| Charleston offers historic, culinary joys The News Journal, DE - Sep 24, 2006 … Residents first bucked their governance in 1719, when they threw out the legislators put in … At Patriots Point, a museum of World War II-era naval craft, I … |
Archive for September, 2006
Charleston offers historic, culinary joys - The News Journal
Sunday, September 24th, 2006Abu Dhabi Announces Its Own Gehry-Designed Guggenheim - Construction.com
Friday, September 22nd, 2006
| Abu Dhabi Announces Its Own Gehry-Designed Guggenheim Construction.com, New York - … This natural landmass, located 500 meters off shore, will also be home to national, classical art, and maritime museums, a performing arts center, and art park … |
Abu Dhabi Announces Its Own Gehry-Designed Guggenheim - Architectural Record
Thursday, September 21st, 2006
| Abu Dhabi Announces Its Own Gehry-Designed Guggenheim Architectural Record - … This natural landmass, located 500 meters off shore, will also be home to national, classical art, and maritime museums, a performing arts center, and art park … |
Museums, Libraries and Archives Council gets new board members - PublicTechnology.net
Wednesday, September 20th, 2006
| Museums, Libraries and Archives Council gets new board members PublicTechnology.net, UK - Sep 19, 2006 … and the Papplewick Pumping Station Trust, Deputy Chair of the Museum of Law … The agreement includes the essential ingredient of linked governance whereby joint … |
Dixon Doll Elected Chairperson of Asian Art Commission and Asian … - AScribe (press release)
Monday, September 18th, 2006
| Dixon Doll Elected Chairperson of Asian Art Commission and Asian … AScribe (press release) - Sep 18, 2006 … business leaders, philanthropists, and community partners–both local and global–by involving them in the museum's leadership, governance, and dynamic … |
Tradewinds Marina Signs Clean Marina Pledge - Maryland Department of Natural Resources (press release)
Thursday, September 14th, 2006
| Tradewinds Marina Signs Clean Marina Pledge Maryland Department of Natural Resources (press release), MD - … To date, 114 marine facilities have been certified as Clean Marinas or Clean Marina Partners (smaller facilities such as public ramps or maritime museums). … |
Museum appoints executive director - San Mateo Daily Journal
Thursday, September 14th, 2006| Museum appoints executive director San Mateo Daily Journal, CA - Sep 14, 2006 … to strengthen the museum’s endowment and long-term financial stability. It promises to maintain a balanced annual budget, establish new governance procedures …A new board of trustees for Coyote Point Museum made its first big change this week by naming a new interim executive director — just a week after a proposal to mix up leadership was approved. A new board of trustees was formed Tuesday night with many former board members coming on board and only a handful of current members remaining. The first order of business was to name Director of Marketing and Operations Michelle Martin as the new acting executive director. Corrina Marshall, who was hired as interim executive director in July to oversee the museum’s transition to a new nonprofit, is no longer with the museum, said newly elected board President Linda Lanier. Marshall was to manage the transition to the 11th Hour Project, a group headed by Silicon Valley executives and their spouses. The group wanted to raze the museum and build a state-of-the-art global warming education center. The current board feels Martin is a better fit for the job now that the museum will stay open. “Her role as acting executive director allows us the time needed to discover and hire the executive director with the skills that will guide our new energy and commitment,” Lanier said in a statement released yesterday. The new board aims to increase fundraising to strengthen the museum’s endowment and long-term financial stability. It promises to maintain a balanced annual budget, establish new governance procedures and implement a process for major changes to the environmental hall. It will create a new program and exhibit committee to implement upgrades to aging exhibits. Meanwhile, the Campaign to Save Coyote Point Museum continues to collect donations from a growing number of Peninsula residents who want to see the wildlife education center remain open. The group has collected $556,886 from 805 people since the campaign began on Aug.1, Lanier said. The fundraising campaign was sparked by news that another nonprofit, the 11th Hour Project, was considering a takeover of the troubled museum. The 11th Hour Project, run by a group of Silicon Valley executives, wanted to turn the museum into a large-scale global warming education center. Lanier lead the campaign and was chosen to take over as president of the board of trustees, which will also consist of a handful of former board members from the 1980s and 1990s. Pete McCloskey, an eight-term former congressman and retired Sun Microsystems executive Eric Richert are on the board. Almost all board members have served, or are serving, on other nonprofit boards. The entire board is from San Mateo County. An advisory board was also formed and consists of national experts to help guide the board as it moves toward revamping the 52-year-old museum. |
Vancouver Aquarium Fight Intensifies
Thursday, September 7th, 2006Aquarium fight intensifies
By charlie smith
Publish Date: 7-Sep-2006 Straights.com
An animal-welfare group says it will take legal action this fall to try to prove that the Vancouver aquarium violated a park-board bylaw. A citizens’ group called No Whales in Captivity issued the threat a week before key park-board votes that could affect the aquarium’s future. The group alleges that the aquarium illegally imported two Pacific white-sided dolphins in 2005—a claim denied by the park board’s liaison to the aquarium, NPA vice chair Comm. Ian Robertson.
On Monday (September 11), commissioners will deal with a staff recommendation to conduct a public-consultation process on the aquarium’s proposal to increase its presence in Stanley Park by 50 percent. The aquarium and the park board would jointly manage the consultation, which would be conducted by Kirk & Co. Consulting Ltd.
No Whales in Captivity says that the park board won’t enforce its dolphin bylaw, but the board’s vice chair disagrees.
Group taking over Coyote Point Museum
Wednesday, September 6th, 2006Group taking over Coyote Point Museum
SF Gate.com - Marisa Lagos, Chronicle Staff Writer
Wednesday, September 6, 2006
09:29 PDT SAN MATEO — A Peninsula-based group has succeeded in its bid to take over Coyote Point Museum in San Mateo, after the museum’s board of directors voted unanimously Tuesday night to accept the grassroots organization’s proposal.
Linda Lanier, co-chair of the Campaign to Save Coyote Point Museum, said her group’s plan would help the struggling wildlife learning center to remain open and ensure its long-term financial stability. The plan includes the creation of several new committees, one charged with creating new programming and exhibits at the museum, another that will focus on fundraising and a third that will act as an advisory body to the board.
Under the proposal, the museum will also seek new revenue boosters, such as corporate relationships, food and beverage operations and increased membership. Since early August, when the group was formed, it has raised $543,000 from community members — nearly one-third more than Lanier anticipated. The museum has a $700,000 deficit this fiscal year.
The current board also voted Tuesday night to accept 17 new members to the body as part of the proposal, said Lanier, who is one of the new members.
The museum, located on Coyote Point in San Mateo, has been struggling for years to stay fiscally solvent and has not had a permanent executive director in years.
Museum officials stirred a controversy last month when they announced they would consider two proposals to save the museum: the one from Campaign to Save Coyote Point Museum, and another by the 11th Hour Project. That group, created by Silicon Valley executives and their families, aimed to scrap the museum and replace it with a global warming education center. Responding to community opposition, however, the group withdrew its proposal two weeks ago. The 11th Hour Project still hopes to build the center elsewhere.
Perhaps in response to the 11th Hour Project’s plan, the Campaign to Save Coyote Point Museum states in its proposal that in the future the museum will “address underlying factors responsible for our environmental problems such as species extinction, loss of habitat, overpopulation, global warming and toxic waste.”
E-mail Marisa Lagos at mlagos@sfchronicle.com. URL: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/09/06/BAG6BL06M510.DTL
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