[Heritage] Oregon Heritage News 2021-03-04

Thu Mar 4 15:25:25 PST 2021

Oregon Heritage News 2021-03-04

In this issue:

  *   Oregon Heritage offers a lottery for up to 72 one year memberships to the Nonprofit Association of Oregon
  *   Explore women's history this month (or every day)!
  *   Encouraging heritage organizations to participate in Travel Oregon Engagement Sessions
  *   Disaster preparedness tool, ShakeAlert Earthquake Early Warning, coming to Oregon on March 11
  *   Travel Oregon's Competitive & Recovery Grants Program opens March 15
  *   Findings from a recent poll on the impact the Coronavirus has had on preservation organizations

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Oregon Heritage offers a lottery for up to 72 one year memberships to the Nonprofit Association of Oregon

Oregon Heritage has a special opportunity to give out to up to 72 heritage organizations with a budget of less than $500,000 a free one-year membership to the Nonprofit Association of Oregon. You must not currently be a member of NAO in order to be eligible. Selection of recipients will be made through a random lottery.

Nonprofit Association of Oregon has continually offered relevant and engaging workshops, conferences, tools, and networking to help support Oregon's nonprofits and encourage best practices resulting in nonprofit sustainability. They have especially ramped up their efforts during COVID-19 by advocating at the national level for financial aid, providing updates to nonprofits on COVID-19 financial aid relevant to nonprofits, and by having programs that help nonprofits navigate the financial assistance being offered. During these hard times it is especially important for nonprofits to continue operating and not lose sight of best practices and use this opportunity to develop processes and procedures to help their heritage organization endure through the pandemic and recovery period.

NAO Members receive several benefits<https://nonprofitoregon.org/member-benefits> including:

  *   State and federal legislative monitoring and updates
  *   Public policy alerts affecting nonprofits
  *   Monthly eNews
  *   Networking opportunities
  *   Discounts on several tools and resources
  *   Discounts on programs, conferences, and workshops

See all benefits here<https://nonprofitoregon.org/member-benefits>.

Interested heritage organizations with a budget of less than $500,000 who are not currently a member of Nonprofit Association of Oregon will submit this online form<https://app.smartsheet.com/b/form/788fc9be5ac54c29b1cc68e17c3ae59b> and will be entered into a lottery. We will randomly pick by each county up to two recipients. If we do not have enough applications from a county then we will do a second round of random selection from all counties for the remaining memberships.

The online form<https://app.smartsheet.com/b/form/788fc9be5ac54c29b1cc68e17c3ae59b> will close March 21. Selection will be made the week of March 22. Please take advantage of this great, FREE opportunity!

For more information contact Katie Henry at katie.henry at oregon.gov<mailto:katie.henry at oregon.gov> or 503-877-8834

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Explore women's history this month (or every day)!

March is Women's History Month so we invite you to check out some local and national resources to explore the stories of women that have often been missing from the narrative in the past and are still being uncovered today.

Online Exhibits

  *   Oregon Historical Society's Nevertheless, They Persisted<https://www.ohs.org/museum/exhibits/nevertheless-they-persisted.cfm> exhibit
  *   Oregon Archives On Her Own Wings<https://sos.oregon.gov/archives/exhibits/suffrage/Pages/default.aspx> exhibit

Additional Resources

  *   Explore Canby's Women's Heritage Trail<http://visitcanby.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/BuildingaBetterCommunityBrochure_FinalDraft.pdf> (you can also read about it on the Oregon Heritage Exchange Blog<https://oregonheritage.wordpress.com/2018/03/06/building-a-better-community-the-canby-womens-heritage-trail/>)
  *   Oregon Women's History Consortium's Oregon 2020<http://www.oregonwomenshistory.org/oregon-2020/> project
  *   Women's History Resources at UO Libraries<https://library.uoregon.edu/women_history_resources>
  *   Head to the homepage of Oregon Encyclopedia<https://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/> and see the Oregon women featured in there special highlight section this month
  *   Check out the #ArchivingWomen social media campaign on Twitter<https://twitter.com/hashtag/archivingwomen?src=hashtag_click&f=live> and Instagram<https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/archivingwomen/>, a project that invites people to share your experiences about the  "discovery" of women's stories revealed through archival processing
  *   The Library of Congress, National Archives and Records Administration, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Gallery of Art, National Park Service, Smithsonian Institution and United States Holocaust Memorial Museum join in commemorating and encouraging the study, observance and celebration of the vital role of women in American history. Visit the site here<https://womenshistorymonth.gov/>.
  *   National Women's History Museum<https://www.womenshistory.org/>'s 2021 Women's History Month Resource Toolkit<https://www.womenshistory.org/sites/default/files/document/2021-03/NWHM%20Women%27s%20History%20Month%20Toolkit.pdf>
  *   Looking for some historic sites in Oregon related to women's history? Visit the Oregon Historic Sites database<http://heritagedata.prd.state.or.us/historic/>, go to the "Group Name" menu item and scroll down and select "Women's History Sites" and hit the "SEARCH" button. It will have a list of sites in this list that you can explore
  *   Additional Oregon Heritage Exchange Blog posts to check out: Hattie Redmond and the Oregon State University Hattie Redmond Women and Gender Center<https://oregonheritage.wordpress.com/2019/08/13/hattie-redmond-and-the-oregon-state-university-hattie-redmond-women-and-gender-center/>, Northwest's First Women-Owned and Operated Landscape Architecture Firm<https://oregonheritage.wordpress.com/2019/10/28/northwests-first-women-owned-and-operated-landscape-architecture-firm/>
  *   National Trust for Historic Preservations Where Women Made History 2020 project<https://savingplaces.org/womens-history#.YEFlP-eIZPY>, scroll down to see the heritage stories that were gathered

