October 2018 #OHMuseumChat Resources – Building Economic Growth in Your Community

The Ohio Museums Association (@OhioMuseums) held our October ‪#‎OHMuseumChat - Thursday, October 18 on Twitter. Thank you to all the individuals and organizations that participated in this conversation!

For October's topic we discussed Building Economic Growth in Your Community.

Have questions you didn't have a chance to ask during the chat?

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Weren't able to make it to this month's chat, but want to stay in the loop on the great conversation with other museum professionals? We have you covered! You can find a summary with details from the October #‎OHMuseumChat here.

Below are resources related to this month's chat topic, "Building Economic Growth in Your Community"

• American Alliance of Museums
  •  Press Release. “New National Data Reveals the Economic Impact of Museums is More than Double Previous Estimates,” by American Alliance of Museums. February 13, 2018.
    https://www.aam-us.org/2018/02/13/new-national-data-reveals-the-economic-impact-of-museums-is-more-than-double-previous-estimates/

• Americans for the Arts
  • Blog. “5 Key Ways the Arts Drive Exonomic & Community Development,” by Sarah Sidman. February 4, 2016.
    https://blog.americansforthearts.org/2016/02/04/5-key-ways-the-arts-drive-economic-community-development
• Forbes
  • Article. “How Economic Development Can Build Community Wealth,” by Anne Field. August 28, 2015.
    https://www.forbes.com/sites/annefield/2015/08/28/how-economic-development-can-build-community-wealth/#709c8a845384
• Government of Manitoba, Canada
  • Handbook. “Community Economic Development for the Local Economic Development Officer,” by Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Development.
    https://www.gov.mb.ca/jec/rned/pdfs/localofficer.pdf
• Institute of Museum and Library Services
  • Building Sustainable Communities resources
    https://www.imls.gov/issues/national-initiatives/building-sustainable-communities
• Project for Public Spaces
  • Blog. “5 Ways Arts Projects Can Improve Struggling Communities,” by Tom Borrup. January 1, 2009.
    https://www.pps.org/article/artsprojects
• Seton Hall University
  • Dissertations and Theses. “Museums and Urban Revitalization: Regional Museums as Catalysts for Physical, Economic, and Social Regeneration of Local Communities,” by Robin Foster Westervelt. 2010.
    https://scholarship.shu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https://www.google.com/&httpsredir=1&article=3541&context=dissertations
• University of North Carolina, School of Government
  • Blog. “Museums as Community Development: Whiteville, NC,” by Community and Economic Development Program Interns and Students. June 4, 2015.
    https://ced.sog.unc.edu/museums-as-community-development-whiteville-nc/
• Useful Community Development
  • Economic Development resource page from Useful Community Development.
    https://www.useful-community-development.org/economic-development.html
  • Arts and Economic Development resource page from Useful Community Development.
    https://www.useful-community-development.org/arts-and-economic-development.html

Thanks again for a fantastic October chat! We hope you can join us for our November #‎OHMuseumChat,  Thursday, November 15 as we discuss "Planned Giving."

Have a great topic for an upcoming chat? Drop us a line at [email protected] or tweet @OhioMuseums and let us know!