Kagin
For ANA President

Education

• Provide interactive eLearning courses offered online on any electronic device 24/7.
• Recreate and develop a volunteer mentor program.
• Expand offering introductory packages of books/supplies for grade school teacher.
• Provide virtual regional club mini –educational seminars. Clubs could be provided a lesson plan and make use of digital images from ANA.
• Provide volunteer school lecturers (perhaps derived from a local Coin Club) to school districts.
• Rethink / modernize Diploma and other programs with links to virtual “workbook material” for both print and on-line lesson plans.
• Work with more local dealers to sponsor traveling ANA grading seminars.
• Create a YouTube “How to give a school presentation ‘directed to people who are interested in giving presentations at schools.
• Provide YouTube segments including interviews with prominent numismatists to be disseminated to other hobbyists, academic venues, etc.

FISCAL STABILITY AND CLARITY

• Revamp budget presentation to create/demonstrate a balanced budget for day-to-day expenditures including salaries and infrastructure, insurance, legal and accounting costs and then provide another budget for programs which require sponsorship opportunities or endowment funds to be properly maintained.

DEVELOPMENT

• Offer a list of sponsorship opportunity for upcoming initiatives and revamp naming rights and major awards.
• ANA awards– get “shout out” ads from advertisers, friends and family honoring awardees. Announce awards three issues before a convention/presentation which allows time for additional ads. Get list of potential congratulators from award recipient whom to contact for ads.
• Send Estate Planning booklets to families of recently deceased ANA members and to members over 70 years old.
• Appoint official ANA appraisers for donated material.
• Explore establishing a “Chair” – for “Curator” or “professor of numismatics” to be employed by the ANA.

MUSEUM

• Solicit specific items to the ANA Museum as part of a “build our museum” program.
• Sponsored concierge headquarters tours which would include special VIP presentations by staff/luminaries, providing restaurant class food, etc.
• Bring in dealer/expert volunteers in different numismatic series to recommend deaccessioning numismatic material not needed. Those items can be placed in an ANA sponsored auction at no cost to the museum (ANA receives a fee from the auction house’s buyer’s charge). Cheaper quantity items can be sold separately or given as prizes or giveaways to beginning numismatists.
• Proactively provide expertise to other coin museums to not only modernize exhibits, but to suggest above deaccession program
• Develop more virtual traveling exhibitions for shows and clubs with dealer sponsorship.

LIBRARY

• Digitize all important volumes, images, notebooks and catalogs.
• Lending of books should mostly be conducted virtually.
• Ask volunteer bibliophiles to recommend needed volumes and get those items donated/funded.
  

Clubs

• ANA can create a short video/primer on how to set up a Zoom/Go to Meeting invite. Clubs need to aggressively encourage all member to view. Reticent members can be loaned or given a laptop by other members. Share lessons on how to log onto meetings and encourage participation.
• ANA should facilitate Zoom/GoToMeeting invitations from clubs by sharing best practices/primer on ideas.
• Update how to download Zoom and power point presentations especially for club/school presentations. Perhaps provide UBS power thumb drives.
• Develop a more comprehensive data base/library of both dealer and collector You Tube virtual presentations that would be available to clubs. ANA can encourage local dealers not only to speak, but to sponsor such programs- a win-win-win opportunity.
• Dealers can develop loyalty by offering an “ask the dealer” session one night a quarter.
• Give new ANA members a free one-year membership in their local coin club.
• ANA can provide a newsletter template with current national news that can be used by clubs’ secretaries who can then just add local news to create a paper as well as virtual newsletter.
• New club members can receive a free virtual ANA membership funded by local dealers who would get star points.
• Expand and create a more robust internet forum for club officers to exchange ideas.
• Feature a “Club-of-the-Month” in The Numismatist
• ANA can encourage club members to go to their local scout meeting and give presentations.
• Work with clubs in a coordinated effort to reach out to their county school superintendents, informing them that numismatic programs that ANA currently offers that can complement current class programs rather than compete with them. Programs can also be virtual after which, questions can be submitted to the ANA staff by the students.
• Make available to clubs an easy-to-implement primer on how teachers can integrate numismatics in their local classroom. Different outlines/ideas can be developed for different grade levels or subjects. ANA can then provide the necessary supplies based on the responses.

