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Guest Post by Seema Rao: How Museums Can Resist Racism and Oppression

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Like Seema, I've been looking for ways to increase active resistance of racism, hate, and bigotry--both as an individual and as the leader of a museum. Seema and I have started an open google doc to assemble ideas for specific things museums and museum professionals can do to resist oppression. Museums are ideas.

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Nonprofit Engagement: Why Website Logins Matter

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Think about the websites you most visit: Facebook , Google’s Gmail , Calendars and Docs , Yahoo , Netflix , NYTimes , Friendster –what, you don’t use Friendster anymore? Well, my point is that all of these sites have user logins. These could be included online or in email newsletters.

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33 Fun, Useful, and Totally Random Resources for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Additionally, the app serves as hub to all other Google Apps, such as Gmail, Calendar, Docs, Reader, Voice, Maps, etc. Museum of Me :: intel.com/museumofme. A Facebook app that creatively displays you and your Facebook friends in a virtual museum. It is a must download! GreatNonprofits :: greatnonprofits.org.

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We've Gotten This Far

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This month, I’d planned to have a celebration of the fellow people in museums, including your coworkers and colleagues you’ve never worked with. As perhaps everyone knows, there is a virus actively propagating in every community in the country. Closing museums could have real impact on visitors but also strongly impacts on the economy.

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Advocacy Policy, Part Two - And Why Now is an Especially Good Time to Create One

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A few months ago, the MAH board and staff started discussing whether and how to create a formal policy for advocacy activities. Our museum has already had several requests to lend our support to bond measures that will be on the ballot in 2016. If you've been considering this for awhile, now is the time to act.

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1stfans: An Audience-Specific Membership Program at the Brooklyn Museum

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The conventional wisdom on museum memberships is that they are "one size fits many" programs whose primary benefits are free entrance to the museum and insider access to exhibition openings. But what about all the other people who love your museum? Want to know how the Brooklyn Museum is answering this question?

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50 Fun, Useful, and Totally Random Resources for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Additionally, the app serves as hub to all other Google Apps, such as Gmail, Calendar, Docs, Reader, Voice, Maps, etc. Museum of Me :: intel.com/museumofme. A Facebook app that creatively displays you and your Facebook friends in a virtual museum. It is a must download! GreatNonprofits :: greatnonprofits.org. nonprofitorgs.

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