Organizational Excellence
Ensuring Mount Auburn’s long-term
financial sustainability is a major initiative
of the Cemetery’s current Strategic Plan.
Staff and trustees continue to implement
new initiatives and strategies that will
grow both annual earned revenue and
contributed support.
To prepare for its future as an active
cemetery, Mount Auburn has developed
a new Cemetery Services business plan
that emphasizes a more diverse choice of
cremation and end-of-life services that
will supplement the sale of new burial
space. As staff prepare to offer new services
with the reopening of Bigelow Chapel in
FY2019, attention remains focused on the
development of new burial space that meets
the needs of current families.
The Cemetery’s business model also relies
increasingly on contributed support,
raised by the Friends of Mount Auburn
to provide funding for special projects and
general operations. Many of the projects
highlighted throughout this report are only
possible with the support raised through
the Friends.