MOUs between partner organizations

[Lori Wysong]

Hello everyone, 

I work at a nonprofit Museum that is in the process of trying to help restore a local historic house in WV. We've been talking with other local stakeholders about possibilities for using the house once it is restored, and have offered to provide some assistance with programming, collections expertise, and fundraising. However, there is another community nonprofit that we believe is more suited to having its name on the deed and overseeing the house's maintenance. Our two nonprofits are trying to work out an MOU for running the house once it is restored. 

It would be helpful to have examples of agreements of this kind, involving multiple stakeholders in a historic house. If anyone has any documents or advice that they are willing to share it would be much appreciated. 

Thank you, 

Lori Wysong

Director, Jefferson County Museum

200 E Washington St

Charles Town, WV 25414

[Dakota Russell]

Hi Lori,

Not sure how much it helps, but I'm passing along an agreement I worked on years ago between a nonprofit and a county government board for operating a small local museum. You're smart to get it done upfront. Those 2 groups waited close to 20 years to put anything in writing and had VERY different ideas about what each other's roles should be...

Dakota

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[bstein...@amherst.edu]

Hi Lori, sorry to be so late in responding to this thread, but in case it's still relevant, I'm attaching the MOU from when the Emily Dickinson Museum was founded. In 2003 the Homestead (owned by Amherst College) and The Evergreens (operated by a private trust) merged to form the EDM under the auspices of Amherst College but maintaining its own governing board and a public mission. I'm attaching it here.

-Brooke Steinhauser