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40+ Unforgettable Live Auction Items that Sell Well

Bloomerang

This guide is a great place to start to generate ideas for items and packages that will captivate your audience at your next auction event. Recently, modernist and impressionist paintings have been selling particularly well in the art world. Art that has personal meaning for your community is also a safe bet.

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How Museum Hack Transforms Museum Tours: Interview with Dustin Growick

Museum 2.0

A new company in New York, Museum Hack , is reinventing the museum tour from the outside in. Dustin is a science instructor at the New York Hall of Science (NYSCI) by day, Museum Hack tour developer/leader at AMNH by night. So I went on a tour…and experienced the museum in an entirely new way.

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What are the nonprofit management implications of Pay for Success programs?

ASU Lodestar Center

Despite this small sample size and lack of evidence for success, the concept has captivated politicians and Wall Street alike. Entering into a rigorous, time-intensive pay for success contract is likely a better plan if a program is not brand new. In reality, they may be a new brand for existing funding. and Phoenix, Arizona.

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How Save the Children Is Using An Edgy Infographic As Part of A Multi-Channel Campaign for Children in Syria

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Seth Godin poses the figurative question “are you willing to get arrested for your art?”)Though One key challenge with text-to-donate is that it is event-driven and needs a captive and attentive audience to move the needle on donations. Though the tools may have changed, the basic human rights and need of children have not.

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The Eye of the Beholder

Museum 2.0

Marian Goodman Gallery, New York Usually this blog is more about analysis than links. But this week, two articles about art, in the NYT and the Washington Post Magazine respectively, called out to be combined into a post about the role of visitors in art interpretation. What do we look for in art museums?

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The 2016 - 2017 Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar

Everyaction

Fast Company / New York, NY / $1,999. National Arts Marketing Project Conference. National Arts Marketing Project Conference. National Arts Marketing Project / Austin, TX / $575. NYSSCPA / New York, NY / $510. Council for Advancement & Support of Education (CASE) / New York, NY / $1,360.

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New Models for Community Partnerships: Museums Hosting Meetups

Museum 2.0

On 8.16.08, the Museum of Art and History (Santa Cruz, CA) hosted FreelanceCamp, a free unconference that brought 150 designers and techies from the south bay area together to talk shop. When you have your captive audience, customize your offerings so they can easily make the connection to why they might want to visit again.

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