Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Last week Ginny Fitzgerald, the Director of Visitor Services and Membership at Chicago History Museum, joined us to host a webinar about how she prepares her team for peak attendance times. Chicago History Museum defines their summer season as June 1 through August 31. Membership Arts & Cultural fundraising ideas'

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

Maybe you've been feeling this way about coming to an event related to The Art of Relevance. Paul, MN at the Minnesota History Center, 8-10am - Free! Register Now October 18, 2016: Chicago, IL at Navy Pier, 3:30-5:30pm - Free! When your favorite band comes to town, you'll buy a ticket and go to the show.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 8, 2010

Last month, I got a chance to talk with Nell Taylor, founder of the Chicago Underground Library. We have neighborhood newspapers, internationally-renowned magazines of political commentary, and three View-Master reels of Chicago hot dog stands, neon signs, and motor inns, respectively.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 26, 2010

Art spaces masquerading as laundromats and letterpresses. Machine Project is a non-profit storefront arts venue that hosts a dizzying array of eclectic classes, workshops, events, and occasional exhibits. Want some waffles with your art? Chicago Underground Library (Chicago, IL). Skill-sharing free schools.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 8, 2014

While many of their examples came from history and natural science, one of my favorite examples is from art. Cognitive scientists at Yale and University of Chicago researched how people perceive "identity continuity" of an artwork when reproduced. Whose soul is stamped on a work of art? If done by the same hand?

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 3, 2019

I love alternative history novels. I was thinking I’d do a few alternative histories of museums for the first post of the last month of the decade. About a decade ago, I remember reading "Nuns sat here" at the Detroit Institute of Art as the title of a label for a piece of wooden convent furniture. But I couldn’t get there.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 13, 2010

On October 20, a young woman named Kate will move into Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry and live there for a month. Nothing warms my heart like seeing outtakes of a guy trying to scale the walls of MSI, or a man spinning a yarn about his family's long history sleeping in museums. That will come later. Museum staffers.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 31, 2009

The Smithsonian and a small history museum have very different communities and thus should have very different expectations of what makes them unique. Guzman said, “we can talk about the appreciation of art and the aesthetic experience, but we don’t talk about every art form that we could fit in here.

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EveryAction

MARCH 16, 2017

Whether quietly spearheading some of the world's most groundbreaking scientific and medical research or not-so-quietly leading revolutions on the battlefield, our history is ripe with stories of ferocious, adventurous, enlightened, and persistent women. Sheroes in the Arts. Thought Leaders. Revolutionaries. Game-Changers.

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Association of Advancement Services Professionals (AASP) / Chicago, IL / $400. It is our turn to make history. Nonprofit Best Practices / Chicago, IL / Less than $700. National Arts Marketing Project Conference. National Arts Marketing Project Conference. National Arts Marketing Project / Austin, TX / $575.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 7, 2022

As we celebrate Women’s History Month, honoring the countless contributions women have made and continue to make in our country and around the world, it’s important to recognize the many organizations whose focus and missions revolve around helping women. Chicago Foundation for Women. Areas served: Baltimore, Chicago, Hawai?i,

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Kindful

MARCH 5, 2021

As we celebrate Women’s History Month, honoring the countless contributions women have made and continue to make in our country and around the world, it’s important to recognize the many organizations whose focus and missions revolve around helping women. Chicago Foundation for Women. Areas served: Baltimore, Chicago, Hawai?i,

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Museum 2.0

MAY 5, 2009

This was particularly directed at MN150, which featured visitor-nominated milestones of Minnesota history, and Children of the Lodz Ghetto, which invites users to conduct original research on the path taken by thousands of children during the Holocaust. I bought her book, Evocative Objects, and we're likely to have a Museum 2.0

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Neon CRM

MAY 18, 2023

The more data points you have on your donors—from email and street addresses to job titles and company names, giving capacity, philanthropic history, contact preferences, and general interest—the more you will be able to target your asks and create fundraising campaigns that speak directly to them. Set S.M.A.R.T. Goals S.M.A.R.T.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 6, 2021

But if once ever, in the history of you raising children you have to manipulate them once to do the things you want them to do because it’s good for you, then you should be less harsh on yourself to do the right thing for your donors, which is to speak the language. That is true art and science of fundraising.

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