Flooded Costume Shop Or Music Library? Art Conservators May Be Able To Help
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If you are in the performing arts and your material assets suffer damage, be it natural disaster, leaky pipes or someone eating where they shouldn’t, you might not consider visual art conservators and restorers as a solution. The fact is the work that many of the regional preservation groups do encompasses projects outside visual arts and architectural features. They are much better equipped to effect repairs and recovery to sensitive damaged materials than most industrial and ...
Someone Else May Pay For Your New A/C (No, Not A Donor)
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If you have a large physical plant or campus of buildings and aging HVAC, lighting or water systems, you may want to consider an Energy Savings Performance Contract (ESPC). Under this arrangement, an energy service provider handles all the financing and upfront costs for system upgrades and guarantees the savings accrued from the improvements will be sufficient to pay for the upgrades over a period of time. While the bulk of ESPCs are entered into ...
Gamifying Project Planning
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The challenge of being creative in a non-profit environment is that you have big ideas, but few resources. So if you have a great idea for a new project or even an extension of an existing project, you might turn to friends, family, board members, volunteers, donors, etc., for help. But their time is valuable too. Even if they are willing and patient, you don’t want to waste their time. If their schedule isn’t so ...
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