1st Edition
Fundraising for Impact in Libraries, Archives, and Museums Making the Case to Government, Foundation, Corporate, and Individual Funders
Fundraising for Impact in Libraries, Archives, and Museums provides practical advice that will help LAMs reassess how to leverage their organizational assets in ways that support communities and help to forge productive relationships with foundation, individual, corporate, and government funders.
Drawing on the insights gleaned from interviews with more than 100 international LAM practitioners, the book examines the common fundraising challenges that LAM institutions of all types and sizes face. During today’s dynamic times, when many LAMs are seeking to remain relevant and viable, Matthew emphasizes how vital it is for them to demonstrate and communicate how they benefit their communities. The book presents five frameworks used in community development and philanthropy and illustrates how they can help an institution to assess and communicate its impact, focus its mission-related activities, and effectively deploy proven fundraising strategies. Vignettes from the interviews are presented throughout, along with pointers, to illustrate actionable approaches that the reader can adapt as they seek contributed financial resources. The reader will explore various fundraising scenarios to help secure resources including appeals, special events, moves management, digital media, and corporate philanthropy.
Fundraising for Impact in Libraries, Archives, and Museums is essential reading for library, archive, and museum practitioners and fundraisers working around the world.
1. Deploying Your Institution’s and Community’s Assets; 2. Power Dynamics Framework; 3. Community Wellbeing Framework; 4.Design Thinking Framework; 5. Outputs and Outcomes Framework; 6. Collaboration Framework; 7. Strengthening Supporter Networks; 8. Navigating Corporate Giving; 9. Government Funded Institutions; 10.Aligning Innovation and Operations; 11. Risk Management; 12. Building An Impact Culture
Biography
Dr. Kathryn K. Matthew advocates for museums, archives, and public libraries as essential contributors to resilient and inclusive communities. She brings her cross-sector experiences—in community development, museum leadership, corporate product management, national grant-making, rural development, government affairs, fundraising, and operational improvements—to her work. Currently she is Senior Associate at AEA Consulting, where she provides strategy and planning services for the global cultural and creative industries.
"This book provides a roadmap of concepts and methods to maximize an organization’s potential, focusing on collecting data and providing examples on how such data can be used to seek funding. Matthew broadly defines fundraising as securing desired financial resources from different means to successfully establish institutional vision. This book provide tools to collect information to identify the strengths of the organization and the types of potential partners that can lead to funding, whether that means securing a donor or new partner, successfully arguing for an increase in your department’s or organization’s budget, or writing a grant. The biggest challenge cultural heritage institutions face is financial ruin, which would lead to the loss of historical material that helps us know who we are, why we exist, and how societies function over centuries. This book shows how these unique spaces for learning and enrichment can learn and apply frameworks that help organizations identify their value, impact, and stakeholders (known and unknown), and how to justify the need for more funding and resources."
~ Meredith R. Evans Ph.D, Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies (Vol. 10, Article 13, 2023)
