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Breaking News& Education& LEAD& Museums & Historical Societies& Planning & Vision& Resources& arts managment& author& sustainability& sustainability09 Aug 2008 07:18 am
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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.

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Breaking News& Education& LEAD& Resources& author15 Jul 2008 07:00 am

LEAD Canada Logo

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.

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Museum Director& Resume01 Jan 2008 08:57 pm
Working Waterfront Museum, 705 Dock Street, Tacoma, WA. 98402 (970.925.3721)

(10/2002-7/2003)

Served as part-time contract administrator & consultant to the Board of the Working Waterfront Museum. Oversaw and managed daily operations, completed Phase 1 construction project serving as Construction Superintendent, Owner’s Representative and Laborer; served as Exhibit Director opening first professional museum exhibition (1,600 sq.ft.), and worked with Board to rescue and preserve a 45,000 ft2, National Register of Historic Places eligible maritime warehouse.

Programs & Exhibitions:

  • Institutional & program planning
  • Construction Superintendent (supervision of trades and unions, and exhibition volunteers, assessment of work done)
  • Coordination of project with lead architect
  • Developed Interpretive Themes
  • Sought out and Secured Objects and Graphics for Interpretive Exhibit
  • Created exhibit design, specified fabrication and installation.
  • Installed windows, exhibit fixtures, artifacts, and applied finished surfaces.
  • Curatorial & collections management
Administration & Development Activities:

  • Clarification of vision and mission
  • Supervised and coordinated creation of new institutional graphic identity
  • Board relations and development
  • Volunteers and staff supervision
  • Budget management
  • Donor and foundation relations
  • Grants management
  • Membership list management & evaluation of new membership management software
  • Solicitation of discounts & donated materials
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Publications/Reports& Resume01 Jan 2008 08:56 pm

Exhibit Catalog

Lace and Leaves: The Art of Dolly Smith. Editor. Penobscot Marine Museum, Searsport, ME. 1994.

Articles

“MEG, EMP [the Experience Music Project] and the Changing History Museum.” History News, Nashville, Tenn.: American Association for State and Local History, Vol. 56 #4, Autumn (Dec.) 2001.

“Preserving a Maritime Heritage: The Penobscot Marine Museum Turns Sixty.”Camden, ME.: Maine Boat and Harbors, November, 1996.

“Introduction.” Penobscot Bay: The Land, The Bay and The People. Rockland, ME.: The Island Institute, 1994.

“Historical Perspective.” Penobscot Bay: The Land, The Bay and The People. Rockland, ME.: The Island Institute, 1994.

“Working the Bay.” Camden, ME.: Maine Boat and Harbors, August, 1992.

Collateral Materials

Newsletter and Event Calendar, (expansion and redesign) for the Aspen Historical Society.

Exterior Interpretive Site Signage, with Dave Puelle, VIA Marketing and Design, Portland, ME. for the Penobscot Marine Museum, 1996.

Museum Brochure (4 color), with Dave Puelle, VIA Marketing and Design, Portland, ME. for the Penobscot Marine Museum, 1996.

Campus Map (2 color), with Dave Puelle, VIA Marketing and Design, Portland, ME. for the Penobscot Marine Museum, 1996.

Exhibition Poster, “Lace and Leaves: The Art of Dolly Smith” with Russell Dockx, Dockx Designs, Camden, ME. for the Penobscot Marine Museum, 1994.

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Education& Resume01 Jan 2008 08:00 pm
M.P.A., Public Administration with a Concentration in Nonprofit Management

Graduated March 2005 (60 credit hours, quarter system)

Division of Public Administration, Mark O. Hatfield School of Government,

Portland State University, Portland, OR 97207 2000-2005

Coursework included: Strategic Planning, Public Human Resource Management, Public Budgeting, Administrative Theory & Behavior, Public Policy: Formation & Process, Administrative Ethics and Values, Administrative Law and Policy, Analytical Methods, Introduction to Public Administration, Case Analysis, Values Based Management.

Research & Policy Focus: Preservation, Arts and Culture, Cultural Tourism, Civil Society

Advanced Certificate in Nonprofit Management

Advanced Certificate in Nonprofit Development

Institute for Nonprofit Management, Mark O. Hatfield School of Government,

Portland State University, Portland, OR 97207 Sept. 2004

Coursework included: Grant-writing, Financial Management of Nonprofit Organizations, History & Foundations of Nonprofit Organizations, Introduction to Nonprofit Management, Fundraising for Nonprofit Organizations, Advanced Financial Strategies, Advanced Fundraising: Major & Planned Giving, Managing Nonprofit Boards (Governance)

Attendee, Leadership Institute for History Organizations

American Association for State and Local History, Nashville, TN June 2000

Topic Covered included: Leadership & Management, Mission, Vision & Planning, Governance, Organizational Change, Resource Management, Fund Development, Human Resource Management

Certificate, The Seminar for Historical Administration

Sponsored by: AAM, AASLH, National Park Service, National Trust for

Historic Preservation and Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Williamsburg, VA Oct.1997

Topic included: Leadership, Museum Management Theory & Practice, Managing Change, Cultural Tourism, Technology in Museum, Evaluation, Interpretation & Public Program, Marketing, Research in Museums, Exhibitions, Legal and Ethical Issues, Publications, Trustee Relations

Readings in Maritime History (3 semester credit hours)

University of Maine, Orono, Maine 04469 1992

Coursework included: History &Historiography of American & World Maritime Historical Studies.

Certificate, Preserving the Past: A Short Course in Archives Management

Association of New England Archivists, Boston, Massachusetts 02134 1990

Coursework included: Archival Theory and Practice, Arrangement & Description of Historical Materials, Records Management Policy & Practice, Records Destruction, Curation

Certification, Museum Studies

University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716 1990

Courses included: Leadership & Management of Museums, Historic Properties, Museum Education, Historical Structures, Curatorship-Collections Management, History and Foundations of Museums.

Graduate Work in American History & Museum Studies (42 semester credit hours)

University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716 1986-1989

Courses included: Labor History, Colonial American History, Industrial History, 19th C. America, Intellectual History, American Vernacular Architecture, American Material Culture & Graduate Writing Seminars.

Co-Instructor (Graduate Teaching Assistant): Museums and Historical Archaeology with Dr. David Orr, Mid-Atlantic Regional Archaeologist, National Park Service. Course taught at the Hagley Museum and Library where I taught archaeological excavation and field documentation, archaeological laboratory methods and artifact handling.

Research Focus: American Material Culture, Vernacular Architecture, Industrial Workers Housing, Colonial and Industrial Mill Technology & the Industrial Revolution, Irish Industrial Workers, Public Archaeology & Museum Interpretation, Commercial Archaeology, American Ceramics

Graduate Work in Anthropology and Historical Archaeology (21 semester credit hours)

The College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia 23187-8795 1983-1984

Courses included: Social and Cultural Anthropology, History of Archaeology, Archaeology Theory and Methods, Historical Archaeology, Historical Ethnography, Biological Anthropology, Archaeological Conservation, Cultural Resource Management, American Material Culture

Research Focus: Historical Ethnography of Colonial Maine, Colonial Industrial Technologies, Colonial Settlement Patterns, Historic Preservation, Commercial Archaeology

B.A. Anthropology (with a focus on Archaeology)

Ripon College, Ripon, Wisconsin 54971 1982

Courses included: Social and Cultural Anthropology, Biological Anthropology, History of Archaeology, Archaeology Theory and Methods, Mesoamerica, American History, Scientific Photography, Astronomy, Physics. Psychology, Comparative and World Religions, Music Performance

Sturgeon Bay High School

Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin 54235 1978

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