There was a graduate student doing work on the relationship between communities
and the Chicago Historical Society a couple of years ago. She asked a similar
question to yours, and got lots of responses talking about different community
advisory boards. She did a session at last year's AAM (or was it the year
before that?). Her name is Catherine Lewis; I forgot her academic
affiliation. Good luck!
Kathy Condon
Community Project Coordinator/Senior Developer
Brooklyn Children's Museum