{"id":1868,"date":"2017-08-02T21:06:33","date_gmt":"2017-08-02T21:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/notesnletters.com\/?p=1868"},"modified":"2017-08-02T21:06:33","modified_gmt":"2017-08-02T21:06:33","slug":"loudoun-museum-is-straightening-out-finances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/notesnletters.com\/?p=1868","title":{"rendered":"Loudoun Museum is straightening out finances"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One year after the Loudoun Museum faced the possibility of having to close because of the potential loss of county funding, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/loudoun-museum-is-taking-steps-to-get-its-finances-in-order\/2017\/07\/28\/67680ac6-7150-11e7-8f39-eeb7d3a2d304_story.html?utm_term=.dd051a1d35d9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">museum officials say they have taken the necessary first steps<\/a> to straighten out the organization\u2019s finances.<\/p>\n<p>The Loudoun County Board of Supervisors directed the museum\u2019s trustees to make fundraising a top priority, officials said. So in May, the trustees hired Leslie Mazeska, who has a professional background in fundraising and grant-writing for nonprofit organizations, as the museum\u2019s executive director.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/loudoun-museum-is-taking-steps-to-get-its-finances-in-order\/2017\/07\/28\/67680ac6-7150-11e7-8f39-eeb7d3a2d304_story.html?utm_term=.dd051a1d35d9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The Washington Post<\/em>, July 30, 2017<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One year after the Loudoun Museum faced the possibility of having to close because of the potential loss of county funding, museum officials say they have taken the necessary first steps to straighten out the organization\u2019s finances. The Loudoun County Board of Supervisors directed the museum\u2019s trustees to make fundraising a top priority, officials said. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/notesnletters.com\/?p=1868\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Loudoun Museum is straightening out finances&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[23,37,22,10,3,84,68],"class_list":["post-1868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-post","tag-board-of-supervisors","tag-budget","tag-downtown","tag-history","tag-loudoun-county","tag-museum","tag-nonprofit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1868"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1869,"href":"http:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1868\/revisions\/1869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}