[NHCOLL-L:5657] Fundraising for Collections Care online course begins October 3

[Helen Alten]

MS 302: Fundraising for Collections Care
Instructor: Helen Alten
Dates: Oct 3 to Oct 28, 2011
Price: $475
Location: Online at www.museumclasses.org

Description:
Strapped for cash? Can't see how you can implement collections 
preservation ideas when you can't pay the light bill? This workshop 
introduces funding options for a range of collections care needs. The 
class combines lecture and practicum sessions. Students will learn about 
different forms of fund raising, how to find funding sources for their 
institution, how to write successful proposals and how to build on 
success. Each student will complete a draft grant request before the end 
of the class.

Logistics:
Participants in Fundraising for Collections Care work at individual 
paces through seven sections. Instructor Helen Alten is available at 
scheduled times during the course for email support. Resources include 
forums and scheduled online chats, PowerPoint lectures, reading 
materials and lecture notes and links to relevant web sites.

The Instructor:
Helen Alten, is the Director of Northern States Conservation Center and 
its chief Objects Conservator. For nearly 30 years she has been involved 
in objects conservation, starting as a pre-program intern at the 
Oriental Institute in Chicago and the University Museum of the 
University of Pennsylvania. She completed a degree in Archaeological 
Conservation and Materials Science from the Institute of Archaeology at 
the University of London in England. She has built and run conservation 
laboratories in Bulgaria, Montana, Greece, Alaska and Minnesota. She has 
a broad understanding of three-dimensional materials and their 
deterioration, wrote and edited the quarterly Collections Caretaker, 
maintains the popular www.collectioncare.org web site, lectures 
throughout the United States on collection care topics, was instrumental 
in developing a state-wide protocol for disaster response in small 
Minnesota museums, has written, received and reviewed grants for NEH and 
IMLS, worked with local foundations funding one of her pilot programs, 
and is always in search of the perfect museum mannequin. She has 
published chapters on conservation and deterioration of archeological 
glass with the Materials Research Society and the York Archaeological 
Trust, four chapters on different mannequin construction techniques in 
Museum Mannequins: A Guide for Creating the Perfect Fit (2002), 
preservation planning, policies, forms and procedures needed for a small 
museum in The Minnesota Alliance of Local History Museums' Collection 
Initiative Manual, and is co-editor of the penultimate book on numbering 
museum collections (still in process) by the Gilcrease Museum in 
Oklahoma. Helen Alten has been a Field Education Director, Conservator, 
and staff trainer. She began working with people from small, rural, and 
tribal museums while as the state conservator for Montana and Alaska. 
Helen currently conducts conservation treatments and operates a 
conservation center in Charleston, WV and St. Paul, MN.

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Brad Bredehoft for Helen Alten
Northern States Conservation Center
www.collectioncare.org
www.museumclasses.org