Susan, please send me your template on strategic planning for small
museums:
        Cecilia Bond
        %Nettle Creek Valley Museum
        PO Box 126
        Hagerstown, IN  47346

It sounds like it will be a great help.  Thanks.

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> From: Susan M. Ward <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Strategic planning
> Date: Sunday, February 02, 1997 11:10 AM
>
> >I am still interested in receiving sample plans from small history
museums.
> Could it be that most small museums do not have strategic plans?  Or was
my
> request lost in the budget size discussion?
> Museum of Early Trades & Crafts, Elaine Clements Zopes, Director<
>
> We have developed a strategic planning template that we would be willing
to
> share with anyone interested.  It opens with a series of pre-planning
questions;
> walks through isses, goals, objectives, strategies, and tactics (with
brief
> examples of each); and ends with an approach for on-going communication
and
> evaluation of the plan, as well as a series of end-of year/rproject
questions.
> We generally use it as one part of our on-site consulting about master
and
> strategic planning, so by itself it is not all encompassing, but it may
be a
> tool to add to the other planning methods a museum is using to create a
> strategic plan.
>
> For anyone that wants a copy, email us your snail mail address off-list.
>
> Susan Ward
> Heritage Communications
> 615-661-6336 ph, 615-371-8774 fax
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