Planning Services
International Heritage Resources provides well-researched planning coupled with practical experience tailored to your specific project. To complement your project's success, we provide assistance with Smithsonian Affiliation applications, a program that provides facilitated access to collections, traveling exhibitions, staff training, expert guidance and marketing materials, as well as IMLS Museum Assessment Program and AAM Accredidation applications. We simply don't believe in standard templates or pro-forma approaches to the very unqiue industry of cultural heritage that serves as our legacy for future generations. Our firm can provide you with:
Feasibility Planning to research the best approaches to your project. As you seek funding from governmental agencies and prospects, a solid feasibility plan will communicate the necessity of the project, its programs and its long-term sustainablity.
Application Assistance for Smithsonian Affiliation status, as well as to the Institute of Museum & Library Service's Museum Assessment Program and the American Association of Museums' Accredidation program. Please note that these particular applications are meant to help museums attain and to acknowledge best practices in the museum industry. All applications may not be accepted, and are awarded only upon meeting each program's respective criteria.
Facility Planning to help your archictect ensure that you are receiving the optimum use of your capital project, and that it will meet the day-to-day and prospective needs of your organization.
Fundraising Planning to help your team identify the amount of funding that is realistic for your project, specific prospects to solicit, an organizational structure for both your board and staff to leverage fundraising efforts, trained Raiser's Edge professionals to help organize your constituent data to avoid work redundancies, and grant writing assistance.
Attendance and Revenue Analysis to help you plan for the financial realities of your project. We will not overestimate attendance just to capture the attention of prospective donors. However, we will conduct a thorough study of real attendance and revenue figures from like institutions that will enable you to realistically budget for your operations.
Audience Studies to help you guage what topic areas resonate most with various audiences, and to help you improve upon your existing cultural experience.
Strategic Planning to help your board and staff effectively build upon the strengths of your organization, overcome challenges, and create action steps to successfully move your organization forward. To further assist your organization in implementing these action steps, we will provide a project management tool for you to review with your staff on a consistent basis, to ensure that no tasks are being forgotten, and your goals are being met.
Marketing and Public Relations are key to the success of any project. We will provide your organization with services including branding, marketing planning and public relations planning - all of which will culminate in strong brand awareness and integrated marketing and public relations tactics.
Exhibition Development to help you create a quality experience that connects with your visitors to get them talking positively about your organization, and generating repeat visitation.
Educational Programming to help you achieve the greatest learning outcomes with many audiences.