Overview

Fundraising and Strategic Planning: Innovative Approaches for Museums appraises strategies museums employ to raise funds including admission prices, membership categories, donor and affinity groups, and specialized event-driven efforts while examining new crowdfunding models such as Kickstarter, Indiegogo, and Piggybackr. This book examines a range of ambitious undertakings and the means by which museums and cultural organizations achieve them. Each of the case studies in this volume focuses on the cornerstones to museum operations: strategic planning and fundraising. For example, Carl G. Hamm describes how Saint Louis Art Museum moved from a capital campaign into a sustainable stream of increased annual giving. Vicky U. Lee narrates the transformation of abandoned, elevated rail yards into an exciting, well-travelled (and highly-tagged and pinned) public amenity, the High Line. While not a museum per se, the High Line and its public art amenities offers much to the story of collecting institutions, as well as to the framework of the public-private partnership. The Innovative Approaches for Museums series offers case studies, written by scholars and practitioners from museums, galleries, and other institutions, that showcase the original, transformative, and sometimes wholly re-invented methods, techniques, systems, theories, and actions that demonstrate innovative work being done in the museum and cultural sector throughout the world. The authors come from a variety of institutions—in size, type, budget, audience, mission, and collection scope. Each volume offers ideas and support to those working in museums while serving as a resource and primer, as much as inspiration, for students and the museum staff and faculty training future professionals who will further develop future innovative approaches. Contributions by: Karen Coutts, Mike Deetsch, Nancy Enterline, Karen Gillenwater, Amy Gilman, Carl G. Hamm, Greg Hardison, Jill Hartz, Peter J. Kim, Vicky U. Lee, James G. Leventhal, Melissa A. Russo, and Irina Zeylikovich

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Author:   Juilee Decker
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:   Rowman & Littlefield
Dimensions:   Width: 15.40cm , Height: 0.80cm , Length: 22.80cm
Weight:   0.191kg
ISBN:  

9781442238770

ISBN 10:   1442238771
Pages:   124
Publication Date:   15 July 2015
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"Introduction by Juilee Decker Chapter 1: BOOM! Crowdfunding the First Exhibit of the Museum of Food & Drink Peter J. Kim, Museum of Food and Drink Chapter 2: Public Art and Public Support Karen Gillenwater, Carnegie Center for Art and History Chapter 3: Crowdfunding the Museum: Engaging Program Constituents in Resource Development Melissa A. Russo, Chabot Space & Science Center Chapter 4: Analysis and Interpretation: How Camp ArtyFact Solved a Programming Problem Mike Deetsch and Greg Hardison, Kentucky Historical Society Chapter 5: ""Member Plus” to “Ocean Advocate”: Leveraging Market Research to Build a Membership Program that Supports the Annual Fund Nancy Enterline, Monterey Bay Aquarium Chapter 6: Check It Out! A Case Study of The New Children’s Museum’s Program of Circulating Membership Cards in Public Libraries Karen Coutts, The New Children’s Museum Chapter 7: Leveraging the Public-Private Partnership to Transform an Abandoned, Elevated Railway into New York City’s Most Exciting Public Amenity Vicky U. Lee, Friends of the High Line Chapter 8: Building for the Future: Converting Capital Campaign Success into Sustainable Major Gifts Carl G. Hamm, Saint Louis Art Museum Chapter 9: Successful Fund-Raising Strategies for the Academic Museum Jill Hartz, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art Chapter 10: Relevance & Twenty-First Century Fundraising Fundamentals James G. Leventhal and Irina Zeylikovich, The Contemporary Jewish Museum & Bay Area Discovery Museum Chapter 11: Institutionalizing Innovation at the Toledo Museum of Art Amy Gilman, Toledo Museum of Art Index About the Contributors About the Editor"

Reviews

A must-read brimming with thought fuel and expert insight on strategic planning and fundraising for all forward-facing museums. -- Colleen Dilenschneider, Chief Market Engagement Officer, IMPACTS

Author Information

Juilee Decker is an associate professor of Museum Studies at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) where she teaches courses focusing on museums and technology so as to bring theory and praxis together in the classroom environment. Decker earned her Ph.D. from Case Western Reserve University. Her research interests and curation include the construction of public and private collections as well as the subjects of public art, commemoration, and memory. Decker’s recent curatorial activity includes “A Passionate Pursuit: The Milward Collection,” an exhibition addressing the formation of a private collection of more than 1000 works of art (2012); “Reflections on a Louisville Landmark,” a juried show and an exhibition of historic maps, photographs, and texts for the Louisville Visual Art Association; and “Virginia Woolf and the Natural World,” an international exhibition to coincide with the 20th annual Wolf conference (2010). She has worked as a public art consultant and advisor for more than 15 years and has managed several public and private collections of public art. Since 2008, she has served as editor of Collections: A Journal for Museum and Archives Professionals, a peer-reviewed journal published by Rowman and Littlefield.

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