Message-ID: <982766.19137.qm@web53201.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 09:20:34 -0700 (PDT) From: Kathleen Hart <harthouse9@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: Funding
Kathy, next time put Historical Society in the subject. I almost deleted y
ou because I
was not familiar with your name. Kathleen -Greendale Histor
ical Society
Some societies get subsidized by the community they live
in. If you can work it out
that is ideal. We do not get subsidized. We
have membership dues and sell notecards
and mugs and other items. We ar
e putting together a calendar to sell for 2010 but we
have events here wh
ere we can sell them; a farmer's market, Village Days, Hay Days,
Dickens
Christmas. We have a tour of homes in September which brings in a few
h
undred $. We are writing grants for a special project to readapt our origi
nal police
and fire station buildings. Our operating expenses are minima
l. We have a room that
we work out of in the basement of the library wit
h no rent. We use their phone line.
So other than paper, printing, maili
ngs etc., we have no expenses. I would try to convince
the local govern
ment that it would be worthwhile to allot a few hundred per month to your
efforts. Good luck. Kathleen
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From: Kathy Laakso <kathyl@douglashistory.org>
To: ListServe <local
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Sent: Friday, July 17, 2009 11:10:37 AM
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ject: Funding
We're interested in knowing how other historical
s
ocieties are funded, whether private, county or city or mixture of them.
Can you help us out?
Thanks.
Kathy Laakso
Douglas County Histo
rical Society
Superior, WI