Posted in Education, Hispanic history, Marketing, Resources, tagged National Preservation Conference, School programs on September 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Some quick tips, strategies, and reminders for the planning events for this month and next:
Schools begin to visit Sites for field trips, but most typically occur in the late spring.
The school year will start soon but typically teachers have little time for thinking about anything except what needs to be accomplished to get their classroom [...]
Posted in Governance, tagged Better Boards, National Preservation Conference on October 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Esther Hall’s “Preview of Better Boards” at the National Preservation Conference in Tulsa provided an engaging glimpse into the longer workshop offered by NTHP’s Center for Preservation Leadership. She gave us lots of practical tips, ideas, and strategies for creating a healthy board that everyone wants to serve on. For those of you who [...]
Posted in Buildings, Education, Governance, Interpretation, Marketing, Resources, Sustainability, Training, tagged National Preservation Conference on October 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In the past, an area of the National Preservation Conference Exhibit Hall had been set aside for local non-profits to display brochures and other organizational materials that registrants may pick up and take home with them. Lots of stuff to carry, sort, and often toss so we hope we’ve found a better way.
This year, as [...]
Posted in Governance, Site Directors, tagged National Preservation Conference on August 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The schedule of events for Directors of National Trust Historic Sites for the 2008 National Preservation Conference (Tulsa, OK) is:
Posted in Governance, Training, tagged Building Better Boards, Forum Journal, National Preservation Conference, The Mount, Urban Institute on June 4, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Some recent events at non-profit organizations (including historic sites) question my faith in many boards to adequately take responsibility and avoid the extremes of negligence and micro-management. The Mount, the home of Edith Wharton in western Massachusetts, is facing financial difficulties so severe that it is may be bankrupt by the end of the [...]
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