Be sure to check out your local museums and heritage organizations to see if they are highlighting women's heritage this month!

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Encouraging heritage organizations to participate in Travel Oregon Engagement Sessions

A note from Oregon Heritage: This is a great opportunity to make sure heritage tourism is considered in conversations surrounding Oregon's tourism economy. It would be great if someone from your organization can attend your region's session.

As work begins on developing strategic plans that are responsive to Oregon's ever-dynamic tourism economy, Travel Oregon and the state's seven official regional destination management organizations (RDMOs), are hosting virtual engagement sessions to seek input from communities, local businesses and individuals that drive the state's tourism economy.

Anyone who is involved in the tourism industry, including business owners, staff, destination marketing organizations, public land managers, policymakers, and tribal representatives are strongly encouraged attend.

Participants will have the opportunity to review draft regional strategic plans as well as high-level statewide strategic priorities and share their insights and perspectives. The information collected from participants during these sessions will help inform strategies, tactics and key programmatic and funding decisions in 2021-23 Strategic Plans.

Details and registration can be found here<https://industry.traveloregon.com/opportunities/event/2021-oregon-tourism-engagement-sessions/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Learn%20more&utm_campaign=Feb.%2019%20Industry%20Newsletter>.

Session Schedule at a glance:
Southern Oregon: March 15, 10-11:30 a.m.
Central Oregon: March 16, 9:30-11 a.m.
Mt. Hood & the Columbia River Gorge: March 16, 2-3:30 p.m.
Willamette Valley: March 18, 3:30-5 p.m.
Eastern Oregon: March 30, 9-10:30 a.m.
Oregon Coast: March 30, 3:30-5 p.m.
Portland Region: TBA

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Disaster preparedness tool, ShakeAlert Earthquake Early Warning, coming to Oregon on March 11

Oregon Heritage is always keeping an eye out for any resources related to disaster preparedness. Check out the update for the ShakeAlert Earthquake Early Warning system coming to Oregon on March 11. Learn more here<https://www.usgs.gov/news/shakealert-pacific-northwest-rollout?qt-news_science_products=1#qt-news_science_products>.

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Travel Oregon's Competitive & Recovery Grants Program opens March 15

Travel Oregon believes improved infrastructure is needed to enhance and expand the visitor experience over both the short and long-term and that these enhancements can help in economic recovery efforts. To support this Travel Oregon unveiled a Competitive & Recovery Grants Program<https://t.e2ma.net/click/l4ki1f/pv851c/teyx0sb>.

Applications open at 8 a.m. on March 15 and will be accepted until March 31 at 5 p.m. Total funding available for the Competitive & Recovery Grants program is $2.3 million.

Read the complete Grant Guidelines<https://t.e2ma.net/click/l4ki1f/pv851c/96yx0sb> to see eligibility requirements, funding parameters and application questions. Please direct questions to grants at traveloregon.com<mailto:grants at traveloregon.com>.

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Findings from a recent poll on the impact the Coronavirus has had on preservation organizations

Donovan Rypkema, Principal of Place Economics, shared with us the results of a recent poll on the impact the Coronavirus has had on preservation organizations.

A couple key findings:

  *   Respondents to this survey were overwhelmingly preservation professionals. Nearly 2/3s of the respondents (63.2%) stated that historic preservation is a "significant part of my job" and another 12.3% that preservation is "occasionally part of my job."
  *   Over half (51.9%) said that the cancellation of meetings/conferences/workshops negatively affected their business or profession a great deal. major negative impacts were increased individual workload (37.6%), and revenue/budget/contribution reductions (32.5%). That last category impacted non-profit organizations significantly more than either public or private sector entities.

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Oregon Heritage News is a service of Oregon Heritage, a division of the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department. The news editor can be contacted at heritage.info at oregon.gov<mailto:heritage.info at oregon.gov>.

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