Support for the Museum

Our many volunteers provide the knowledge and manpower for all of our programs and assist with keeping the Museum open. These are the people who also restore and maintain our equipment and provide help to build new exhibits. We are excited to be a family venue that is open to children of all ages. We have invited local schools to come with their classes and participate in a learning experience at no charge. Your donations and support will help us to meet the day to day costs of operating our machine shop, print shop as well as daily electricity, heat, repairs and other expenses. Donations help us to continue to provide affordable educational opportunities for our visitors.

Your donations are greatly appreciated by those of us directly involved in the MHM. If you wish to donate, please call 231-722-1363 or mail a check to: MHMuseum, 561 West Western Ave, Muskegon, MI, 49440. The Muskegon Heritage Association Museum is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization.
There are other easy ways you can support the museum as well.

The MHMusuem is contacting companies that desire to make a difference in giving back to our community. These companies typically define their commitment in terms of corporate responsibility or community involvement. We will be asking them to consider the museum when they are providing community organizations with donations, sponsorships, matching funds, or grants. If you are a part of a company or organization that provides community organizations with donations, matching funds or grants, please tell us about your company or organization by contacting Allan Dake, Director MHMuseum.


Many companies also reward their employees for donating in the community by matching their employees' donations to community organizations. If your company has a matching donation program, please participate in it and ask for your donations to the Muskegon Heritage Association Museum to be matched. If MHM is not on your company's approved list of community organizations, ask them if we can be added. Once the museum is approved, each time you donate money to the museum, your company will donate a matching amount. This is an easy way to benefit our museum by making your donations count that much more.

Thank you and we hope to hear from you soon.

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DONATIONS:

A non-profit museum can not exist without help from others, whether it be donations of materials, money or time spent at the museum. We appreciate these peoples willingness to support the museum. When you see them, mention you saw their name or business on our web site and thank them for their support.

2011

Business / Industry donors

Provided funds to purchase a 1910 Boynton & Plummer Shaper for the Heritage Machine Works.

D. Baker & Son Lumber Co. - Donated hardwood flooring for three rooms on the 2nd floor - Scott Salamasick

Carmichael Heating - Donated time and materials to reinstalled our hot air furnace in the machinery building - Tom Smrcina

Century Foundry, Inc - Donated time and materials to help us explain the foundry process with cope and drag samples and final products in aluminum. - Scott LeRoux

DeRose Builders- Donated their labor to design and install new stairway to the third floor replacing our old narrow stairs - Dave & Matt DeRose

Jerry's Fabrication Inc.- Donated time and materials to build an engine stand for display of our Continental Aircraft Engine. - Jerry Bean

Keene Lumber - Donated hardwood flooring for one room on the 2nd floor. - Kevin Kooi

Newkirk Electric - Donation of the electrical materials for the 2nd floor rewiring.

Rycenga Building Center - Donated hardwood flooring for one room on the second floor. - John Rycenga

Torresen Marine inc. - Donated a working Gray Marine (Continental) engine for exhibit in the museum - Brian and Gordon Torresen

Individual donors / volunteers

Jack Brewer - Donated a working Continental Aircarft Engine to the Musuem for exhibit.

Anne & Allan Dake - Supporting the museum with financial contributions and many many hours of volunteer time.

Jim Funnel - Construction work at the museum on a regular basis.

Jack Grenell - Rewiring the 2nd Floor of the museum so we can open it for exhibit space in the future.

Bob Harvey - Construction and general help on many projects at the museum on a regular basis.

Erik Sawyer - Construction help at the museum on our second floor remodeling.

Greg Rogers - Construction and general help on our second floor remodeling.

Fred Wilder - Significant donation so the original cornerstone from Shaw Box could be cut to a managable thickness.

Adam Winters - Spends many hours improving the machinery area of the museum.

2010

C. W. Marsh - Line shaft donated from their operating equipment - Dave Utzinger and Dave Pruitt

Hilt Foundation - New complete heating system for the museum - John & Linda Hilt

Pulver Contracting - OSB board for the sub floors for two newly renovated rooms - Murray Pulver

Norm and Maureen Campbell - Donation toward all the belts and extra material for the line shaft.

Bob Harvey - Many hours donated removing the line shaft and assisting in remodeling the inside of the Museum.

Anne & Allan Dake - Many hours revitalizing the museum and its exhibts.

Adam Winters - Arranging for the new blower and other equipment for the Steam Engine and Machine Shop

Jim Funnel - Construction work in the museum.

Klinefleter's Gallery - Photo retouching and framing for many of our exhibits, - Paul Klinefelter

Ray and Jackie Hilt - Items on loan for the Victorian Parlor, Occidental Hotel and the Brewery exhibit.

Dick Edstrom - Many hours rebuilding our Band Saw for the Machine Shop

Dave Dawes - Revitalizing the lumbering exhibit.

Buckley Steam Group - helping with the line shaft set up and donating a Die Filer machine.

Fred Wilder - Purchase of the new Regenerative Blower to run the Steam Engine.

We thank them for their support of the MHA!