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Fundraising and Promoting Cultural Collections
Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts presents:
Fundraising for Preservation and Conservation
Thursday, October 12, 2006
Telling the Story: Promoting Cultural Collections
Friday, October 13, 2006
Portland, OR
Co-sponsored by:
Portland Area Library System (PORTALS) and
OCLC Western Service Center, Digital & Preservation Services Program
About the Workshops
Fundraising for Preservation and Conservation
This workshop focuses on the special needs of your special collections. In order to provide optimum care for your collections, should you invest in planning? In stabilizing the environment? In cataloging and describing? In digitization? Or in conservation treatment? Often, the honest answer is "all of the above," but since this broad response can lead to paralysis, it is important to identify a starting place. One key to moving ahead is the development of a funding strategy for preservation.
On the federal level, funding sources are available to move your cultural organization ahead with preservation initiatives. These federal grants can leverage other donations, bringing more money and attention to your collections while ensuring that the treasures in your special collections will be available for the appreciation of future generations.
Through thoughtful planning and effective grant writing, your organization can be competitive in applying for high-profile federal grants. This workshop will examine the planning process that reviewers want to see in place and the components that make a grant request compelling. Examples will be drawn from success stories at museums, libraries, and archives.
Telling the Story: Promoting Cultural Collections
This workshop will focus on strategies for museum, archives, and library professionals to effectively use marketing and public relations to tell the stories of their collections throughout the year, and not just during special exhibitions. It will present the basic components of a public relations program, examine strategies that have worked for other institutions, and tackle some challenging situations drawn from the audience. In addition, a panel of museum professionals will be on hand to share their personal success stories.
Location & Time
U.S. Bank Room
Central Library
Multnomah County Library
801 SW 10th Avenue
Portland, OR
9:00 AM - 9:30 AM Registration and refreshments
9:30 AM - 4 PM Workshop
Speakers
Lee Price, Director of Development at the Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts, has worked as a fundraising and marketing consultant for many regional and national cultural institutions. Over the past 18 years, he has helped to raise over $30 million in federal, state, and private funding for nonprofit organizations. He has written successful grant requests for preservation funding from the Institute for Museum and Library Services, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, and Save America's Treasures.
Keltie Hawkins, Marketing and Communications Manager at the Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts, has served as a key player in creating a newsletter for the Center, redesigning the Center's website, garnering increased press coverage, and producing a video in collaboration with WHYY, Philadelphia's local public television station, on the conservation treatment of John James Audubon's Birds of America. Before coming to the Center, she worked as a Marketing Assistant and as a Sales and Exhibits Coordinator at the Brookings Institution, as Marketing Associate at Counterpoint Press (Washington, DC), and as an Editor for Running Press in Philadelphia.
Brochure & Registration
Workshop brochure and registration form can be accessed at:
<http://www.ccaha.org/workshop_cal.php> (download may take a few moments)
Registration Deadline
Thursday, September 28, 2006
Please Note:
If you have special needs, please contact CCAHA three weeks prior to the workshop date so that accommodations can be made.
Funding
This workshop is partially subsidized through funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
For information about CCAHA, its programs and services, please visit our website at www.ccaha.org or contact CCAHA's Preservation Services Office at 215.545.0613 or [log in to unmask]
Kelly Ferguson
Conservation Center for Art & Historic Artifacts
264 South 23rd Street
Philadelphia, PA 19103
P: 215.545.0613
F: 215.735.9313
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www.ccaha.org
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