The Danish Immigrant Museum

“Return is emailed to the executive director and board members before being filed in order for everyone to review and comment prior to filing.”

“Board members abstain from any decisions involving potential conflicts of interest.”

“Executive director receives a review from the board of directors annually. At that time, the board determines salary for the coming year.”

“Remaining employees receive annual performance reviews conducted by the executive director at which time compensation is determined.”

“Governing documents, conflict of interest policy, and financial statements are made available to the public upon request. In addition, copies of the most recently filed forms 990 are available on guidestar's website.”

“The organization receives a significant amount of support in the form of goods and services from donors and volunteers in the organization's operations, fund raising, admissions desk, museum shop, and museum tours.”

“The genealogy center of the museum of danish america, located on main street in elk horn, collects print, visual, microform and digital materials on danish immigrants and danish americans, their communities and organizations. It also provides information on relevant genealogical resources as well as research and translation services to north american and danish patrons both in-house and long-distance. The department also provides support services for the curatorial and exhibitions departments. In fy 2019/2020, the genealogy center had visitors from all across the world, including denmark, while many other individuals contacted the center via phone, email, and mail. Outreach activities included newspaper vignettes, articles written for the america letter, presentations, social media interactions, and meetings with other danish-american archives and organizations. Staff consists of 1 full-time librarian/manager, a .8 fte researcher, occasional interns, and over a dozen local and long-distance volunteers. In fy 2019/2020, genealogy staff and volunteers completed 20 translation requests and 18 in-depth research projects, created several new in-house indexes and databases, updated more than 150 immigrant files in the vertical file collection, added over 20 wall of honor files, and created many more new ones. It has also received 40 donations for the library and collections. Thanks to a new hrdp grant funding the danish sisterhood of america archive project, 275 ledgers and 5 linear feet of archival documents have been cataloged and processed.”

“Public outreach activities bring the museum's mission to its national audience and membership. Museum staff engage constituents at public festivals, lectures and presentations, workshops, and receptions across the country. During the past fiscal year, museum staff interacted with audience members in 11 communities in 7 states. The museum also engaged audience members through internet-based and electronic media. Over 300,000 unique visitors came to the museum's website, over 7000 people subscribe to the monthly e-newsletter, and more than 10,000 people follow the museum's facebook page. Tours & promotion of a 19th century historical danish house.”

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