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

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