EventsGuild.com is a Web-guide that profiles and promotes the culture and nature-based fields' unique qualifications as events hosts and entrepreneurs. As a Guild member, your site will be promoted worldwide.

Your "GUILD GUIDE" Web page profile is complimentary, underwritten by The Institute for Venture Philanthropy at Higginbotham Museum for the purpose of providing for the greater good of history and nature-based venues. "Sneak Peek" illustrates the GUILD GUIDE's ability to effectively become an essential portal to your venue.

After seeing your EventsGuild.com listing, Guild-Guide users are directed to your Web site, acquainting them with your prime stewardship identity.

Although we have the world's most desirable and unique events attributes, assets and services, our venues typically have been undervalued and under-promoted. Consequently, those who can become our most avid supporters have yet to discover our venues. Instead of thinking of our facilities as viable hosting locations, event and program development seekers typically rent an array of commercial, expensive and pedestrian places and spaces.

Research conducted by The Institute for Venture Philanthropy at Higginbotham Museum has revealed that our historic built and nature-based venues are relatively unknown by the growing populations seeking special or private event sites with dedicated stewardship and sustainability identities.

Throughout the world, stewards of cultural and natural sites are respected and celebrated because of their roles as protectors and interpreters of their unique identities. However, their ad-hoc roles as special event hosts have been traditionally treated as a community service rather than a fully developed major income stream. EventsGuild.com provides you the opportunity to test the waters, envisioning events hosting as a fully realized enterprise.

As the facilitator and promoter of this specific and discrete operational activity, EventsGuild.com provides for you and on your behalf, sophisticated outreach, public relations and cultural entrepreneurial development expertise. Since your budget and institutional priorities are rightfully centered around the goals and objectives of your prime mission, Events Guild
membership strategically avoids having a stewardship identity become confused or diluted with a collateral identity as a host of private celebrations, corporate meetings and other special event experiences for which you rent-out your facilities.

It becomes clear that those who hold their special events at your venue are purchasing a highly privileged, highly prized experience and, as a result, are providing critically needed financial support to your well-cultivated, noble mission.

EventsGuild.com simultaneously fulfills two missions: one serving Events Guild members and the other serving
Events Guild users:

By compiling hundreds of Events Guild members into a user-friendly, descriptive Web Guild-Guide, the history, heritage, conservation, preservation and sustainability fields gain recognition and appreciation – significantly increasing
their earned-income potential, while receiving exposure to supporters, contributors, donors and philanthropists.

With readily accessible exposure to hundreds of Events Guild members, users of the Guild-Guide see images and
detailed information, profiling an exciting new world of possibilities for special events and experience hosting.

Two additional resources – that benefit both members and users – are a Resource Directory and a Museum Missions Directory. The Resource Directory is a compilation of the best associations, trusts, councils, foundations, endowments, societies, and organizations that serve their relevant needs and interests. The Museum Missions Directory is a compilation of the missions of all Events Guild members for the purpose of encouraging supporters, contributors, donors and philanthropists to discover causes worthy of their support.

The Institute for Venture Philanthropy at Higginbotham Museum (www.HigginbothamHouse.com) has originated and
underwritten this initiative.

If your site qualifies, your GUILD GUIDE Web page profile is free. That's right – no cost whatsoever! All targeted venue categories are listed on the Registration Questionnaire.

We will also provide technical assistance to those wanting to upgrade their organization's home Web site. It is in our
vested interest that your site be the best it can be. Ultimately, Events Guild's credibility rests with the site’s quality.

If you desire, we will professionally critique your home Web site, identifying its aesthetic and technical strengths and its
weaknesses. We will offer specific suggestions on how best to optimize your site's potential, respective to your mission
and aspirations. This consultation will have a nominal fee, and again, we are committed to making this service
affordable.

We are currently registering Events Guild members.

 

So, the sooner you register for an Events Guild membership, the sooner we will have the requisite participation.
We are eager to have "a rising tide lift all boats." We anticipate that this will occur Spring 2010.

 

A critical mass of Guild members is required for achieving user credibility. Web visitors from throughout the world who seek information about activity, event and program possibilities at your venue must see that the EventsGuild.com membership is noteworthy and viable, with strong representation of sites within the geographic regions for which
they seek details.

Simply complete and submit the on-line questionnaire.

Ten years ago, a small house museum was a patient in critical condition. Triage resulted in the alignment of a
"patient heal thyself" mission with promising experimental therapy that called for a pragmatic plan to gain fiscal self-reliance. "Provide for your own needs by providing for the needs of others" became The Institute for Venture Philanthropy at Higginbotham Museum – a successful exhibition facilitation service providing sponsorship advocacy for the museum field.

Translating an entrepreneurial desire into an effective means of addressing the undercapitalization of the entire stewardship field has become "globalization of the local" and the centerpiece for the Institute's most evolved and ambitious philanthropic service to date. Exclusively serving the development needs of the history, heritage, conservation, preservation and sustainability fields, EventsGuild.com is the re-imagining of a Web site as a Web-Guide, providing advocacy, technical assistance, and sophisticated promotion and marketing fulfillment to institutions and organizations needing to diversify their bases, audiences, and methods of support.