American Association For State and Local History
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2021 21st Avenue South suite 320, Nashville, TN 37212, USA
EIN Number: 39-0962197
contact information
Phone: 615-320-3203
Hours: No Set Business Hours - Call to Inquire
Website: https://www.aaslh.org/
Email: info@aaslh.org
NTEE Code: A54: History Museums
MISSION - WHAT WE DO
AASLH provides leadership and support for its members who preserve and interpret state and local history in order to make the past more meaningful to all people.
SERVICES - HOW WE DO IT
Visitor's Count! The Visitors Count! program, developed in partnership with the Center for Nonprofit Management of Nashville, helps museums implement positive institutional change. Through Visitor's Count's scientific and tested visitor survey and its resulting report, an institution receives information about visitor satisfaction and opinions plus valuable support material for strategic planning, fund raising, marketing, and program development. Moreover, the report provides benchmarks so a participating institution can compare its results with institutions of similar size from across the country. The nine-month program is offered twice each year and features visitor surveys developed specifically for museums, historic houses, or museum education divisions. Standards and Excellence Program for History Organizations (StEPs) Almost 800 historical institutions across the country are currently enrolled in a standards program for small- and mid-sized history museums and historical organizations. The three-year development project was funded by a grant from the Institute for Museum and Library Services. In addition to creating a set of voluntary standards, the project included the development of resource and training materials. State museum associations and field service offices throughout the U.S. were invited to work with the Association to assist institutions that want to implement the standards. The standards areas include mission and governance, management, audience, interpretation, and care of collections and historic structures. AASLH introduced the program to the museum field in 2008. State and Local History Book Series In 2014, AASLH shifted its book publishing to a new partnership with Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group to continue AASLH's long tradition of professional development and continuing education the field of state and local history. From 1995-2013, we published an average of less than three books a year. Since 2014, we have increased production considerably, publishing nine titles that year, seven last year, with eighteen scheduled for 2016, and twenty-one under contract in 2017. Topics range from practical guides to establishing websites for history organizations or leadership recommendations for CEOs in the history field, to more interpretive, historical scholarship-based topics, such as the state of the field in Native American history at historic sites and museums to the state of the field for military history at historic sites and museums.Publishing books is a very important part of AASLH’s service to the field. Continuing Education for History Practitioners AASLH is the leading provider of continuing education for people who work or volunteer in history organizations throughout the country. The association offers numerous webinars, online courses, and onsite workshops each year. Topics range from the practical (i.e. volunteer management) to the big picture (connecting to your community) and are offered at low costs to be accessible to all organizations, no matter what their budget.
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2021 21st Avenue South suite 320, Nashville, TN 37212, USA
https://www.aaslh.org/
No Set Business Hours - Call to Inquire