Elizabeth, The Memorial Art Gallery has an advisory committee for a young professionals group called Young Friends of MAG (YFM). YFM exists to offer young professional MAG members, with or without young families, opportunities to enhance their lives by social/professional networking and to experience the arts in environments that are Fun, Entertaining, Engaging, and Educational. The advisory committee served as a resource for creative energy and talent for coming up with ideas to increase awareness about the museum and YFM programs, support fundraising, and identify potential partners in the community. All advisory committee members are members of the museum and one benefit they receive is free admission to most YFM events...since they usually work as a volunteer at the event. They usually meet once a month and subcommittees for special events meet as often as necessary. There isn't much interaction between the YFM advisory committee and our board, but the museum's board of managers is given an update on YFM happenings by the staff liaison at regularly scheduled board meetings. If you'd like, I can send more information directly to you (vs. the museum discussion list). --Debora Debora McDell Coordinator of Community Programs and Outreach Memorial Art Gallery 500 University Avenue Rochester, NY 14607 Phone: (585) 473-7720, x3034 Fax: (585) 473-6266 Email: [log in to unmask] -----Original Message----- From: elizabeth No [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2002 5:23 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Marketing Advisory Board Hello Everyone! I have been given a homework assignment that I need your help with. The historical society I am working with is beginning plans to improve our image in the public. We have many needs, most of which require us to increase our marketing efforts to raise awareness in the community about who we are and what we do. One weakness that we face is in our membership. Over 90% of our membership is over the age of 55. So, in response, our marketing committee of our board has developed a "Young Professionals" advisory board. Our original thought was that this board would help us raise awareness of our programs, facilities, etc. to younger people aged 18-40. We had a mixer to see what the interest might be. There were only 6 people, but they were all extremely interested, and promised to bring others. The problem we, as a committee, are facing is what do we do with them once we have them. So, I would like to ask the following questions. For those of you who have a similar committee: 1. What kinds of things does your "marketing" or "community" advisory board do when the meet? 2. What are the benefits to being an advisory board members and what incentives do you offer to get them to come/stay? 3. How does your board interact with your permanent board and your public? 4. How often do you meet? I know there are many more questions, but this will help us to begin thinking of them. I hope that I explained this well enough. If you need more information, please feel free to call me or e-mail me. I could really use some help on this. Thanks, Elizabeth Nohra Mahoning Valley Historical Society Youngstown, Ohio 330-743-2589 _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx ========================================================= Important Subscriber Information: The Museum-L FAQ file is located at http://www.finalchapter.com/museum-l-faq/ . You may obtain detailed information about the listserv commands by sending a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "help" (without the quotes). If you decide to leave Museum-L, please send a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "Signoff Museum-L" (without the quotes). ========================================================= Important Subscriber Information: The Museum-L FAQ file is located at http://www.finalchapter.com/museum-l-faq/ . You may obtain detailed information about the listserv commands by sending a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "help" (without the quotes). If you decide to leave Museum-L, please send a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "Signoff Museum-L" (without the quotes).