Online course on fundraising

MS 302: Fundraising for Collections Care
Instructor: Helen Alten
March 7 - April 1, 2011
Price: $475
Location: Online at <URL:http://www.museumclasses.org>

Description: Strapped for cash? Can't see how you can implement
collections preservation ideas when you can't pay the light bill?
This workshop introduces funding options for a range of collections
care needs. The class combines lecture and practicum sessions.
Students will learn about different forms of fund raising, how to
find funding sources for their institution, how to write successful
proposals and how to build on success. Each student will complete a
draft grant request before the end of the class.

Logistics: Participants in Fundraising for Collections Care work at
individual paces through seven sections. Instructor Helen Alten is
available at scheduled times during the course for email support.
Resources include forums and scheduled online chats, PowerPoint
lectures, reading materials and lecture notes and links to relevant
web sites.

The Instructor:

    Helen Alten, is the Director of Northern States Conservation
    Center and its chief Objects Conservator. For nearly 30 years
    she has been involved in objects conservation, starting as a
    pre-program intern at the Oriental Institute in Chicago and the
    University Museum of the University of Pennsylvania. She
    completed a degree in Archaeological Conservation and Materials
    Science from the Institute of Archaeology at the University of
    London in England. She has built and run conservation
    laboratories in Bulgaria, Montana, Greece, Alaska and Minnesota.
    She has a broad understanding of three-dimensional materials and
    their deterioration, wrote and edited the quarterly Collections
    Caretaker, maintains the popular
    <URL:http://www.collectioncare.org> web site, lectures
    throughout the United States on collection care topics, was
    instrumental in developing a state-wide protocol for disaster
    response in small Minnesota museums, has written, received and
    reviewed grants for NEH and IMLS, worked with local foundations
    funding one of her pilot programs, and is always in search of
    the perfect museum mannequin.

    She has published chapters on conservation and deterioration of
    archeological glass with the Materials Research Society and the
    York Archaeological Trust, four chapters on different mannequin
    construction techniques in Museum Mannequins: A Guide for
    Creating the Perfect Fit (2002), preservation planning,
    policies, forms and procedures needed for a small museum in The
    Minnesota Alliance of Local History Museums' Collection
    Initiative Manual, and is co-editor of the penultimate book on
    numbering museum collections (still in process) by the Gilcrease
    Museum in Oklahoma. Helen Alten has been a Field Education
    Director, Conservator, and staff trainer. She began working with
    people from small, rural, and tribal museums while as the state
    conservator for Montana and Alaska. Helen currently conducts
    conservation treatments and operates a conservation center in
    Charleston, WV and St. Paul, MN.

Brad Bredehoft for Helen Alten
Northern States Conservation Center


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