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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt">Oregon Heritage News 2023-04-14<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">In this Issue:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Oregon Heritage MentorCorps seeks mentors!<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Volunteer success story featured on the Oregon Heritage Exchange Blog<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Sign Up to be a 2023 Blue Star Museum</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Smithsonian Places 4.5 Million Historic Images Into the Public Domain</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">OMA Webinar, April 24: You are not alone! Working with consultants to support your museum<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Webinar, May 2: May Day 2023 Where to Find Aid and How to Get Training for Disasters<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Oregon Heritage MentorCorps seeks mentors!<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">Be the ‘Me’ in Mentor!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">It’s that time of year again when Oregon Heritage seeks professionals from all experience backgrounds to join our
<a href="https://www.oregon.gov/oprd/OH/pages/mentorcorps.aspx">MentorCorps</a> team. This volunteer team provides one-on-one guidance and advice to heritage organizations around the state that often includes a multitude of collections care topics. It can also
 mean addressing some more difficult conversations around strategic planning and organizational governance, disaster planning, diversity, equity, & inclusion work, and a plethora of other organizational challenges that we all face.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">If you have one year or more of experience conducting heritage work in non-profits, museums, government entities, libraries, archives, or other arena, consider applying today! You don’t have to be an expert
 in all things, you just need to have a desire to help others, awareness of vetted resources, and the ability to listen and support others doing heritage work. Check out this
<a href="https://oregonheritage.wordpress.com/2022/07/27/mentorcorps-why-serve/">
blog post</a> for some testimonies from mentors. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><a href="https://app.smartsheet.com/b/form/c307c9d8d0a94cf886f28353e3b4ef5e">Apply to be a Mentor today!</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Want more information on what it looks like to be a mentor before applying?</b> Register for a Drop-In Session with Program Coordinator, Cam Amabile on the following dates:
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4"><a href="https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwucOyoqT0pHtVhchSk53XenRMxoCN3ZrhE"><i>April 20<sup>th</sup> at 8AM (Pacific Time)</i></a><i><o:p></o:p></i></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4"><a href="https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIvf-6qqTIqHdUhuO7e2CZEYazk8wry5vfU"><i>May 11<sup>th</sup> at 1PM (Pacific Time)</i></a><i><o:p></o:p></i></li></ul>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo5">Get up-close and personal with heritage organizations around the state and find out what’s going on locally in the heritage world<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo5">Experience the rewarding feeling of helping an organization fulfill their mission<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo5">Mentor-only trainings and skill building opportunities
<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo5">Paid attendance at Oregon Heritage Summit & Conferences (includes lodging!)<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo5">Quarterly networking opportunities with the MentorCorps team<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo5">Expand your personal network of heritage professionals
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Volunteer success story featured on the Oregon Heritage Exchange Blog<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">Many historic cemeteries rely on volunteers to get things done. Check out this volunteer story from a group doing preservation work in Tillamook.
<a href="https://oregonheritage.wordpress.com/2023/04/14/cemeteries-rely-on-volunteers/">
Read more</a>. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">And if you are in the mood to check out another volunteer program related blog, check out this Main Street America blog post:
<a href="https://www.mainstreet.org/blogs/national-main-street-center/2023/04/11/main-spotlight-oh-dear-i-need-a-volunteer-how-to-b?mc_cid=73f623670b&mc_eid=0e501fd357">
Oh Dear, I Need a Volunteer: How to Build and Manage Your Volunteer Program</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">ONE MORE THING, if you want to spend a couple days talking about volunteer program challenges, opportunities, and participate in a workshop to help you improve your volunteer program, then definitely come hang
 out with us April 27-28 at the 2023 Oregon Heritage Virtual Summit, <a href="https://www.oregon.gov/oprd/OH/Pages/Heritage-Summit.aspx">
Investing in Your Volunteers: Engage, Sustain, Value</a>. Registration is just $5 and summit raffle giveaways include a chance to win a $250 mini-grant to go towards volunteer appreciation. Register
<a href="https://www.oregon.gov/oprd/OH/Pages/Heritage-Summit.aspx">here</a>. <o:p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Sign Up to be a 2023 Blue Star Museum</span></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">The Blue Star Museums program provides free admission to museums for active-duty members of the military and their families. The program begins on Armed Forces Day, May 20, and runs through Labor Day. For more
 information, and to sign up your museum to participate, <b><a href="http://458rl1jp.r.us-east-1.awstrack.me/L0/http:%2F%2Fwww.arts.gov%2Finitiatives%2Fblue-star-museums/1/010001877155ba7d-882630cb-8fd6-4c7b-8bfc-5e8cabebec8b-000000/k6LiH4x8u_TfJxspJUYyy7CptjI=317">visit
 the National Endowment for the Arts website.</a></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Smithsonian Places 4.5 Million Historic Images Into the Public Domain</span></b><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">Available on a platform called Smithsonian Open Access, anyone can download, reuse, and remix these images at any time—for free under the Creative Commons Zero license.
