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 research support for the curatorial and exhibitions departments. In fy 2020/2021, the genealogy center served patrons both in person and through digital communication. 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 2020/2021, genealogy staff and volunteers completed 16 translation requests and 26 in-depth research projects, updated several in-house indexes and databases, updated more than 320 immigrant files in the vertical file collection, and added 17 wall of honor files. It has also received 17 donations for the library. Staff completed a grant-funded project to process the national archive of the danish sisterhood of america in 2021, resulting in 65 boxes of documents, photos, and 300 ledgers fully processed, cataloged and rehoused. Tours & promotion of a 19th century historical danish house.”

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“Book / tax depreciation difference -4”