C2C Care Course: Making the Most of Your Assessment 3 of 4
Channel: AIC & FAIC
Date: 2020-09-11

Preservation and Conservation Assessments, Surveys, and Evaluations can be incredibly helpful collections care tools – if you know how to use them! Too often cultural heritage organizations receive these useful documents only to let them sit on a shelf and gather dust. This course will help you to understand the different types of assessments you may have done on your collections, and, most importantly, how to implement the recommendations made and move these documents from a binder on the shelf into real life applications. In this four part series, presenters will discuss what is included in a general preservation assessment, other types of useful collections care related assessments, using an assessment for grant writing and fundraising, and creating an implementable preservation plan.

Webinar 3: What To Do With Your Assessment: Fundraising and Grant Writing with Lee Price, Director of Development, CCAHA. An assessment report may recommend actions that require funding to become a reality. This webinar will discuss using assessments as supporting documents in grant applications and how to fundraise and make the case for collections care initiatives. We will discuss what big funders, such as the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS), are looking for in applications, and how recommendations from assessments can be used to strengthen your proposals.