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Creating Buy-In for a Data Culture at Your Nonprofit

Tech Soup

Integrating data and analytics into your organizational culture can be a huge hurdle to overcome. Participation: Change in organizational culture stems from successful participation at every staff level. All these methods can create a fun atmosphere around your new data culture. Pretty soon, you stop caring also. Sound familiar?

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Six Alternative (U.S.) Cultural Venues to Keep an Eye On

Museum 2.0

I've been spending time recently interviewing people who run unusual cultural and learning venues. From a museum perspective, I think there's a lot to learn from these venues' business models, approach to collecting and exhibiting work, and connection with their audiences. Skill-sharing free schools. Community science workshops.

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4 bbcon Takeaways for Philanthropic Organizations to Power 2019 Planning

Connection Cafe

Foster a data culture, and a testing culture . If you’re just starting this process, consider the creation of a logic model. Once set, all future actions can be compared back to the model. Know your audience . Align with the goals of the organization and people you serve .

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Meditations on Relevance, Part 3: Who Decides What's Relevant?

Museum 2.0

Community First Program Design At the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History , we've gravitated towards a "community first" program planning model. Often, organizations adopt a service model that is strictly needs-based. While needs are important, this service model can be demeaning and disempowering. It's pretty simple.

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Sustaining Innovation Part 3: Interview With Sarah Schultz of the Walker Art Center

Museum 2.0

In the 1990s, we decided we wanted to engage a teen audience. We created a teen arts council, invested in staff, and invested in programming. We discovered that teens felt uncomfortable in the galleries because they had to check their backpacks and they felt the guards were watching them.

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The Participatory Nonprofit?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Another point of intersection here for me is Henry Jenkins recently published 72-page white paper " Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century." Some argue that young people acquire these key skills by interacting with popular culture. Expressions (media creation, mashups, etc).

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Encouraging Philanthropy at a Young Age: Teaching Your Kids To Give To Causes

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

" Be A Role Model of Generosity. He notes, "So we model the values that we hope our children will emulate, and support charities that our kids can see connections to. Parents and relatives are the best role model for their kids in sharing generosity, that is,generosity is passed on from generation to generation."

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