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From the monthly archives: February 2011
One of the advantages of this job is being able to get out to museums less traveled and in the case of the Saint Peter State Hospital Museum which dwells within the grounds of a maximum security psychiatric hospital – reservations are required. However, that day, the volunteers and staff were holding an open house [...]
On February 8, 2011, state demographer Tom Gillaspy released the report Minnesota Milestones, which looks at 60 indicators of the state’s progress. One of those was average wage, which showed an average of $21.85/hour (Weekly Wage/40 hours) for 2009. In 2006 Local History Services conducted a survey of salary paid for work at local historical [...]
Dennis Anderson’s “Memo to whiners: cut it out” (Star Tribune 2/10/2011) mirrored a post here on Why so bleak? Anderson suggests that Minnesotans have a penchant for pessimism even though the state in general has a solid track record. It was that tendency to go for the “low-hanging fruit” of negativity that often hinders local [...]
In Data for Dollars and Alignment for Dollars the need for performance measurement of outcomes was explored. Data is needed to understand the nonprofit cultural field, and aligning its goals and objectives with primary partners and funders could be paramount. Where did this movement originate? And, as some from Minnesota’s nonprofit historical organizations have expressed doubts [...]
Does your organization seem to drift from one focus to the next? A number of Minnesota historical organizations have used the Museum Assessment Program (called MAP) to find their way to a clearer day. Read what your colleagues are saying about MAP: “Clay County Historical Society decided to do a MAP assessment because: we weren’t [...]
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