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2010 Annual Report(PDF) FOUNDATION FOR THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES 2010 ANNUAL REPORT TABLE OF CONTENTS 3 2010 Successes 13 National Archives Experience Campaign Donors 14 2010 Annual Fund Donors 18 Financials 20 Looking Ahead INSIDE BACK Board of Directors COVER 11 ABOVE: Visitors explore “Discovering the Civil War” at the exhibition opening. Photo by Margot Schulman PREVIOUS PAGES: Records and photographs featured in “Discovering the Civil War” exhibition and screen shots from the DocsTeach website. Images courtesy of the National Archives. 2010 SUCCESSES 2010 was an extremely good year for the 2010 has been a year of transformation Foundation for the National Archives. I am at the National Archives as we work to proud to report that the Foundation was improve the way our agency meets the needs able to provide approximately $3.5 million of our customers and our staff, update our for innovative educational products and IT tools and skills to perform our jobs better programming to help teach Americans in the digital age, and make our agency about the depth and diversity of records a great place to work, where we learn from here and the importance of the work of each other, as well as from our clientele, the National Archives in preserving our history. volunteers, and visitors. The Foundation is extremely proud of its role in the design, At this critical moment in our agency’s history, I am proud of the fabrication, and promotion of the National Archives Experience’s great partnership we have built with the Foundation for the National “Discovering the Civil War” exhibition at the National Archives Building Archives. Thanks to the work of the National Archives staff and our in Washington, D.C., in 2010. The exhibition itself, an accompanying partners at the Foundation, as well as the support of private donors book published by the Foundation, related products in the Archives like you, millions of people from around the world are visiting the Shop, fresh lesson plans in the Boeing Learning Center and online, National Archives Building in Washington, D.C., and our regional and our numerous marketing initiatives were made possible through facilities and Presidential libraries and museums around the country. generous contributions from our loyal donors like you. In 2011 and They are seeing our traveling exhibitions at venues throughout the beyond, the exhibition will travel around the United States, educating nation, and they are tapping the incredible resources of the National more Americans about the work of the National Archives. Archives through a growing number of online initiatives. 2010 also marked a major advancement in our efforts to expand the In 2010, we have become a leader in the use of social media in Archives’ innovative online offerings. The Foundation helped develop, government, with two dozen Facebook pages, eight blogs, and a build, and promote the revolutionary new website, www.DocsTeach.org, Wiki-hub for researchers. More than 1,200 of our historical videos which allows teachers and students of all ages to interact online and are now available on YouTube. Readers can see our flagship learn about history, civics, science, and math through the Archives’ publication, Prologue, through their mobile phones or iPads, records. Teachers around the country have embraced the website, and thousands of our photos are now available online through and we thank them for responding by creating their own online Flickr and Pictopia. We even have a Wikipedian in Residence! activities and sharing them with each other. Our National Declassification Center is clearing the backlog of With your support, the Foundation worked in 2010 to enrich the visitor millions of pages of classified documents to get these records experience at the Archives for museum visitors and researchers. declassified and on the shelves for researchers as quickly as The Foundation continued its support of annual museum activities, possible. We are digitizing the entire 1940 Census in preparation including the National Archives’ July 4th celebration and Constitution for its April 2012 opening, and continue to work with private Day, and we were happy to provide advertising and audience partners and volunteers who have been digitizing records relating development funding for museum exhibits and related programs in to the Civil War, the Holocaust, and the Vietnam War. the Lawrence F. O’Brien Gallery and the William G. McGowan Theater. And finally, thanks to the support of the Foundation, our research To assist researchers, the Foundation was pleased to support the rooms have gone wireless! installation of wireless connectivity in the National Archives’ research rooms in Washington, D.C., and at the National Archives at College As we face the challenges ahead, we are proud to continue our Park, Maryland. We also continued our support of the annual strong partnership with the Foundation. The efforts of the Board National Archives Genealogy Fair, bringing together record numbers and staff of the Foundation to promote the National Archives help of