1st Edition
Fundraising for Impact in Libraries, Archives, and Museums Making the Case to Government, Foundation, Corporate, and Individual Funders
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)
