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Free December Webinars

Wild Apricot, which makes online membership software, has a really great blog. Each month, they do a roundup of free online webinars. (I think I’ve mentioned them before. They do a really great job.)

Here’s this month’s.

Highlights include:

Playing by the Rules: Creating an Effective Volunteer Handbook

5 Trends in Technologoy that will Shape a New Reality for Nonprofits

How Strategic Public Relations Can Help Nonprofits Break Through the Media Clutter

How to Make Your Grant Proposal Stand Out from the Pack

Free e-Strategy for Your Nonprofit

Victorian Summer School

The Victorian Society in America Summer Schools: Newport, RI, and London, England

STUDIES IN ARCHITECTURE, DECORATIVE & FINE ARTS, DESIGN AND LANDSCAPE, LONDON

July 1 – July 15, 2012

Course leader Ian Cox, Director of the London Art Course at Christie’s Education, and a distinguished roster of scholars and museum experts provide an exhaustive survey of Victorian and Edwardian architecture, interior design and decorative arts, through lectures and in-depth site visits. The course also treats the history of London and issues of preservation and restoration of historic buildings. A highlight of the Summer School is the mid-course tour of Birmingham, Liverpool, and Manchester led by the former course director, the eminent architectural historian Gavin Stamp.

NEWPORT SUMMER SCHOOL

June 1 – June 10, 2012

Course leader Richard Guy Wilson, the Commonwealth Professor and Chair of Architectural History at the University of Virginia, and a distinguished roster of local experts and scholars provide a comprehensive survey of the 19th century focusing on Newport, the “queen” of American resorts. Through lectures and tours of public and private buildings, they address and de-construct architecture, interiors, landscape, city planning, fine and decorative arts of the second half of the 19th century. The course also addresses issues of “nuanced” restoration
and the preservation of structures.

The program is based at Salve Regina University in Newport. Summer cottages, built at the turn of the 20th century, comprise the campus. Students are housed in Ochre Lodge, designed by Dudley Newton in 1890.

HOW TO APPLY

Scholarships are available for current students and life-long learners. Details of this year’s programs and fees will be available by Dec. 1. Application deadline: Mar. 1. Contact Jennifer Carlquist, Victorian Society in America Summer Schools, ph: 612-280-7823, email: vsasummerschools@gmail.com
Website: www.victoriansociety.org

Free Webinars from AASLH

Copying this one right over from their newsletter; these all sound great and thanks to an IMLS grant they’re FREE.

AASLH is able to offer the following webinar series free of charge with funding generously provided by an IMLS 21st Century Museum Professionals grant. Register for one, two, or all three!Telling a Good Story

November 17, 2011

Time: 2-3:15 pm Eastern

A good guided tour is a good story, told well, says guest speaker Linda Norris. Join us to learn the basics of creating a meaningful tour and creative ways tour guides can connect with visitors who arrive at your site with many different interests.

Creating Historic House Interpretive Plans that Connect December 8, 2011

Time: 2-3:15 pm Eastern

Interpretive plans that connect with your visitors and their lives are the keystone for a positive visitor experience. Guest speaker Nancy Bryk will show participants how research is an integral part of the interpretive planning process.

Redefining Audiences

January 27, 2012

Time: 2-3:15 pm Eastern

Who are our current audiences and how can we engage new ones? Looking at the most recent U.S. Census, Susie Wilkening will discuss demographic change and the valuable ways in which history organizations can use census data.

Webinar content is supported by StEPs standards and performance indicators. Pre-registration is necessary.

Click here to register online or to register by phone or mail, contact Terry Jackson, Program Associate, at 615-320-3203 or by email to jackson[at]aaslh[dot]org

Artist-Endowed Foundations: An Emerging Force in Cultural Philanthropy

Panel Discussion and Reception
Artist-Endowed Foundations:
An Emerging Force in Cultural Philanthropy

Tuesday, November 8, 2011, 4–6:30pm
Arthur M. Sackler Museum, 485 Broadway, Cambridge

Please join us for a groundbreaking panel discussion on the emerging role of artist-endowed foundations as a force in cultural philanthropy and in stewarding America’s postwar and contemporary art patrimony. The discussion will be followed by a reception. More information on the Harvard Art Museums website.

Panelists:
Charles C. Bergman, The Pollock-Krasner Foundation
Jack Coward, Roy Lichtenstein Foundation
Jack Flam, Dedalus Foundation (Robert Motherwell)
Carolyn Somers, Joan Mitchell Foundation
Christine J. Vincent, The Aspen Institute’s National Study of Artist-Endowed Foundations

Moderated by Marion R. Fremont-Smith, the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations at Harvard University.

Presented by the Harvard Art Museums, the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations at Harvard University, and the Department of History of Art & Architecture.

Wild Apricot’s Nonprofit Webinars Roundup

Every month, Wild Apricot posts a great blog roundup of free nonprofit webinars. It’s a list well worth looking over; there’s usually something for everyone.

If you can spare an hour or two each week, you can get some great education about nonprofit questions, many of which are directly applicable to museum work.

Check out their October listing.

PS – the Wild Apricot blog is great on general principle – add it to your reading list.

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