From: "Bobbie Erdmann" <bobbiee@centurytel.net> Subject: RE: Local Municipal Funding Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2019 12:12:46 -0500 Message-ID: <FBF684E8EE534FA2A786510DAC2AC401@ErdmannHP>
The Berlin Area Historical Society gets $2,000 from the City of Berlin. We
are NOT an extension of the municipality.
We request these funds from the City each year during budget time. I don't
think it's required but we are a 501c3.
The funds help us with our insurance for our now three buildings each year
which we own. We are a small organization and this
really helps. We do submit a letter of request with a record of how the
museums and programs have helped promote
the city and tourism during the past year.
Bobbie Erdmann
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From: localhistory-request@listserve.uwec.edu
[mailto:localhistory-request@listserve.uwec.edu] On Behalf Of Julie Huebel
Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2019 7:09 AM
To: Sussex-Lisbon Area Historical Society, Inc.;
localhistory@listserve.uwec.edu
Subject: Re: Local Municipal Funding
Pierce County, WI - We receive $12,000 per year from the county. We have no
official affiliation with the county government. We are associated with WHS.
We own our own property, the county has no involvement in that or decision
making. Sorry you haven't had luck getting county funding, I recommend to
keep trying.
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From: localhistory-request@listserve.uwec.edu
<localhistory-request@listserve.uwec.edu> on behalf of Sussex-Lisbon Area
Historical Society, Inc. <slahsinc@yahoo.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2019 10:41:22 AM
To: localhistory@listserve.uwec.edu <localhistory@listserve.uwec.edu>
Subject: Local Municipal Funding
Our organization once again tried, without success, to acquire municipal
funding 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 gates
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, and
fire departments.
My questions to all of you that do receive municipal funding support are
these: Is your historical society an extension of your municipality[ies]
government, 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 the local municipality you serve and receive funding,
how does the local government justify to the residents [and themselves] of
the community that they 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
Society?
Apart from the above, has anyone been successful in conducting online social
media fundraising events/programs, such as GoFundMe on Facebook or other?
Mike
Michael R. Reilly
Museum Director: Sussex-Lisbon Area Historium
President: Sussex-Lisbon Area Historical Society, Inc.
www.slah.online <http://www.kellerhistorymuseum.org/> www.slahs.org
P. O. Box 2, Sussex, Wisconsin 53089-0002