Program and registration information for the upcoming workshops in
Portland, Oregon, Fundraising for Preservation and Conservation, and
Telling the Story: Promoting Cultural Collections, is now available on
our website at http://www.ccaha.org/workshop_cal.php
Fundraising for Preservation and Conservation
Thursday, October 12, 2006
Telling the Story: Promoting Cultural Collections
Friday, October 13, 2006
Sponsored by the Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts, and
Co-sponsored by the Portland Area Library System (PORTALS) and OCLC
Western Service Center, Digital & Preservation Services Program
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
US Banks 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.
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
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]
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