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Good Morning-
Your twenty-eight years old and this morning you woke pumped to launch your budding opera career...only you find yourself laying on the floor unable to stand with multiple infections hitting major organs throughout your body. You have spent over ten years preparing for today...three major productions are counting on you to take the stage. You will find yourself over the coming weeks seeing doctors and specialists - no doctor can tell you what's wrong. <g data-gr-id="2282" id="2282" class="gr_ gr_2282 gr-alert gr_gramm Grammar multiReplace">You're</g> forced to cancel your professional debut to seek answers to your sudden disability? What would you do? If your Molly - you start Molly's Fund to educate young women about Lupus - a severe form of autoimmune disease.
I am working here in Portland Oregon with Molly's Fund, a nonprofit health education foundation, which seeks to travel a national exhibition on autoimmune disease and Lupus. Here are the specifics:
---Exhibit Design: OMSI - the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry. ---Exhibit Fabrication: OMSI
---Exhibit Curriculum (In Planning): OMSI
---Exhibit Funding: Molly's Fund
---Security Level: Low
---National Media Partner: I Heart Radio
---In-kind Local Media Support: $250,000 per community (anticipated)
---Loan Duration: 3 to 4 months/city
Molly's Fund is looking for institutions who seek to boost their community involvement and who wish to take another step down the path of the transforming museum. They want to engage each local community in a discussion concerning women's health and a disease that hits many target audience of museums including preteens, teens, and minority populations.
As a museum professional with over 25 years in the field, I see this potential exhibit a realization of what our field has debated now for over 10 years. How do we become civically enaged and help build our communities? How do museum's become "Third Places?" How do we find relevance?
Would your museum / cultural center / science center / children's museum / university museum be interested in hosting this exhibition sometime in the next five years? What would you want to see in an exhibit of this nature?
Please let me know so we as a field can shape this exciting opportunity.
SAM
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Samuel Shogren MPA
Shogren Consulting Group, LLC
"Driving Orgnaizational Change for Mission Driven Organizations"
Portland, Oregon
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