Overview

This clear, accessible manual is designed specifically for people running the thousands of small museums, historic houses, and historic sites across the U.S. and Canada. Typically, these smaller institutions lack endowments and are under-funded. They also tend to be understaffed, so that their administrators wear many hats: curator, researcher, building manager, accountant, and fundraiser, to name a few. This guide will help small-museum administrators perform their jobs more efficiently by teaching them how to secure funding for their programs and institutions.

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Afraid of fundraising? Don't be! Salvatore Cilella takes the fear out of raising money not only for small museums, but also for medium size museums, students of museum studies, and staff at any not-for-profit organization. Cilella provides the essential and common sense steps to enable any organization to maximize their fundraising potential. Fundraising for Small Museums describes an integrated planning process that goes far beyond grant writing to incorporate everything from basic board giving to cultivating transformational gifts. A veteran museum director with decades of experience and a sense of humor, Cilella offers helpful hints and encouragement throughout that make you feel that he is your personal fundraising consultant. The book's illustrations reflect the author's background as a historian and also suggest that not only is successful fundraising key to a museum's success, when done well, it can also be great fun!--Sorin, Gretchen Sullivan

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Salvatore G. Cilella, Jr. is president and CEO of the Atlanta Historical Society and has spent much of his life raising money for various organizations, including the Smithsonian Institution and Columbia Museum of Art.

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