After I take time to thank Ross for his kind words
(sorry for being late . . . my regular email programs
were obliterated by an upgrade of AOL 5.0--big
antitrust issue that is majorly annoying a number of
service providers including my own, so I spent
yesterday buying a big and better box with more bells
and whistles and better software--WHOOPEE!), I guess
I'd also have to ask, are you using the best available
resources available to you at fingertips on line?
I can pull resources if you need them--just say the
word--(thank God I was able to transfer my old
bookmarks and have all the resources I saved over the
last year and half on the lists dedicated to
development topics), but are you using the tools of
The Foundation Center and the National Register
online? There are a lot more, and I just got some
fresh ones last night in my Grants class to add to the
pot.
If you find you're spending more time searching and
less time finding, again, let me know, and I will give
you the link to the search primer I wrote. It was
done as a pro bono for friends in real life and
cyberia, and was so well received, a computer
professor friend to whom I sent it sent it to an
instructional specialist in Colorado, who contacted me
and asked if they could put it up on their web site.
Saved me a lot of time. Of course I said yes, and it
was up in 5 days.
The advantage to having it if you're having trouble
with searching is that it will do a couple of things
for you:
1. It will remind you you must first decide what
you're reall seeking.
2. It will give you many, many web sites to query,
depending on the type of info you're seeking,
including web sites to query if you haven't got a clue
what it is you're exactly looking for. Remember,
though, when you get there, that I've found an
additional search engine I would recommend to you in
terms of thoroughness and speed,
http://www.alltheweb.com Only 6-10% of the web was
believed to have been catalogued as of 3 months ago.
The above search engine is trying to remedy that.
3. It will give you boolean search terms you can use
(very easy, especially if you've ever done any work
with data bases). These are all cap words like AND,
IF, OR, NOT, as well as the symbols + or -. My
favorite boolean phrase is NEAR. I get my best hits
that way.
4. Finally, it will give you a pointer to my favorite
web source, Tourbus.
If somebody says yes, I'll post it to the list.
Knowledge, like artifacts, is meant to be shared. If
any of these tools would make your job and your life
easier, just say it. They were done to benefit
others, just as I have benefitted so much from what
the folks on this list have had to say . . . except
when you're harumphing!! LOL
Take care.
--- Ross Weeks <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Of course larger museums have fulltime fund raising
> staffs, even the ones
> that are government-funded. But the smaller ones
> (and there are far more of
> the smaller than the larger) simply do the best they
> can without a staff
> specialist. There is an ethical question to pose to
> the governments that
> fund museums: With nicely paid public employees on
> museum staffs to raise
> private money, what are you doing to the private
> museums that actually RELY
> on private giving? And why is it necessary for the
> museum on a state
> university campus to have its own fund raisers?
>
> As usual I agree with Indigo Nights, whoever you are
> -- the small museums
> without fund raising specialists don't need to go it
> alone. The biggest
> handicap may be the well-intentioned board members
> who suggest that if the
> museum simply applied to the Ford Foundation, it
> would be in hog heaven.
> They are the ones who drive their one-person
> director/fundraiser/grantswriter up the wall. The
> one-person ladies & gents
> need to spend their available time working
> "smarter," i.e., getting multiple
> little grants from little foundations. Boards can
> be impatient with that
> approach, however.
>
> Ross Weeks Jr.
> Tazewell VA.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Indigo Nights <[log in to unmask]>
>
> > Ladies and gents, may I cast a gentle vote for
> working
> > smarter and not harder?
> >
> > I realize many of you wear multiple hats, and
> funding
> > may fall into your bailiwick. However, you don't
> have
> > to do it without support.
> >
=====
Indigo Nights
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