-fcam.ca\/website_6281811e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cffm-fcam.ca\/website_6281811e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cffm-fcam.ca\/website_6281811e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cffm-fcam.ca\/website_6281811e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cffm-fcam.ca\/website_6281811e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":574,"href":"https:\/\/cffm-fcam.ca\/website_6281811e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/573\/revisions\/574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cffm-fcam.ca\/website_6281811e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}