Kansas African American Museum, Inc.

The purpose of the Kansas African American museum's funded project is to (1) build the museum's capacity to provide a youth program in public history; (2) expand volunteers and docents through a new recruitment and training program; (3) upgrade the collections management system; and (4) address collection care and security needs identified in its CAP (Conservation Assessment Program) report. Specifically, the project will create a public history youth program in partnership with the University of Kansas Libraries, serving sixty youth annually; recruit and train twenty-five volunteer docents annually; implement the PastPerfect Collection Management System for much of its collections; and identify the most critical CAP recommendations and fully implement at least forty percent of them by October 2015.