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What
a wonderful Meeting! One of
AAM’s best!
AAMV sponsored
two very popular and well attended sessions at the 2007 meeting:
Creating
a High Impact Volunteer Program
The panelists
demonstrated how to develop an effective and efficient volunteer and/or
docent program with
step-by-step formulas.
Those attending found it to be very helpful.
Many things were discussed, recruitment,
volunteer and staff
training, policies and procedures, retention and other aspects of a
successful program.
Chair:
Mary Anne Schierman, McLean County Museum of History, Bloomington, IL
Panelists:
Rhonda Hethcox, Birmingham Museum of Art (AAMV Board
Member)
Maretta Hemsley-Wood, National Air and Space Museum (AAMV board
member)
Connie Pirtle, Strategic Nonprofit Management (AAMV board
member)*
*Unfortunately Connie
was unable to attend, because of illness.
From
Tot to Teen: New Ideas for Youth/Family Volunteer Program
This session demonstrated how to create innovative and
quality volunteer programs for families, teens and
youth as young as 3
years old. Panelist demonstrated how engaging youth and families can
provide museums
with new perspectives as well as help attract and
sustain more diverse audiences. The presenters shared their
ideas for
developing interesting volunteer opportunities as well as guidelines and
procedures to follow to retain
this transient population.
Chair:
Joyce Jensen, Naval Undersea Museum, WashingtonState
Panelists
Debbie Young, Children’s Museum of Indianapolis
AAMV board
member)
Kristi Cotner, National Building Museum (AAMV board member)
Gloria FitzSimons, Bruce Museum (AAMV State
Representative for Connecticut)
Did you miss these sessions?
No Problem, you
can order a DVD of each session from the AAM website
or click
here.
Annual Meeting and
Luncheon
What a great time for networking! It
was so nice to see so many volunteers and volunteer coordinators at the
luncheon. The meeting was
short. We had the
opportunity to thank Wendy Evans for all her years of hard
work as our
excellent President
and welcome Gin Wachter as new President.
Speaker Justine
Jentes, Director of the Mies van der Rohe Society, presented an
excellent program that we all
enjoyed.
A great time was had by all!
Our next meeting will be in Denver and you are all
invited to attend.
We will
be updating our website with more information as it becomes available.
AAMV at
the 2008 AAM meeting
updated September 2007
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