CAMP has been fortunate in our ability to grow and accomplish our goals in no small part due to the generous donations from individuals and the support of Legacy Amendment grants through the Minnesota Historical Society (MNHS). In 2025 we will continue to pursue grant funding for projects from MNHS and operational support through building relationships within the extended Pagan community and charitable foundations. This will enable CAMP to build the infrastructure needed to preserve the history of our community. Our top fundraising priorities are to acquire digital storage media and build a portable digitization lab. Combined with our basic operating expenses our fundraising goal for 2025 has been set at $10,000.
Digital Storage
A primary responsibility of CAMP is to provide a trusted digital repository for the materials given into our care. To do this our holdings will be maintained on three different mediums; dark archive cloud storage, a NAS RAID array, and Blu Ray discs or microfiche stored at a separate physical location in a different climate disaster zone. We have begun incrementally developing our storage; however, it is likely that we will have reached capacity early in 2025. The estimated cost of this project is $2000.
Portable Digitization Lab
The benefit of a portable digitization lab is its flexibility allowing us to serve communities of a larger geographic area. With the right equipment we will be in the position to work with people and communities who cannot afford their
own set up, as well as conduct preliminary work for large projects with long delays between planning, applying, and grant approval. The additional benefit is that we will begin host community digitization events to actively engage with the
community by giving individuals an opportunity to participate in the historic preservation process. In this way we will gain access to material and donors in a social context, expanding our knowledge of possible future acquisitions
and growing community relationships. Our plans are based on a community centered approach to collections development which is relatively new to the history world. This makes our lab nearly impossible to fund through grant projects, however we feel that it is the best way to benefit the Pagan community and fulfill our mission statement. Our equipment needs include overhead document scanners, laptop computers, external hard drives, and suitable storage bags for transport. We estimate that this project will cost $5000.