SHOWS

• Expand electronic kiosks to include interactive educational mini programs.
• Provide venue/booth for beginners; not necessarily for YNs. Especially on Saturdays.
• Open the security room the night before set-up; perhaps charge a small fee.
• Let local dealers replace those that leave the shows early.
• Get ads from official convention hotels and restaurants within 3 blocks of convention in exchange for conventioneers’ discount coupons for their food purchases.
• Provide virtual registration and pre-registration.
• Life members get early show admission.
• Provide Docent Programs at shows including:

a. Guided tours by exhibitors every hour and then ask to join ANA.

b. Greeters at entrance to direct attendees to areas of interest or exhibits. Perhaps provided by club sponsors.

• Explore the possibility of extending coin shows through Sunday emphasizing educational programs for young people and inclusion of local dealers to fill bourse spaces vacated by national dealers (who may have been there for a week).
• Explore making Segway’s or carts available to appropriate members at shows.
• Possibly include Boy/Girl Scout merit badge programs at coin shows.

Shows (Continued)

• Mandate all board governors provide ANA applications at the ANA sponsored coin shows.
• Let members/clubs fill out all ANA forms such as booth and exhibit applications on-line.
• Pages at shows should request permission before leaving flyers at bourse booths.
• Explore reconstituting the spring National Money Show as a “virtual only” show

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• Use current NMS funds/staff to offer more “virtual shows” combined with a local club show sponsored bourse along with local exhibits and youth activities.

MEMBERSHIP

• Convert regular ANA membership to life membership and give credit of $10 /y for every year one has been a member.
• Life members get name entered into a lottery for an ANA seminars scholarship. Funding provided by sponsors.
• Offer 65 and 70-year membership medals.
• Encourage ANA Brochures / applications at dealer tables to “build relationships” and award star points.
• When a new member signs up, they can “adopt a coin”, for a fee and get additional benefits.
• Allow automatic membership renewals.

COMMITTEES

• Make Governors chairman and accountable for all committees who will provide goals with timelines, metrics and periodic updates to the president and board and ultimately the membership.
• Reach out to the entire membership to participate as committee volunteers and/or as speakers. Provide the goals of each committee along with what would be required of each volunteer. Ask members to list their top committees to serve and give a brief reason why. Then assign them committees and put them to work!

YNs

• Ask members to help create hand- held numismatic themed games apps. Offer (a sponsored) cash award challenge to develop smart phone apps with fun and competitive numismatic themes compelling to potential young numismatists. Players will receive prizes for winning games such as one for creating the best virtual Registry Set from a specific amount of virtual money.
• Explore how ANA can more efficiently get numismatic information to school districts.
• Provide penny/quarter boards for beginning YNs, sponsored by dealers
• Expand use of YN bucks.
• Explore the idea of assembling a YN Counsel which will telephonically meet quarterly to incubate ideas and perhaps elect an ambassador to periodically make presentations to the ANA board.

EXHIBITS

• Add a new competitive category of coin club exhibit. That would not only promote camaraderie and encourage new exhibitors, but also help newer exhibitors learn firsthand from more experienced exhibitors.

GOVERNANCE

• Bylaws should be modified to allow for four or five terms of three years each which will allow new governors to get acclimated to their duties and responsibilities and provide continuity to the board.
• Allow previously timed out Governors to run again with the new time limit above (12-15 years).
• If deemed advisable based on current board backgrounds, the president can appoint a special non-voting presidential advisory committee composed of individuals with special expertise in areas of management, accounting, marketing, etc. that can provide critical input to the board.
• Review strategic plan providing specific 1-2-3 to 5-year goals and how they might be achieved.