Shogren Consulting | Heritage, Museum & Cultural Planning

Welcome to Shogren Consulting! We are a forward thinking organizational consultancy that serves all of the nonprofit/ngo sector with a specialization in cultural and planning, cultural resource management, application of new technologies and a growing practice in sustainability. New content is always developing and being added to this site, so please check back ofter. And take a moment to tell us about yourself and why you came by registering with us for future updates! Thanks again, Sam Shogren & Associates

Motive Space Symposium

We are providing a variety of administrative and support services to the Symposium including support and development of the Symposium’s open source solutions based website, a discussion forum, creation of a PayPal system for event registration, conference planning advice, and consultation on Nonprofit start-ups.

Shogren Consulting’s support of the Symposium represents the first of our new initiatives to build sustainable communities and to implement the principals of LEAD International.

The September dialogue will provide a forum for industry related professionals and citizens to gather + contribute toward a community model of Cooperative Development. For the purposes of the dialogue, the proposed definition of cooperative development is the initiation of multi-family infill projects through the collaborative efforts of citizens and designers. It proposes a renegotiated partnership between enterprising architects and design-savvy citizens, in order to simultaneously diminish the risk of new construction in a shaky market economy, and maximize the creative excitement of design as a tool for personal, civic, and social empowerment.

Tags: collaborative efforts, community model, conference planning, cooperative development, LEAD International, Motive Space Symposium, social empowerment, sustainable communities, WordPress

The Phillip Foster Farm and Jacknife-Zion-Horseheaven Historical Society of Eagle Creek, Oregon

We are beginning work with the Historical Society in August to help them develop a Long-Range Preservation Plan for their collections and buildings. We will also be offering workshops for staff and volunteers on collections care, housekeeping and implementing an environmental monitoring program for the buildings to develop baseline data for future projects.

Tags: collections care, environmental monitoring, Phillip Foster Farm, preservation planning, self studies, volunteer education

Our Principal, Sam Shogren, travels to Toronto in mid-August to receive his introductory training to the principals and practices of LEAD - Leadership for Environment and Development.  Shogren will be joining colleagues selected from throughout Canada at the Humber College Institute of Technology & Advanced Learning in Toronto for six days of workshops, lectures and hands-on expereince.  This first LEAD training session titled: “Sustainability in a Changing World: Energy and Cities” will teach LEAD’s fundamental tools for facilitating change in communities and organizations through multi-stakeholder process towards a sustainable future. The principlas and practices of sustainability will be explored both in the classroom and in the field with trips to Humber College’s new Centre for Urban Ecology, the Toronto Transit Commission, Toronto City Hall, Toronto Community Housing Corporation and their project at Regents Park–a billion dollar urban/public housing redevelopment project, and a visit to FOCUS - A grass roots youth collaborative and arts education project located within Regents Park.

Tags: arts education, Centre for Urban Ecology, humber college, lead training, public housing, regents park, Sustainability, sustainable future, toronto city hall, toronto community housing corporation, toronto transit commission, urban ecology

CONGRATULATIONS!!

Our President and Principal, Sam Shogren, has been selected by LEAD Canada to join the LEAD network and undertake the training required to become a LEAD Fellow.  LEAD, short for Leadership for Environment and Development, searches worldwide for outstanding people, developing their leadership potential through innovative training programs and working with them to mobilize others to make a real difference to the future of this planet.

LEAD Canada is a not-for-profit corporation, dedicated to furthering the goals of environmental, social and economic sustainability through training, projects and networking.  Created in 1994, LEAD Canada joined the global network set up by LEAD International, which was originally funded by the Rockefeller Foundation.  One of 13 member programs, LEAD Canada is comprised of about 90 of the 1800 LEAD Fellows living and working around the world.

The LEAD network, which was built over many years through its leadership training program, is made up of professionals from many backgrounds, including scientists, medical doctors, environmentalists, engineers, lawyers, economists, journalists, business and cultural specialists.

LEAD offices across the world deliver training programs that challenge traditional notions of leadership with progressive participatory techniques. Using LEAD’s experiential learning approach, our participants learn through multi-stakeholder dialogue, systems thinking, and inclusive cross-cultural processes.

Internationally LEAD Member Programs operate in Brazil, Canada, China, Commonwealth of Independent States, Europe, Francophone Africa, India, Indonesia, Japan, Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan, Southern Africa. These is currently no program in the United States.

Tags: economic sustainability, LEAD, LEAD International, rockefeller foundation, stakeholder dialogue, Sustainability, systems thinking

This was a fantastic conference organized, planned, and hosted by the graduate students in the Museology Program at the University of Washington. Close to 100 people attended representing museums and academic programs from both coasts, the Midwest, Canada and China!

