Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2019 15:41:22 +0000 (UTC) From: "Sussex-Lisbon Area Historical Society, Inc." <slahsinc@yahoo.com> Message-ID: <1623431782.3921642.1571845282285@mail.yahoo.com> Subject: Local Municipal Funding
Our organization once again tried, without success, to acquire municipal fu
nding from the towns and village we serve. We are thought of as a charity,
and besides the possibility of a minor property tax rate hike (50 cents per
resident per year), the respective boards don't want to open the flood gat
es for other such petitioners. I've expressed multiple times that we're not
a charity, but a community resource, much like the local parks, highway, a
nd fire departments.
My questions to all of you that do receive municipal funding support are th
ese: Is your historical society an extension of your municipality[ies] gove
rnment, ex. under your park & rec dept, or as a separate department?
Does it have to be to receive funding? If you're not part of t
he local municipality you serve and receive funding, how does the local gov
ernment justify to the residents [and themselves] of the community that the
y should do this? If you receive funding, do you have to petition the
municipalities each and every year to be added to their annual budgets, or
?I wonder how many Wisconsin historical society organizations receive local
government funding, and to what degree of the organization's annual budget
?If you receive government funding, can you also be an incorporated entity
under Wisconsin law, and an affiliate of the Wisconsin State Historical Soc
iety?
Apart from the above, has anyone been successful in conducting online socia
l media fundraising events/programs, such as GoFundMe on Facebook or other?
Mike
Michael R. ReillyMuseum Director: Sussex-Lisbon Area Historium
President: Sussex-Lisbon Area Historical Society, Inc.
www.slah.online www.slahs.org
P. O. Box 2, Sussex, Wisconsin 53089-0002