<div dir="ltr">Thanks everyone for the feedback on the photo vouchering - super helpful!<div><br></div><div>Now I'm looking for advice on any grants you guys are familiar with that would fund capital improvements to museum buildings that may involve construction? We have an issue over here where our fluids collections are going to be moved out of the current space (which isn't rated to safely house the volume of fluid that is currently in there) and into multiple spaces in different buildings that are rated to safely house some amount of flammables. There is no single room on campus that can safely house all of our fluids collections. So we had a feasibility study done last summer to see what it would take to renovate a possible room on campus so that it could house all the collections, and the cost was very high ($1.5 billion dollars).</div><div><br></div><div>But my director wants me to apply for grants that could make those renovations, even if it meant breaking the project down into smaller chunks and getting the money for each separately. I'm rather at a loss for where to get such funds, short of actual direct donor dollars. Do you guys have any suggestions?</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks for any suggestions,</div><div><br></div><div>Kirsten<br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="'times new roman', serif" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" color="#006600">Kirsten E. Nicholson, Ph.D<br><br><i><font size="1">Prof. of Biology and Curator of Natural History<br>Dept. of Biology Museum of Cultural and Natural History<br>2104 Biosciences 103 Rowe Hall<br>Central Michigan Univ. Central Michigan University <br>Mt. Pleasant, MI 48859 Mt. Pleasant, MI 48859<br>989-774-3758 989-774-3829</font></i></font><i><font size="1"><span style="background-color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font color="#336666" face="'times new roman', serif"><b><br></b></font><br></span><br></font></i><br><br><br><br><br><br></div></div></div></div></div>
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