Engaging Winona County Residents in Exhibit Development at the Winona County History Center
To hire a qualified consultant to engage the community in exhibit development for Winona County Historical Society.
$4,500,000 the first year and $6,500,000 the second year are for history programs and projects operated or conducted by or through local, county, regional, or other historical or cultural organizations or for activities to preserve significant historic and cultural resources. Funds are to be distributed through a competitive grant process. The Minnesota Historical Society must administer these funds using established grant mechanisms, with assistance from the advisory committee created under Laws 2009, chapter 172, article 4, section 2, subdivision 4, paragraph (b), item (ii).
Available upon request. grants@mnhs.org
Our short term goal of collecting the data through Engage Winona was met. Our intermediate goal of meeting with the board to prioritize topics was started in April with a Board and Staff retreat where Brian presented the findings to us. We decided with the change of leadership with Mark Peterson's retirement in May to wait and do more of this work after the new Executive Director, Genia Hesser, gets started. Our long-term goal of starting grant writing for new exhibit development, based on the findings of this project, will begin later this year as the new director gets more comfortable and will be an ongoing goal to use the data from this project to better our exhibits, programing and long-term strategic planning.
Available upon request, grants@mnhs.org
Diane Dingfelder, Sue Hovell, Ken Lindamann, Dennis McEntaffer, Patrick Marek, Janis Martin, Blake Pickart, Pat Rogers, Mary Stoltman, ?Nancy Wiltgen