New: 4-Part Web Conference!
Straight Talk: Museums Rising to the Financial Challenge
March 18-19, 2009
1-2:30 p.m. and 3-4:30 p.m. (Eastern)
In collaboration with LearningTimes
Agenda Registration Fellowships FAQs Online Forum
Financial challenges are confronting all of us, individuals, institutions and the field itself. Budgets are being cut, programs scaled back, staff levels reduced. What is the impact on our work and our lives and how do we respond? Join this timely four-part webinar series of 90-minute programs, each exploring issues crucial to museums in these challenging times: retrenchment, fundraising, managing human resources, and communications strategies. Benefit from new ideas and strategies, reliable information and resource-sharing. Let’s rise to the challenge together! Fellowships available.
Web conference moderators:
Greg Stevens, Assistant Director for Professional Education, American Association of Museums
Mary Case, Co-founder, Qm2
Jonathan Finkelstein, Founder and Executive Producer, LearningTimes
Agenda
Part 1: Retrenchment, Reinvention, Realignment
More information coming soon.
Part 2: Fundraising in Challenging Economic Times
Presenters:
Eleanor T. Cicerchi, Director, Signature Campaign, The Newark Museum
James R. Hackney, Jr., CFRE, Managing Partner, Alexander Haas Martin & Partners
Carl G. Hamm, CFRE, Vice President, Fund Development and Marketing, Fort Worth Museum of Science and History
Laura MacDonald, CFRE, President, Benefactors Counsel
Suzette Sherman, Director of Membership and Visitor Services, Philadelphia Museum of Art
Part 3: Managing People in Tough Times
Presenters:
Wendy Luke, Principal, Luke Weil & Associates
Part 4: Communicating in Economically Challenging Times
Presenters:
Timothy W. Andrews, President, Andrews Creative Worldwide
Phillip Bahar, Chief of Operations & Administration, Walker Art Center
Amy Ritter Cowen, Vice President, Marketing & Public Relations, Shedd Aquarium
John G. Rodman, Director of Museum Experience, Newport Mansions
Registration
Four-part series:
$169 AAM member/$269 non-member
Individual sessions:
$89 AAM Member/$189 Non-member
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Choose to learn from your desk or build community (and lower the cost per person) by inviting a group of co-workers to learn with you (e.g., around a computer monitor in an office or in a conference room setting). Hosting a webinar is also a great way to connect with colleagues from other institutions in your area! Please note: beyond a group experience, you will not be able to share your username and password with multiple people for simultaneous use.
Register now online or download the registration form and fax it to AAM Professional Education at (202) 289-6578. Or mail it with full payment to AAM Professional Education, 1575 Eye St. N.W., Suite 400, Washington, DC 20005-1105. Note: Registration closes on Tuesday, March 17, 2009 at 5 p.m. (EDT). No refunds will be given once registration has been processed.
Registration includes:
- Access to the live webinar/ series
- On-demand access to the recorded webinar until September 2009
- Access to the webinar forum and resources, including the webinar PowerPoint presentations
You may view the webinar/ series using your unique login and password.
Fellowships
AAM and the AAM Standing Professional Committees (SPC) are pleased to offer a limited number of fellowships to qualified individual AAM and SPC members for the Straight Talk: Museums Rising to the Financial Challenge webinar series on March 18 and 19, 2009. Fellowships are offered by these SPCs:
- Development and Membership Committee (DAM) for the Fundraising in Financially Challenging Times webinar (March 18)
- Museum Management Committee (MMC) for the Downsizing and Retrenchment webinar (March 18) or the Managing People in Tough Times webinar (March 19)
- PR and Marketing Committee (PRAM) for the Making Every Dollar Count: Communications in Economically Challenging Times webinar (March 19)
- Small Museum Administrators Committee (SMAC-AAM) for each of the four webinars
Each SPC fellowship recipient will receive one complimentary $89 registration to one session of the webinar series. At the discretion of the fellow, this fellowship may be used to offset the cost of the full webinar series ($169). Deadline for fellowship applications is Friday, February 20, 2009. Award notifications will be made by Friday, March 6.
Click here for more information and the fellowship application form.
Online Forum
The web conference learning experience will be extended using the Museums Rising to the Financial Challenge Forum (also known as the “Survival Forum”) on the AAM website, exclusively for registrants, presenters and AAM members. The forum will serve as an information and entry portal for web conference participants. Reminder: The forum is accessible only to AAM members and web conference registrants.
FAQs
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