Workshops on fund raising

Workshop Will Show How to Augment Fund Raising Using Collections
Care

As federal funds for cultural institutions are increasingly
threatened in the current political climate, institutions must
expand their fund raising to new horizons.  So the National
Institute for the Conservation of Cultural Property (NIC) has
developed Capitalize on Collections Care: A Fund-Raising Workshop, a
one-day program to explore how museums, libraries and historic
preservation organizations can make a fund-raising case using
collections care.  The program focuses on the private sector and
state and local governments as new sources of support for
collections care, conservation and preservation.  The program will
be offered in three locations during the winter and spring of 1997:

Westmoreland Museum of American Art
Greensburg, Pennsylvania
February 25
Cosponsored by the Pennsylvania Federation of Museums and Historical
Organizations, the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission and
the Westmoreland Museum of American Art

Cincinnati Art Museum
Cincinnati, Ohio
March 14
Cosponsored by the Cincinnati Art Museum

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Richmond, Virginia
April 18
Cosponsored by the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

Capitalize on Collections Care will demonstrate how institutions can
creatively incorporate collections care, conservation and
preservation into fund-raising activities.  Collections care can be
an effective tool for raising money and invigorating a fund-raising
program.  Conservation has unique visual qualities that can motivate
potential donors by showing them tangible results of financial
support.  The program teaches creative approaches to integrating
collections care into basic fund-raising strategies such as annual
appeals, capital campaigns, earned income, planned giving and
adopt-an-object programs.

For further information and registration materials, please contact:

    Karen Groce
    NIC
    3299 K Street, NW  Suite 602
    Washington, DC  20007
    202-625-1495
    Fax: 202-625-1485
    kgroce<-a t->nic< . >org

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