Houston Museum of Culture - Build Something Great in Houston
Mark Lacy
Culture each year, as it becomes an internationally-renown institution
for the city and region. It will define Houston for visitors to the
city and for generations to come.
The Houston Museum of Culture will explore Houston's past through
permanent exhibits and interactive forums, covering a wide range of
topics such as civil rights, food traditions and the region's musical
legacy. Through community and academic partnerships, it will interpret
the modern conditions and creativity of one of the most culturally and
socially diverse cities in the world. The museum will examine the
prospects for the ways we will live in the future and build innovative
programs to benefit the region's diverse communities.
We are seeking Founders and Founding Advisory Board Members. Please
review the website information and let us know if you would like to be
involved in this visionary project.
We are wrapping up the individual founders campaign and working to
involve student organizations and arts groups, academic departments,
professional and community organizations as founders in the fall. We
are looking for opportunities to give presentations for any of these
key groups that would like to learn more.
The Fifty Founders campaign seeks to involve fifty individuals,
organizations, arts groups and businesses. Founders will make many key
decisions, from the museum's location to the wording of its mission
statement.
Advisory Board Members will work autonomously and in small groups to
plan and conduct outreach to encourage individuals and organizations
to become founders. Through the museum's development and outreach,
advisors may establish committees and key relationships as the museum
enters the larger fundraising stage. Advisory Board Members may be
involved in developing plans for the museum and presenting ideas and
possibilities to founders during the decision process. Each Advisory
Board Member may have different pursuits due to their varied
interests, which is a necessary element of the broad outreach and
inclusiveness of the museum, and certainly to this fresh, new approach
to building major cultural institutions.
Special Advocacy Roles - It is important that we look ahead to the
content and many needs of the museum. There will be a need for
individuals with special interests to facilitate the exploration and
inclusion of unique subjects in the museum. This may include food
traditions, health impacts of specific ways of life, arts traditions,
new communications, and youth and adult themes, such as peer issues in
schools or the changing role of women in the workplace. The work of
advocates in these areas will be to identify and facilitate groups to
work on their area of interest, with the goal to ensure its inclusion
in the museum, possibly by developing a prospectus and potential
funding, or establishing a friends committee to guide the presentation
of the subject.
This is an opportunity to build something that is truly great for
Houston. The three key steps you can take to bring the Houston Museum
of Culture to life include:
-Be a Founder or Founding Advisory Board Member
-Plan a presentation for an organization or business
-Spread the word using information provided on the website
Learn more at: http://www.hmoc.org/benefits
Thank you for your time and support.
Sincerely,
Mark Lacy
Founder and Founding Advisory Board Member
Houston Museum of Culture