<b><a href="https://458rl1jp.r.us-east-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F%2Fmymodernmet.com%2Fsmithsonian-open-access-public-domain%2F/1/010001877155ba7d-882630cb-8fd6-4c7b-8bfc-5e8cabebec8b-000000/YQt3ocqvrCd-q0z8cpmiBFZAnls=317">Read more.</a></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt">OMA Webinar, April 24: You are not alone! Working with consultants to support your museum<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b>Tuesday, April 25, 2023, 11:30 am - 1:00 pm PST<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">Join our panel of experts in the Oregon museum community to hear about how to work with consultants: how to find them, fund them, work with them and get the expert support you want. We'll also hear from a small,
 all-volunteer museum on their experience with consultants.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">Attendees will have at least 30 minutes to ask questions and talk with consultants in breakout groups. Come prepared with your questions!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l2 level1 lfo2">Kyrie Kellet, <a href="https://www.oregonmuseums.org/EmailTracker/LinkTracker.ashx?linkAndRecipientCode=gbnhpL9bPfOzax%2baNoilnN6LWjxlmC4wa08JuhmN%2bzNDqSIGik9AaI334l7qf3G%2bQwcxXmSs9q%2bEVCdhriC3i6218Q6zwd0rQZN%2b0%2bdpqTQ%3d">Mason
 Bee Interpretive Planning</a><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l2 level1 lfo2">Alan Ransenberg, <a href="https://www.oregonmuseums.org/EmailTracker/LinkTracker.ashx?linkAndRecipientCode=obpX3rSP5LMRIvHaCNcAfan2p%2fLm47OTaPZ4mP4KxAHNG1ZjTpRaz6%2b0EKBWQEkY%2fF3l6%2bG8pfREZFOzAh7MyZiSyLkVhzwCNztCePxOy%2b4%3d">Alchemy
 of Design</a><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l2 level1 lfo2">Kathleen Sligar, <a href="https://www.oregonmuseums.org/EmailTracker/LinkTracker.ashx?linkAndRecipientCode=JJ0x7mV89aYOrUC4YeHV4%2bLQT4PZAOBNbgyxsMr291BRNFVIjcavw1cIJ5T11ZbbY1O3I4NK8cmuIfoECFkHAg9j1R6%2fYX1YC6V1q8BabqY%3d">
Oregon Military Museum</a><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l2 level1 lfo2">Patti Ball, <a href="https://www.oregonmuseums.org/EmailTracker/LinkTracker.ashx?linkAndRecipientCode=eFmJfic9NdNgFTcgVxuPPO83176mzfSPxFBu0A8vPRoj6TfWzN4onxL%2f9rupKAz0IDDoqVgqiYSnRFeuntSl%2bLqSkPPvJwAdjLjGdpm%2fAqc%3d" target="_blank">
Jefferson Historical Society and Museum</a><o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l4 level1 lfo3">OMA members: $15 <o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l4 level1 lfo3">Non-members: $25<o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Register <a href="https://www.oregonmuseums.org/event-5183352">
here</a>.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Webinar, May 2: May Day 2023 Where to Find Aid and How to Get Training for Disasters<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">Connecting to Collections Webinar: Where to Find Aid and How to Get Training for Disasters<br>
May 2, 2023<br>
2pm-3pm ET<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">As part of the annual #MayDayPrep program sponsored by FAIC, this C2C Care Webinar spotlights where small and mid-sized organizations can access resources immediately after they experience a disaster, what entities
 with trained volunteers can offer assistance to these organizations, and finally, training that collections professionals can attend to prepare their institutions and communities for disasters in the future.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><a href="https://connectingtocollections.org/may_day_2023_aid/">Register here</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.0pt">Share your photos of Oregon’s heritage on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter using #oregonheritage.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.0pt">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
</span><a href="mailto:heritage.info@oregon.gov" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:9.0pt">heritage.info@oregon.gov</span></a><span style="font-size:9.0pt">.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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