National Capital Trolley Museum launches our first Power2Give campaign for 2015....

"Make My Windows Less Cranky"

Campaign Goal $6,818

During this year, the Museum is celebrating its 50-year relationship with Montgomery Parks. In preparation for the gala event this fall, the Museum anticipates returning D.C. Transit System 1101 to public service on its demonstration railway with fully functioning window cranks, new window glass as needed, and fresh ceiling paint.

Over the 77-year history of D.C. Transit System 1101, the window crank mechanisms have become difficult to impossible to use. Volunteers are ready to open ceiling areas to clean and lubricate these mechanisms. They are also ready to remove window frames for re-glazing and to re-install these frames once they are professionally re-glazed. Large sections of the ceiling have lost their white paint and opening the ceiling to service the windows will crack more of the paint. Hiring a professional to prepare and paint this difficult surface area is last goal of this project.

Please support the Museum's volunteers and help return a Washington street car to public service at the Museum.

Please assist with your donation for Make My Windows Less Cranky!! Every $1.00 donation will receive a $.50 match. Example: your donation of $20 will earn $10 in matching funds.

Click here to donate:

http://www.power2give.org/MontgomeryCountyMD/Project/Detail?projectId=8878

Philadelphia PCC 2647 at the Baltimore Streetcar Museum may yield window crank parts.

Last I saw it, there was nothing left of 2647 above the frame. Try the Pennsylvania Trolley Museum ffor PCC winddow parts, we may have some available.

Thanks to our friends at PTM (scrapped PAT cars in the 1980s?) and elsewhere we have parts needed. Donations of funds via Power2Give will move this project along.

Wesley

Wes,

Keep us informed on how this fund raising goes... For our generally more technologically conservative (aka backward) organizations, this is new ground...

the previously posted efforts have been criticized... I believe correctly for badly using the technology/concept. Yours seems better presented.

Randy

At National Capital Trolley Museum (NCTM) we have been successfully using Power2Give for crowdfunding. In 2014 we raised $10,554 to support four projects. Of the $10,554, Museum members contributed $7,036 and the balance of $3,518 was contributed through matching funds provided by the County Government through the Arts and Humanities Council at a rate of 50 cents on the dollar.

The four projects ranged from $1,830 to the present campaign of $6,818. A majority of the contributed revenue came from Museum members. We have not had much success inspiring our visitors to donate. All donations must be made online using the Power2Give website.

In late 2010 the Arts & Science Council of Charlotte-Mecklenburg began development of power2give.org, a groundbreaking new website designed to address changing trends in philanthropic giving. ASC, located in Charlotte, North Carolina, is a non-profit whose mission is to build appreciation, participation and support for the arts, science, history and heritage in Charlotte-Mecklenburg. The Arts & Humanities Council of Montgomery County (AHCMC) purchased a regional license for power2give from ASC through a National Endowment for the Arts grant. This license makes power2give available for cultural non-profits in Montgomery County. The Montgomery County site is administered by AHCMC.

For most of the duration of the license, AHCMC has tried to offer matching funds. Initially there was a $1 for $1 match from community business. Recently the match has been 50 cents for every dollar donated.

As noted the program has been successful for us. We have kept projects "affordable" in order to maintain momentum and maximize the match. Based on the results, the P2G program has motivated our members to financially support the Museum on a regular basis.

Please feel free to reply with comments and questions.

Wesley

While not what they were in 1990, the arts are generally doing well in Charlotte, although ASC is both a great benefactor and something of a culture baron and disruptive force as well. It is probably as good a situation as could happen given the climate, both politically and economically.....and socially, far more like big business or pro sports than I'd like. We're a republican city of bankers with a democratic body politic with a heritage of paternalism and evangelism.........

I'm very pleased to see our system is working well in DC.

dave