researchers and archivists in their quests to discover their own us to reach new audiences and educate the public about our family histories. mission: to preserve the most important records of our democracy and make them accessible to the people. I invite you to join us in celebrating these successes of 2010, all made possible by your support. We look forward to continuing our I look forward to working with the Foundation to build on this work in 2011. outstanding partnership in 2011. Ken Lore, Chairman and President David S. Ferriero, Archivist of the United States 3 Visitors explore “Discovering the Civil War” at the exhibition opening. Photos by Margot Schulman Foundation Supports “Discovering the Civil War” Exhibition The Foundation was proud to partner This video feature attracted a wide range Archives’ steps, and advertising in with the National Archives Experience’s of audiences touring the exhibition with Washington, D.C., publications, exhibition team to launch the landmark its impressive graphics and unique style metro stations, bus shelters, and on exhibition, “Discovering the Civil War,” of presenting the story. the sides of buses. shown in the Lawrence F. O’Brien Gallery in 2010. The exhibition, which begins Other interactives in the exhibit included The Foundation also hosted the a national tour in 2011, explores our a video welcoming message from an exhibition’s opening and preview, nation’s most defining conflict from “archivist” working in the stacks of the treating members and supporters to a variety of angles and viewpoints, National Archives, and a social an elegant reception in the Rotunda through the unrivaled collection of networking tool allowing visitors to Galleries, as well as a curator-guided tour. Civil War documents in the National see the connections between friends, Archives. This exhibit focuses on the classmates, and military buddies later The Foundation thanks AT&T, Karen war’s impact on everyday people and separated by the war. Visitors to the Pritzker and The Seedlings Foundation, emphasizes that by searching through exhibit were also encouraged to use Richard Eliasberg, Retired Lt. Col. the Archives’ records, one can learn more their own electronic devices to “tweet” William Konze and Alice Konze, Marvin about well-known events and discover their reactions to the exhibit and to Weissberg and Judith Morris, Ken and Pat previously unknown stories. ask questions, which were answered in Lore, and Russell and the late Budge real time by Archives volunteers. Weidman for their generous support of The design, fabrication and shipping “Discovering the Civil War.” of the exhibit was provided by private In addition to publishing the exhibition dollars raised by the Foundation. This catalog, Discovering the Civil War, the partnership has created the largest Foundation developed a line of other traveling exhibit ever to come out of the Civil War-related merchandise, including Archives and includes originals, facsimiles Civil War-themed stationery, a postcard and computer interactives, all inviting our book of Civil War-era maps, and guests to step into the shoes of a researcher paperweights and jewelry incorporating and discover more about the Civil War. the authentic “red tape” once used to bind Civil War-era government One of the computer-based interactives records together. from the exhibit includes an animated video chronicling the fascinating story The Foundation’s marketing team of the CSS Alabama, a Confederate supported the exhibit through press warship sunk off the coast of France. events, outdoor banners above the 4 DocsTeach at The Boeing Learning Center. Photo by the Center for the National Archives Experience DocsTeach (www.DocsTeach.org) On September 20, 2010, in The Boeing a unique classroom, create a brand new Learning Center, the Foundation and activity with its own web address from the National Archives’ education team scratch, and save and organize activities introduced our latest online venture, in an account to share with students. DocsTeach, to members of the history After participating in an activity, the site education community. Teachers allows students to submit their work to nationwide quickly responded with their teacher via e-mail. DocsTeach is enthusiasm and resounding participation. revolutionary because the interactive is the lesson. The DocsTeach website, created with support from Texas Instruments, features thousands of documents from the The seven tools featured on DocsTeach are designed to teach holdings of the National Archives, as well as a suite of clever tools that encourage specific historical thinking skills, including weighing evidence, users to interact with and learn more about those documents. Though interpreting data, and focusing on details. primarily designed for teachers and students, the site has been very well received by other visitors who love to At the event in September, we asked learn about history. One blogger noted, the education community’s help in “This site makes me wish I were a promoting the site and encouraging history teacher!” teachers to use it.
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