Editing Smithsonian Institution (section)

===Capital campaigns===
In 2011, the Smithsonian undertook its first-ever capital fundraising campaign.<ref>{{Cite book|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-135-69399-2|last=Kelly|first=Kathleen S.|title=Effective Fund-Raising Management| date= December 6, 2012}}{{rp|79}}</ref> The $1.5&nbsp;billion effort raised $1&nbsp;billion at the three-year mark. Smithsonian officials made the campaign public in October 2014 in an effort to raise the remaining $500&nbsp;million. More than 60,000 individuals and organizations donated money to the campaign by the time it went public.<ref name="McGlone">{{cite news| url= https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/museums/smithsonian-announces-15-billion-fundraising-effort/2014/10/20/b853634e-586d-11e4-8264-deed989ae9a2_story.html|last=McGlone|first=Peggy|title=Smithsonian Announces $1.5 Billion Fundraising Effort|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=October 20, 2014|access-date=October 21, 2014|url-status=live |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20141021101512/http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/museums/smithsonian-announces-15-billion-fundraising-effort/2014/10/20/b853634e-586d-11e4-8264-deed989ae9a2_story.html|archive-date=October 21, 2014}}</ref> This included 192 gifts of at least $1&nbsp;million.<ref name="McGlone"/> Members of the boards of directors of various Smithsonian museums donated $372&nbsp;million.<ref name="McGlone"/> The Smithsonian said that funds raised would go toward completion of the [[National Museum of African American History and Culture]] building, and renovations of the [[National Air and Space Museum]], [[National Museum of American History]], and the [[Renwick Gallery]].<ref name="McGlone"/> A smaller amount of funds would go to educational initiatives and digitization of collections.<ref name="McGlone"/> As of September 2017, the Smithsonian claimed to have raised $1.79&nbsp;billion, with three months left in the formal campaign calendar.<ref>{{cite web|title=Progress |url=https://smithsoniancampaign.org/progress|website=smithsoniancampaign.org|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180210064239/https://smithsoniancampaign.org/progress|archive-date= February 10, 2018}}</ref>

Separately from the major capital campaign, the Smithsonian has begun fundraising through [[Kickstarter]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/lifestyle/smithsonian-kickstarter |title=Saving America's treasures: The Smithsonian used Kickstarter to raise money for Neil Armstrong's spacesuit and Dorothy's ruby slippers. Was it worth it? |first=Peggy |last=McGlone |date=July 6, 2017 |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=January 20, 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171107234036/https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/lifestyle/smithsonian-kickstarter/ |archive-date=November 7, 2017}}</ref> An example is a campaign to fund the preservation and maintenance of the [[ruby slippers]] worn by [[Judy Garland]] for her role as [[Dorothy Gale]] in the 1939 film ''[[The Wizard of Oz (1939 film)|The Wizard of Oz]]''.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Bowley|first1=Graham|title=Smithsonian Seeks $300,000 to Save Dorothy's Ruby Slippers |url= https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/20/arts/design/smithsonian-seeks-300000-to-save-dorothys-ruby-slippers.html|access-date=October 14, 2017|work=The New York Times|date=October 19, 2016|url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161226170219/http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/20/arts/design/smithsonian-seeks-300000-to-save-dorothys-ruby-slippers.html|archive-date=December 26, 2016}}</ref>