Wednesday, August 19          

Building Better Boards
9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.     
($65 per person / $100 per (2) people. – includes lunch and materials. Register early! Space is limited to the first 40 participants. Please register by August 11.)

Building Better Boards is a hands-on, practical workshop that will provide the legal, theoretical and practical background for developing or re-tooling an effective board for your organization.  Through role-play exercises, small group activities and real life case studies, Building Better Board workshop participants will create their own customized toolkits that are immediately useful to their organizations.  The customized toolkit, practical workshop information, and exemplary resource materials all combined will result in participants readily being able to share and implement new strategies – within their individual organizations – for building, orienting, evaluating and maintaining effective and healthy boards.

Designed to be most effective when attended by board members and the executive director, this workshop is priced to make it more even more effective when two or more persons attend.  (Contact William Billingsley, AAAM Executive Director to register (3) or more persons.)

Workshop Facilitators:
Anne Butterfield, Principal, Anne Butterfield Company
Dr. Deborah L. Mack, The Museum Group

Brick by Brick: Preserving African American History through the Built Environment
9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
($75 – includes lunch and materials. Register early! Space is limited to the first 40 participants. Please register by August 11.)

This community-based workshop will focus on and take place in the historically African American neighborhood of Old South Baton Rouge.  An introductory discussion to the historic community tour will examine obstacles that have prevented African American communities from preserving their histories and built environment, including urban renewal, gentrification, desegregation, great migration, race riots as well as more recent challenges.  Key Old South Baton Rouge community members will serve as workshop participants and leaders, and will describe their roles in the community history and documentation process.  Brick by Brick will conclude with practical pointers and best practice recommendations for preserving African American communities.  Each workshop participant will receive a portfolio of useful instructional and follow-up materials that provide information and support for preservation efforts.  This AAAM workshop is co-sponsored and supported by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the Louisiana Trust for Historic Preservation, and the Foundation for Historical Louisiana.
                                           
Workshop Facilitators: 
Joseph McGill, Jr., Program Officer, Southern Office, National Trust for Historic Preservation
John E. Hankins, AAAM 2009 Conference Program Committee