The Center for Curatorial Leadership, founded in 2007 by Agnes Gund and Elizabeth Easton, acknowledges the increasing need for curators to learn new skills that are essential in the museum climate of the 21st Century. These skills combine traditional curatorial connoisseurship and art historical scholarship with administrative, managerial, and fundraising expertise. Simply stated, the aim of the program is to create a new kind of curator, one who is able to take responsibility for the art in his or her care, and who is also capable of handling the internal and external managerial responsibilities integral to their institution. The Center is located in New York City, and draws upon the rich resources of museums and academic institutions in New York and elsewhere.