City of Camden Kiosk Completion This Winter
While we wait to see the great work that Night Kitchen Interactive has completed for the second and third phases of the Heritage Tourism Interactive Touch Screen Kiosk in City Hall Camden, we have been writing grant applications to several government and nonprofit funders to translate all of the fantastic historic content for the Kiosk into Spanish. We learned in our research that slightly more than 50% of Camden residents speak Spanish at home. This made it imperative that the...
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Video presentation about New Solutions for House Museums, November 4, 2022
This April, we spoke on a panel with Ken Turino of Historic New England at the Museum Association for New York State at their annual conference in Corning, NY about our respective books that highlight new opportunities for historic sites. Our talks focused on financial sustainability for historic sites and used several case studies from Historic New England, where Ken is the Manager of Community Engagement and Exhibitions. We spoke about four case studies contained in New Solutions for...
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Morris County NJ Historic Preservation Trust Strategic Planning
This spring we worked with a longstanding regional historic preservation organization, the Morris County Historic Preservation Trust. They were seeking guidance in reorganizing their regional historic preservation group to prepare for the eventual acquisition of a historic property in Morristown, NJ, and related assets. We facilitated in-person and Zoom meetings with the board of trustees at which they considered their vision for the organization’s future and developed strategic planning...
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Roebling Museum Feasibility Study for Workers Rowhouse
We have started work with the Roebling Museum in Florence, NJ on a “community-driven adaptive reuse feasibility study for a company town worker's rowhouse.” This work includes two Audience Research components and an Assessment of the Heritage Tourism Potential for the small brick row home at 101 Second Avenue. The Roebling Museum purchased the property last year to better interpret life at the Roebling Company in Roebling, NJ. The New Jersey Historic...
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Turning Supporters into Donors at Pennsylvania Downtown Conference
This June we spoke again at the Pennsylvania Downtown Center conference held in Harrisburg, PA on two of our favorite fundraising topics, “Boosting Net Revenue for Fundraising Events” and “Turning Supporters into Donors.” The latter topic comes from consulting work we undertook during the pandemic for Sheri Stuart at Oregon Main Street. The blurb said it all. The new Oregon Main Street Handbook “Turning Supporters into Donors” will help you...
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