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Museum Photo Policies Should Be as Open as Possible

Museum 2.0

If people can take their own photos, they won't buy them in the gift shop. In 2008, a team led by MIT media researcher Henry Jenkins published a white paper entitled, "If it Doesn't Spread, It's Dead," which argues that media artifacts have greatest impact when consumers are able to pass on, reuse, adapt, and remix them.

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Are Social Enterprises Viable Models for Funding Nonprofits?

ASU Lodestar Center

In 2008, Vermont became the first state to permit the creation of the L3C (Powell, Jackson-Zapata, & Kammerling, 2014), an entity that allows companies to achieve modest profits while operating under a business model that emphasizes impact over profits. In 2014, Goodwill received $3.94

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Fundraising Facts

Tech Soup

Mark at Queer Ideas reports on a finding that I think is especially salient: although online giving increased 43% between 2007 and 2008, the average gift dropped from $86 to $71. Photo: Ann Althouse , CC license. Related: NOZA's Craig Harris on Relationships with Donors.