Director’s Dispatch Spring 2010
Posted by Katherine | Filed under Director's Dispatch
Katherine Tane, Executive Director
Fall and winter at JHSUM has been anything but quiet. In November we had over 250 people join in welcoming Dr. Guy Stern and Walter Schwartz to the Minnesota History Center screening of “The Ritchie Boys”. JHSUM was a community sponsor of the St. Paul Community wide Hanukah celebration with 500 people attending. Our two Twin Cities Jewish Book Fair events reached 150 people. And there are no signs we are slowing down. As you can see from our front page, we have great spring programming planned for you. We hope you can join us for one or more of these events in the upcoming months. You may want to take advantage of our offer of a free ticket to the Minneapolis Jewish Film Festival or Rimon’s Artist Salon event when you make a gift to our Annual Campaign.
We are most excited to share with you our success in receiving two highly competitive Minnesota Historical and Cultural Heritage Grants. These grants were made possible with the passage of the Clean Water, Land and Legacy Amendment to the Minnesota Constitution in November 2008. Our archivist Susan Hoffman is spearheading the two grant projects. One project will result in a much more informative and satisfying experience for researchers using our collections database and the other creates a number of self- guided web based tours of Minnesota Jewish history.
In our award letter, State Senator Ron Latz noted
“The Jewish Historical Society of the Upper Midwest is a great asset to our community and the state. You were selected for the grant funds for your exemplary history programs and projects that preserve significant historical and cultural resources of our community. Thank you for your dedication and investment.”
It’s always gratifying to have this kind of recognition for our work at the state level.
Julie Tarshish is back with us after delivering twin boys, Charlie and Oscar in September 2009. She is now our Programming and Communications Coordinator, a title that best describes all she does to keep JHSUM activities in the public eye. You can see her work on our newly re-launched web site– jhsum.org — and the many other places we are out there on the web. A list of where our resources can be found is on the back of this newsletter.
You may also have heard a new voice at the front desk. Cheree Cannon, Membership Coordinator, has joined us a few hours a week to keep our membership database current and send out your tribute cards.
We wouldn’t be able to meet head on this challenging economic climate for nonprofits without you. We greatly appreciate the commitment and tireless effort of our staff, Board, volunteers, supporters and friends.
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