Support Emergency Response for the Arts
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The Texas Collections Emergency Resource Alliance (TX-CERA), a 501(c)(3) non profit organization, is an affiliation of institutions and professionals that support and advocate for the preservation of Texas Cultural Heritage. TX-CERA promotes emergency planning followed by training in response and recovery efforts and techniques. TX-CERA helps to mitigate the loss of collections due to disaster by offering professional development workshops, consultations, and institutional networking statewide.
Your donation will be used to purchase personal protective equipment and materials for emergency response and for first response kits to be distributed to local volunteers during training workshops in emergency planning, preparation, and response.
These are examples of the aid we offered in response to damage caused by winter storm Uri in February 2021:
Hall of State in Dallas
San Jacinto Museum of History in La Porte
Any amount will help to equip TX-CERA to plan for and respond to emergencies in our cultural institutions in order to preserve our Texas Heritage. Thank you for your generosity!
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Texas Collections Emergency Resource Alliance
Who we are:
Art conservators, archivists, librarians, curators, collection managers, preservation specialists, safety and security staff, first responders/emergency management personnel
Our tasks:
To train a team of first responders knowledgeable about the needs of special collections. Team members will be volunteers capable of working within an Incident Command System structure and local OEM’s in order to reduce loss of cultural material threatened by disaster.
To develop a Roster of TX-CERA members that includes administrators and curators in cultural institutions and conservation specialists. A Directory of Conservators and Specialists who are available to help public institutions with Emergency Planning and Response, which is currently hosted by the Ransom Center at http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/conservation/resources/emergency/ will be updated and expanded.
To represent the interests of the cultural community in state and local Emergency Management planning, resource allocation and response.
To increase awareness of the need for disaster planning and support for public collections compliant with NFPA 909: Code for the Protection of Cultural Resource Properties – Museum, Libraries and Places of Worship.
Your donation will be used to purchase personal protective equipment and materials for emergency response and for first response kits to be distributed to local volunteers during training workshops in emergency planning, preparation, and response.
These are examples of the aid we offered in response to damage caused by winter storm Uri in February 2021:
Hall of State in Dallas
San Jacinto Museum of History in La Porte
Any amount will help to equip TX-CERA to plan for and respond to emergencies in our cultural institutions in order to preserve our Texas Heritage. Thank you for your generosity!
Our facebook group
Our website
Texas Collections Emergency Resource Alliance
Who we are:
Art conservators, archivists, librarians, curators, collection managers, preservation specialists, safety and security staff, first responders/emergency management personnel
Our tasks:
To train a team of first responders knowledgeable about the needs of special collections. Team members will be volunteers capable of working within an Incident Command System structure and local OEM’s in order to reduce loss of cultural material threatened by disaster.
To develop a Roster of TX-CERA members that includes administrators and curators in cultural institutions and conservation specialists. A Directory of Conservators and Specialists who are available to help public institutions with Emergency Planning and Response, which is currently hosted by the Ransom Center at http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/conservation/resources/emergency/ will be updated and expanded.
To represent the interests of the cultural community in state and local Emergency Management planning, resource allocation and response.
To increase awareness of the need for disaster planning and support for public collections compliant with NFPA 909: Code for the Protection of Cultural Resource Properties – Museum, Libraries and Places of Worship.
Organizer
Cristiana Ginatta
Organizer
Dallas, TX
TX-Cera
Registered nonprofit
Donations are typically 100% tax deductible in the US.