CHARGE: Responsible for monitoring activities and projects in other statewide digital collaborations and making recommendations for new initiatives for the WHO.

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MEETING MINUTES

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WHO Future Directions Working Group

Meeting Minutes, July 6, 2007

Present: Cathy Markwiese, Kathy Schneider, Kirsten Houtman, Nolan Pope, Debbie Cardinal, Sally Drew. Not Present: Robert Trunley, Chris del Re

First on the agenda was a report by Kirsten Houtman on her research into Wisconsin and regional granting agencies. She had spent some time with the Grant Librarian at the UW-Madison Memorial Library searching in grant databases. Kirsten learned that some of her previously identified granting bodies were not good choices for us either because they did NOT give money for cultural heritage projects or because they gave money to the same places repeatedly. Kirsten was able to confirm several places that will be good for us to apply to:

J. Paul Getty Foundation

Pew Charitable Trust

Kemper Foundation?

Pleasant T. Rowland Foundation

Kohler Foundation

George Cress

Nicholas Family Foundation

Kirsten also reported that she had learned, as did Chris del Re, that the Tier 1 part of our two part Grant Outline, is not grant fundable. It’s too research based, and too experimental, NOT programmatic. Debbie noted that the Museum Survey may better serve WHO's needs than the proposed Tier 1 project.

Kirsten said she had outlined the following steps for the Future Directions group to follow once we have a proposal formulated based on the meeting’s discussion:

FutDirs need to contact past grantees of the Foundations we are most interested to find out how the process worked for them.

FutDirs need to research the grantors in the newspapers, etc. to find out what they are doing now. Sally and Kirsten will divide this up between them.

FutDirs need to discover if any of the working group or members of the WHO board know any of the members of the boards of the possible grantors.

We need to discover the members of the boards, and the names of the grant managers at the foundations.

The working group needs to develop a 5-7 minute talk to deliver over the phone or in person to the agencies we are interested in.

Kirsten will try to attend a Boris Frank workshop in the fall on tricks to getting grant funding. She will make an appointment to meet with Boris.

We left the grant process topic for a few minutes while we mulled over what to do about the Tier one part of our Outline. Cathy M. asked Kathy S. what else the Future Directions should be doing. Kathy replied that infrastructure funding was still unstable. Are there other ways to establish secure funding? Also, at some time, WHO should move to the Wisconsin Historical Society for stewardship. What steps and planning need to be done to accomplish this?

The group returned to a discussion of the Tier One problem in the Grant Outline. Debbie volunteered to study the historical society/museum survey returns for data supporting interest in digitization projects; Nolan suggested that the grant proposal should build on what WHO has already accomplished. Debbie will try to put these two together into a new draft for Cathy M. and Chris del Re to work on during July and August. Kathy S. felt that the Museums portion of WHO's activities might be innovative enough for federal grant funding. Nolan also was concerned about how museum data, harvested via XML, separates out the part of interest to WHO; it must be done on the collections' end, not by the harvesting mechanism.

Tentatively, the group agreed to complete tasks for a meeting during the week of August 20-24.

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