The HRC thanks Laura Casey for serving as a guest author for the following entry. Laura has worked in the museum field for fifteen years. She is currently Coordinator of the Museum Services Program at the Texas Historical Commission. Before joining the Historical Commission in 2004, she was the director of museums in Illinois and Kansas. Ten years ago I never dreamed of the Internet serving as a repository for instructional movies for museums....
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The HRC Web site, that's who!And what a year it has been: 85 posts, nearly 8,400 visits to the HRC Web site, and just under 23,000 total HRC Web pages viewed.210 people have signed up to receive the monthly HRC Spotlight e-newsletter, 136 people have become facebook fans of the CHC Heritage Resource Center, and 88 people receive weekly feedburner e-mail updates.Here are just a few highlights:With 218 unique page views, David Rau's exploration of...
The stock market has started to rise. Unemployment figures are dropping. Think the worst of The Great Recession has already happened for non-profits?Think again.While signs indicate that the economy has begun to stabilize, the prospects for the non-profit community remain bleak reports Sandra Wood in a study commissioned by the Connecticut Humanities Council titled "Philanthropic Funding Realities in the New Economy: An Assessment of Funding Opportunities and Challenges in 2010."Wood's report looks at the global...
The HRC thanks Sarah Griswold for serving as guest author for the following entry. Sarah has been working in the museum field for nearly 20 years as a curator and director. She is currently an independent consultant and is working at the Gunn Memorial Museum in Washington as curatorial assistant. Sarah is part of the Connecticut Peer Advisor Network through the Connecticut Commission of Culture and Tourism and is a consulting principal for Ericson Business...
Looking for guidance on all sorts of management and funding issues? If you have not discovered the Qm2 website (and I don't mean the luxury liner) you should take a look at Qm2.org. Qm2 is a group of consultants who don't share an office, but share a mission to help nonprofit organizations, particularly museums and cultural groups, build successful futures by implementing powerful concepts of learning, leadership, management, and design. Although they each operate their...