Significant news for us here at Shogren Consulting is the warm reception for our Principal Sam Shogren’s paper titled: Museums, Starbucks and the Third Place Way: Civil Society and the Revisioned Museum. Presenting in the first general session, Sam’s concepts of museums as Third Places, curtailing construction of new museums to seek new community partnerships and the emphasis on sustainability were influential throughout the conference.

Look here shortly for a link to a version of the paper Sam presented.

Tags: arts & econmic development, arts economic impact, arts social impact, conferences, museums conference, Revisioning Museums, third place way, transforming museums, university of washington

We’re going to Bar Camp! Bar Camp Portland is an informal, “non conference” in which the participants develop the agenda and the sessions on Friday night and then spend Saturday and Sunday learning from each other. We are headed there to see what is new with WordPress, check out content management systems for web sites, to explore the WIKI Way and make new contections with Portland’s open source community.

Hope to see you there!

Tags: Bar Camp Portland, open source programming, social networking, WIKI, WordPress

Good Morning - Later today Sam will be presenting a draft of his paper for the Transforming Museums conference in Seattle before the students in the Arts Administration and Museum Studies Programs at the University of Oregon.

The paper’s draft titled: Museums, Starbucks, and the Third Place Way: the Museums Role in Civil Society proposes a new role for museums in our communities by   proposing that our real role is in fostering civil discourse concerning contemporary   topics and utilizing the museum’s collections to bring insights into the public debate.

Sam also argues that contemporary models of museum development and continued growth are not sustainable. The paper concludes with a new vision for museum in the 2st century as Third Places built upon a model of sustainability that envisions curtailed construction by the museum of new space (perhaps we have museum bloat?) that is replaced by community partnerships to build new museum spaces in new civic and commercial buildings taking the museum to the public.

Check back as a drafts of this exciting paper will be made available under the RESOURCES tab on this site!

Tags: arts & econmic development, arts managment, arts social impact, conferences, presentations, Revisioning Museums, Sustainability, third place way, third places, transforming museums, university of oregon, university of washington

Our Principal, Sam Shogren, was appointed to Washington County’s Arts, Heritage and Humanities Coalition by the Washington County Board of Supervisors in January of 2007. This month Sam assumed a leadership position within the Coalition by volunteering to steer the Coalition’s efforts at rewriting the Washington County’s Cultural Plan. The Coalition was formed at the County level in response to the formation of the Oregon Cultural Trust by the state legislature in 2001. Today the Coalition re-grants funds given the County by the Oregon Cultural Trust. And in accordance with the initial legislation of the Cultural Trust each county and tribe in Oregon must revisit and revise their cultural plan every 5 years. To contribute to the revision of the County plan, please contact Sam directly or through the County Cultural Coalition.

For more information please visit:

The Washington County Cultural Coalition Website at:
http://www.westsideculturalalliance.org/wccc/index.htm or,
the Oregon Cultural Trusts Website at:
http://www.culturaltrust.org/home/index.php

Tags: arts, arts managment, grants, heritage, humanities, legislation, oregon cultural trust, Washington County, WCAHHC

We are pleased to announce that Journeys of the Heart Adoption Services located in Hillsboro, Oregon joined a distinguished group of Hague Convention certified international adoption agencies on Febuary 29th! (see www.travel.state.gov/family/adoption/convention/convention_4169.html# for a complete list)

Sam has worked with the Journey’s staff and Board for the past 14 months on the Agency’s challange of facing a dual accreditation crisis. Not only did Journeys need to be reaccredited by the governing authority, the Council on Accreditation (COA), during 2007, but it faced the need to achieve a higher, potentially agency closing benchmark.

2007 marked the move by the US State Department to enact the rules need to comply with the Hague Convention on Intercountry Adoptions to fully implement the Convention on April 1, 2008. All American adoption agencies that wanted to continue to work internationally are required to meet new tougher standard and achieve a certification by COA and the US State Department as “Hague Accredited.”

Sam’s leadership and work with Journeys on both accreditations included:

• Coordination of staff efforts
• Coordination of leadership team effort
• Internal auditing of Agency compliance with policy
• Review, clarifying, streamlining and updating of all agency policies
• Review and completion of two 430 page internal self-studies
• Coordination of Stakeholder surveys
• Coordination of the On-Site visit by the COA Review Team
• Writing the agency’s new Hague Policy Manual
• Board briefings
• Agency Liaison to the accrediting body - the Council on Accreditation

Tags: Accreditation, agency compliance, agency liaison, COA, council on accreditation, governing authority, Hague, Hague Convention on Adoption, hillisboro oregon, internal auditing, international adoption agencies, journeys of the heart, self studies, Stakeholder