Welcome!
Assessing the origins, ancestors, and older forms of our organizations can offer a foundation responsive action. The Institutional Genealogy Framework Subscription is designed to support you in that process, whether you want to use it to:
Strengthen audience-building initiatives,
Inform interpretive planning,
Create responsive collections plans,
Deepen capacity for internal and external collaboration,
Set equity and inclusion goals, and/or
Prepare for strategic planning.
The Institutional Genealogy Framework Subscription includes access to all six learning modules below as well as 1 hour per month of virtual coaching with me. Click on the images below to navigate to each module. You will be asked to enter your subscriber password for access. Visit my ‘Contact Page’ and click the ‘Book a Meeting with Me’ button to schedule your coaching sessions. You can also access my calendar scheduling app directly here.
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Introduction
This section offers an overview of the Framework, illustrative images, and considerations for the process ahead.
1) Get Started
This module offers key questions and two activity templates designed to support your team’s ability to establish baseline awareness for what you know now about your organization’s history, what you want to know more about, and clarify your goals for learning more.
2) Inventory
This module offers key questions and one activity template your team can adapt to suit your process of identifying public records, archival material, oral histories, historic site information, and other sources you can use to learn more about your organization’s history.
3) Synthesis
This module offers key questions and two activity templates to help you draft an expanded historic narrative based on all you have researched so far.
4) Interpretation
This module offers key questions and suggestions for different modes of receiving feedback on your expanded historic narrative and research.
5) Analysis
This module includes key questions and one activity template designed to help you identify a course of action—applying new awareness of the past to current and future equity efforts.