> However, choose your firm or consultant through a
>selection process if at all possible.  They may not be familiar with
>museums, their missions, their activities, etc....In addition, you need
>a fair assessment, not an assessment that is predetermined.


We hired a fundraising firm that specialized in museums and arts
organizations to do a feasibility study for our capital campaign.  We wanted
to raise about $8 million, and their study came out that we could only
reasonably expect $2.5 million.  We did the campaign anyway and raised $7
million, and are well on our way to that last million by the end of December
'97--we WILL get it.

So much for feasibility studies.  All it meant was that we had to work ever
harder for what we wanted, but we got it anyway.


Julia Moore
Indianapolis Art Center