Brought to you by the Friends of the North Coast's Natural History Museum
The Friends of the North Coast's Natural History Museum is a devoted group of volunteers and community members who have come together to fundraise, organize and develop plans to keep the museum open.

Although we recently received word that HSU did not accept our proposal we are not giving up! We have already raised over $74,000 in pledges -- a considerable amount considering the short time line and we plan to raise more!

If you have been thinking about pledging then pledge now! As we get word out about our continued efforts and continue to communicate this to HSU we want them to see just how dedicated this community is to the museum.

- If you are interested in pledging money to keep the museum open please visit http://www.savethenorthcoastnhm.org/ . -

Showing posts with label Events. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Events. Show all posts

Saturday, August 22, 2009

Our Saturday Event/ Marketing Video is on the way. Thank you to everyone who participated!


We had a great time (and a great turnout) today! Thank you to everyone who came and who participated in what is sure to be an amazing Marketing Video. We even got all the pictures we needed for our new banner -- check it out (at the top of the blog).

Thanks again...

More - pictures - video - everything to come.

Friday, August 21, 2009

Since tomorrow (SATURDAY) is bring your kids to the museum day from 11-2 so we can film them for our video...

"Dear Spring, I like the egg you showed us. I even liked everything in the Natural History Museum and the animals there I love them."


I give you -- thank you letters to the museum -- by kids who can draw way better than I did when I was little.
We're a bunch of adults working on a bunch of adult things to save this museum but it's the kids who remember the *awe* feeling that you get when you walk in and see the great big bird on the ceiling or the shark hanging above you.
Our community group is coming together for a lot of reasons and this is just one of the many.
And we even like everything in the Natural History Museum too.

Technical Difficulties: check! Working on those technical difficulties: PRICELESS

Thank you for your emails giving us a heads up about any technical difficulties you may be having with this site or our website. We are working on them every chance that we get and looking for creative ways to solve every issue.

Just in case you are wondering about our progress:

1. The Pledge Button on the blog doesn't work!

It doesn't. Our tech guy (who is amazing and got our site up in such a short amount of time and is always there on email talking to me about the next thing he needs to do -- as a volunteer!) is going to work on the problem today. Until that time -- consider this pledge box a TRACKER for our progress -- and visit http://www.savethenorthcoastnhm.org/ if you want to PLEDGE (that pledge box works).

2. Our progress is upwards of $40,000!

The pledge system is very new and does not reflect the many paper pledges we have received over the last week. We know that it can look daunting from the tracker but we are well on our way. We do have someone working on entering the pledges manually into the system and will hopefully get it updated shortly.

3. Why am I getting all of these emails?

If you are one of the many people who signed our original email and sign up list from our planning meetings we thank you for your support and interest in the museum. We are working on an email list and perhaps weekly newsletter so that we can prevent the many emails circulating around from crowding inboxes. Again, please bear with us. We will have this up and running soon and thank you thank you for your understanding.

And thank you to all who gave a heads up - email or comment about issues. As a group of volunteers we can use all of the help we can get.

SEE YOU SATURDAY at 11:00 a.m.!