Aligning Government, Not-For-Profits, Business, and Community
History ♦ Art ♦ Preservation ♦ Education
Aligning Government, Not-For-Profits, Business, and Community
History ♦ Art ♦ Preservation ♦ Education
Preserve and Protect the Past for the Future
Principal Investigator
Dr. Georgette Lovette Grier-Key is the Executive Director of Eastville Community Historical Society, a National Trust for Historic Preservation Diversity Scholar & Arcus Fellow. Dr. Grier- Key is also the public historian & curator for the Incorporated Village of Port Jefferson’s Drowned Meadow Cottage Museum .
A Snap Shot
SPECIALIZATION:
Not-for-profit Management/ Leadership and Small Businesses Organizations in sectors of the Arts’, Culture, Humanities, Religion, Advocacy, Community Development, Education, Healthcare, and Environmental
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Management • Donor Development • Strategic Planning • Government & Foundation • Social Media and Direct Mail Marketing • Public Hearing Presentations • Multi-Million Dollar Budgets • Board Development • High End Event Planning • Grant Identification and Proposal Writing • Program Development • Major Gift Solicitation • Resource Development • Partnership, Collaboration and Coalition Building.
CONSULTING FACILITATION METHODOLOGIES:
♦ Intellectual Entrepreneurship ♦ Continuous Improvement ♦ Appreciative Inquiry ♦ Conflict for Positive Change ♦ Consensus-Based Decision Making ♦ Multi-Cultural Competence Capacity Building ♦ Dialogue across Differences
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Reconstructing the Black experience, the historic life and patterns of Africa Diasporas of the North America (particularly of Long Island, New York), with a focus on pre through post Northern slavery and Free Black communes. Through various disciplines retracing various intersections of multi-ethnicity, religious institutions, great migration, post civil war, art, advertisement, labor, war, publications, policy, material culture, gender, race, and class structure and its translation in education and preservation outlets today through advocacy.
♦ Not-for–Profit and Small Business ♦
Not-for-Profit:
Board Assessment and Development; Corporate Services- Bylaws, Policies; Executive Director Assessment; Proposal Evaluations, Preparation, Identifications and Implementation; Strategic Planning Facilitation, and Institutional Sustainability.
Curatorial Services, Exhibitions, Archival Services, Interpretive Planning, Historical Research, and Collections Management.
Small Business:
Articles of Incorporation; Proposal management; RFP (request for proposal) planning and writing; RFQ (request for qualifications) planning and writing; Bid writing, management and coordination.
Real Property Services: Full Real Estate Brokerage; Historic Property Preservation & Restoration Planning, Research/Writing & House Histories; Property Management; Relocation Services; Facilitate appraisals, and Title searches.
Advocacy
Organize grassroots campaigns to help effect change at the local, state, and federal level. This includes advocating for preservation funding, saving historic places and influencing key legislation that protects cultural heritage.
Preservation
Historical documentation can be applied in several ways, in particular to evaluate significance for rehabilitation plans, interpretive programs, and preservation documentation for threatened property destruction. Work in conjunction with historians, researchers, preservationists, architects, and historical archeologists. Research is also used planning and to gather information needed to identify and evaluate properties. Preservation services include; developing historical documentation objectives, research design, methods, integrating results, reporting results , and recommendations.
Education / Courses Taught:
Nassau County: History and Government
Women Leaders in the African-American Civil Rights Movement in the U.S.
U.S.A. 1945- Present
History of the United States I
History of the United States II
The Afro-Caribbean World
History of the Black Woman
The African American Family
African American History I
African American History II
African Art and Culture
♦ DR. GRIER-KEY'S ♦ PROFILE ♦
Non- profit management specialist equipped with a wealth of experience from both business and non-profit management that provides consultant services to various organizations with insight, knowledge and capacity. Providing unique capabilities such as organizational and leadership development, strategic and business planning, board development and evaluation, fundraising, marketing, financial management and human resource development to small and medium sized organizations throughout the New York State area. Dr. Grier-Key effectively demonstrates process improvement initiatives skills an incorporation of systems modalities.
Leadership/Affiliations/ Service
Museum Association of New York, Board Trustee
Preservation League of New York, Board Trustee
New York History Journal, Advisory Board Member
NAACP Brookhaven Town, Branch President
Long Island Housing Services Inc., Board Trustee
NYS Historian's Revolutionary NY 250th Work Group, Member
Long Island Historical Societies, President
Hampton’s Art Network, Member
Jupiter Hammon Project Advisory Council, Member
Women's Rights Alliance of New York State, Member
Awards:
New York State Senate, Brentwood, NY
Certificate of Recognition, February 2015
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Islip Branch, Brentwood, NY
Living Legacy Award, January 2015
Of Colors Art Collective, Patchogue, NY
Community Impact Achievement Award, February 2014
The Greater Gordon Heights Chamber of Commerce
Special Recognition for Service, May 2012
Brookhaven Rosa Parks Association, Inc., East Setauket, NY
Agent of Change Award for Leadership. November 2010
Scholarships:
New York Council for the Humanities
Invitational Facilitation Retreat Participant, February 2013
Museums In Conversation, Albany NY
Scholarship Award. April 2012
National Trust for Preservation, Buffalo NY
New York Scholar. October 2011
Immigration Delegation, Oaxaca, MX
Delegate. October 2011
Institute at Sagamore, Oneonta, NY
Accepted Applicant. September 2011
Events
Dec. 1-3, 2020
Dec. 1-3, 2020
Conference
3:30pm - 4:45pm
Marriott Syracuse Downtown
Event Details
Dec. 1-3, 2020
Dec. 1-3, 2020
Conference
The Landmark Society of Western New York, Preservation Association of Central New York, Preservation League of New York State, New York Stat...
3:30pm - 4:45pm
Marriott Syracuse Downtown
April 10-13, 2021
April 10-13, 2021
Museum Association of New York
8:30am - 5:00pm
Event Details
April 10-13, 2021
April 10-13, 2021
Museum Association of New York
The Power of Partnership
In Corning, NY this conference will explore and celebrate the power of bringing people together to advance our orga...
8:30am - 5:00pm
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Dr. Grier-Key is a talented scholar and artist who gives of her time, resources and expertise to so many communities. She is dedicated to building the body of knowledge and research about Long Island History and American History.
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