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	<description>News, activities, and ideas for National Trust Historic Sites.</description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 22:24:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>You&#8217;re Not Alone:  Non-profits in Massachusetts overstretched, underfunded</title>
		<link>http://historicsites.wordpress.com/2008/07/08/massachusetts-non-profits-overstretched-underfunded/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 13:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Max van Balgooy</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Many nonprofit organizations (which I assume includes historic sites) in Massachusetts are underfunded, overstretched, and vulnerable to cuts by state government, a new report from the Boston Foundation finds.
The report, Passion &#38; Purpose: Raising the Fiscal Fitness Bar for Massachusetts Nonprofits, includes recommendations that address significant financial and organizational weaknesses in the state&#8217;s nonprofit sector as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>London&#8217;s Benjamin Franklin House</title>
		<link>http://historicsites.wordpress.com/2008/07/07/londons-benjamin-franklin-house/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 14:45:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Max van Balgooy</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Historic House Museums]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[President Lincoln's Cottage]]></category>

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I&#8217;m in England for the Attingham Summer School but arrived a day early to get a head start on overcoming jet lag and to visit the new &#8220;Benjamin Franklin House &#8220;&#8211;the only place in world where Franklin lived that still survives (that&#8217;s right, all his houses in the US are gone&#8211;how&#8217;s that for a preservation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cells and Sites: How Historic Sites are Using Cell Phone Tours</title>
		<link>http://historicsites.wordpress.com/2008/07/03/cells-and-sites-how-historic-sites-are-using-cell-phone-tours/</link>
		<comments>http://historicsites.wordpress.com/2008/07/03/cells-and-sites-how-historic-sites-are-using-cell-phone-tours/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 18:05:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Neuhauser</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Internet]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Interpretation]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[PreservationNation]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[cell phones]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Chesterwood]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Decatur House]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Tours]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Woodrow Wilson House]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Cell phones have revolutionized the way people communicate, affecting many areas of life, including historic sites. A popular application of cell phone technology is now being used at several of the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s historic sites. Chesterwood, Decatur House, and Woodrow Wilson House provide cell phone tours, similar to standard audio tours offered [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Calendar of Events for NTHS at the 2008 National Preservation Conference</title>
		<link>http://historicsites.wordpress.com/2008/07/02/tulsa-conference-events-for-sites/</link>
		<comments>http://historicsites.wordpress.com/2008/07/02/tulsa-conference-events-for-sites/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 13:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Max van Balgooy</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Governance]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Preservation Conference]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Site Boards]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Site Directors]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The upcoming National Preservation Conference is hosting a series of events exclusively for National Trust Historic Sites.  Please add these to your calendars:
Tuesday, Oct. 21, 2008:
9:00 am-5:00 pm  Site Directors Meeting I
Wednesday, Oct. 22:
9:00 am-12:00 noon  Site Directors Meeting II
Thursday, Oct. 23:
7:00-8:30 pm  Reception for Site Board members
Friday, Oct. 24:
7:15-8:15 am [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reports from the (English) field</title>
		<link>http://historicsites.wordpress.com/2008/07/02/report-england-introduction/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 13:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Max van Balgooy</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Collections]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Interpretation]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Training]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Attingham Summer School]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[England]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This month I&#8217;ll be joining a group of fifty professionals from historic sites and museums from around the world in the Attingham Summer School.  For three weeks we&#8217;ll be studying and discussing the preservation and interpretation of the English country house (including collections and landscapes) from the 13th century to the present day with field [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Celebrate Independence Day with a Visit to a National Trust Historic Site</title>
		<link>http://historicsites.wordpress.com/2008/07/01/celebrate-independence-day-with-a-visit-to-a-national-trust-historic-site/</link>
		<comments>http://historicsites.wordpress.com/2008/07/01/celebrate-independence-day-with-a-visit-to-a-national-trust-historic-site/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:20:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Neuhauser</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Buildings]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Interpretation]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Cliveden]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[East Side Tenement Museum]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Fourth of July]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Historic Sites]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Several events are taking place at National Trust Historic Sites to celebrate the Fourth of July.The East Side Tenement Museum, located on New York City’s Manhattan Island is hosting tours of their historic tenement building from 11:00 am to 4:30pm on July 4, 2008. The Lower East Side Tenement Museum preserves and interprets an historic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Better Boards Workshops exclusively for Historic Sites</title>
		<link>http://historicsites.wordpress.com/2008/07/01/better-boards-workshops-historic-sites-wisconsin/</link>
		<comments>http://historicsites.wordpress.com/2008/07/01/better-boards-workshops-historic-sites-wisconsin/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 13:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Max van Balgooy</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Gaylord Building]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Villa Finale]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Esther Hall will lead a Better Boards workshop for historic sites at the Inn at Woodlake in Kohler,  Wisconsin on November 6-8, 2008.
This workshop is limited to six Sites and each Site will need to send six people: the Site Director and five carefully selected Boardmembers (e.g., Chair, rising chair, etc).  Thanks to a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Classics at Brucemore reinvented for 2008</title>
		<link>http://historicsites.wordpress.com/2008/06/30/brucemore-classics-reinvented/</link>
		<comments>http://historicsites.wordpress.com/2008/06/30/brucemore-classics-reinvented/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 13:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Max van Balgooy</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Disaster planning]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[PreservationNation]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Brucemore]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Cedar Rapids Flood]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Instead of the scheduled Classics performance of Lysistrata, Brucemore (a National Trust Historic Site in Iowa) is partnering with Liar’s Theater, Theatre Cedar Rapids, SPT Theatre, Urban Theater Project of Iowa, and Legion Arts to create one of the largest collaborative productions the area has ever experienced. The new Classics production is Moving Home and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Charitable Giving Reaches New Record in 2007</title>
		<link>http://historicsites.wordpress.com/2008/06/26/charitable-giving-record-2007/</link>
		<comments>http://historicsites.wordpress.com/2008/06/26/charitable-giving-record-2007/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 13:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Max van Balgooy</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Fundraising]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[U.S. charitable giving reached an estimated $306.4 billion in  2007, exceeding $300 billion for the first time, a new report  from the Giving USA Foundation finds.
According to Giving USA 2008, which is researched and written  by the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University, every type  of public charity saw gains in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reasons to hate (and love) I.T.</title>
		<link>http://historicsites.wordpress.com/2008/06/23/it-hate-and-love/</link>
		<comments>http://historicsites.wordpress.com/2008/06/23/it-hate-and-love/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 13:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Max van Balgooy</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Governance]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Internet]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Susan Cramm has recently posted a couple articles on her blog at Harvard Business Publishing that help put words to the subtle reasons so many of us are struggling with computers, the Internet, and information technology (and perhaps PreservationNation).  Admittedly it&#8217;s a bit provocative, but it helps categorize so many of the issues I [...]]]></description>
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