ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Nonprofits then misreport their finances on documents such as the IRS Form 990. The following recommendations have been identified to help nonprofit leaders create a plan to convince their funders to make investments in capacity building infrastructure projects. Calculate true costs. Change the language.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

This August/September, I am "rerunning" popular Museum 2.0 Originally posted in April of 2011, just before I hung up my consulting hat for my current job at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. I''ve spent much of the past three years on the road giving workshops and talks about audience participation in museums.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

One of our big projects for the year will, we hope, create a space for 19 thought leaders to do just that. Participants are encouraged to use their own organizations as testing grounds, engaging colleagues in the conversations and work related to CoI projects throughout the year.

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Qgiv

MARCH 30, 2022

It was then that I began working at a local art museum as a volunteer. CA: One of the best things that happened to me while volunteering for the local art museum is they funded my travel to Los Angeles and my tuition to take the week-long grant writing training bootcamp hosted by The Grantsmanship Center. My mind was a sponge.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Recently, I was giving a presentation about participatory techniques at an art museum, when a staff member raised her hand and asked, "Did you have to look really hard to find examples from art museums? Aren't art museums less open to participation than other kinds of museums?" I was surprised by her question.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2006

The Art Museum Social Tagging Project is a group of art museums is looking at integrating folksonomies into the museum Web by developing a working prototype for tagging and term collection, and outlining directions for future development and research that could benefit the entire museum community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2010

Nina has written a fantastic book engagement called The Participatory Museum. Imagine sitting around a conference table planning an upcoming project that involves user-generated content. A third argues that the project won’t be truly participatory unless users get to define what content is sought in the first place.

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Qgiv

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Endowments can be used by any size of nonprofit, but they’re most commonly used by larger nonprofits, such as museums, universities, and hospitals, for ongoing operations, scholarships, and other long-term projects. Is there a specific project you want to fund? Is there a scholarship you want to start?

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 28, 2010

Every once in a while I come across a project I wish I could have included in The Participatory Museum. For one year, a group of twelve schoolchildren age 9-11 were invited to work with staff at the Wallace Collection to develop a family-focused exhibition using the museum's artifacts. it's a Secret! , What made Shh.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 26, 2009

This guest post was written by Ruben Huele and describes the scenario-based strategic process used at the Dutch Natural History Museum, Naturalis , to innovate the redevelopment of their permanent collection. The new building of Naturalis, the Dutch National Natural History Museum, opened in 1998. It should not surprise the Museum 2.0

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

This Black History Month, we reflect on the strategy work that our team does through our partnership with the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture —much of which centers around expanding access. And for those who have, they quickly understand that the Museum has much more to offer than can be absorbed in a day.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

I've spent much of the past three years on the road giving workshops and talks about audience participation in museums. The Museum 2.0 In 2008 and 2009, there were many conference sessions and and documents presenting participatory case studies, most notably Wendy Pollock and Kathy McLean's book Visitor Voices in Museum Exhibitions.

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Question Participatory Museum Evaluation 49

Museum 2.0

JUNE 22, 2009

I'm working on a personal project (slowly) to open a cafe/bar venue that is also a design incubator for participatory exhibits. My goals are two-fold: to develop a dynamic, creative, social platform for my community and to distribute its successful elements to other civic learning institutions (museums, libraries, community centers).

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Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2014

” The Google.org sponsored project invited Bay Area nonprofits to share information about their great work to make a better world. GLIDE is a faith-based homeless services program in San Francisco that supplies hot meals, violence prevention, and education services in one of worst neighborhoods.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2012

This post is the third and final in a series of reactions to Blueprint , a book chronicling the rise and fall of the Dutch Museum of National History (INNL) in 2008-2011. The Vending Machine project was one of my favorites; you can learn more about it here. But the National Vending Machine, as most of INNL’s projects, is a prototype.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2006

TechSoup's Virtual Office space was pretty busy last night, hosting an earlier mixed reality event in Cambridge and SL , featuring Pathfinder Linden , head of educational activities for SL. A Museum group is also forming to discuss and explore what museum's can do in SL. Based on the TechSoup Second Life Group stats).

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Forum One

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Forum One partnered with the Museum to launch their new brand to the world. Forum One partnered with the Museum to launch their new brand to the world. This work not only included launching a new website but also revitalizing the American Jazz Museum brand as a whole. This work won a silver Davey Award for Education!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

For example, if you join a modern art museum, there is a good chance you won’t have to pay admission to other modern art museums. You can create small posters for sponsor businesses to show off that they are giving back and sponsoring your org, team, project, or campaign. You just need to show proof of membership. Photo and Bio.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 18, 2015

The first one was started in 1991 by a San Francisco educator, Dan Sudran, in his garage. There are lots of great science museum resources, but not where these kids can walk after school. Given a wide variety of stuff, they will find something that they are excited about and will take on projects. The interest is there.

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Forum One

MAY 17, 2023

Check out the rest of this post to learn more about each of our Vega Award-winning projects. We partnered with the Museum to launch their new brand to the world. This work not only included launching a new website, but also revitalizing the entire American Jazz Museum brand as a whole.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 13, 2023

We partnered with the Museum to launch their new brand to the world. We partnered with the Museum to launch their new brand to the world. This work not only included launching a new website but also revitalizing the American Jazz Museum brand as a whole. This work won a silver Davey Award for Education!

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Forum One

MAY 3, 2023

Forum One received 11 awards in seven categories in this year’s awards for excellence and distinction in website and app design, development, and digital strategy across the categories of non-profits, cultural institutions, science, health and wellness, and education. We partnered with the Museum to launch their new brand to the world.

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Award Communication Colorado Museum 79

Museum 2.0

APRIL 17, 2007

to educators permanently. there may be some great opportunities for collaboration for museums, too. to educators permanently. there may be some great opportunities for collaboration for museums, too. Unusual Projects and Influences. They are committed to making this technology accessible (and free!)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 8, 2009

Are the right people being educated and given the proper tools? The film crew induced lemmings into jumping off a cliff and into the sea in order to document their supposedly suicidal behavior. Oh, yeah, there's also the secret sauce: Listening before, during, and after a project. Is there a plan with a specific objective ?

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

They were there for project brainstorming. Temple Contemporary makes strange objects and gorgeous documentation. It encourages process-driven performances and art projects. It encourages process-driven performances and art projects. One of TUPAC's current questions is about the state of art education.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

What happens when a formal art museum invites a group of collaborative, participatory artists to be in residence for a year? Will the artists ruin the museum with their plant vacations and coatroom concerts? But for museum and art wonks, it could be. And the projects themselves are brilliant.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

As the museum's website puts it, "this exhibition examines how artists have engaged members of the public as essential collaborators in the art-making process." Staff play a major role in setting expectations about what visitors can and can not do-especially in art museums. DO message clearly. DO train your floor staff.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 7, 2007

If we were scientists, we'd have documentation of each experiment, each publishable result, each improved-upon discovery. But exhibit design is transient and its documentation spotty. What was the basis for this project? The whole process of developing an exhibition tends to get stuck behind a museum's doors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2006

This morning I attended the MacArthur Foundation Digital Learning briefing that was taking place at the Natural History Museum in NYC. Educators need to intervene and make creative alliances. " -rethink who are educators - who do kids learn from - not just adults "Kids are learning from each other." local time).

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 31, 2011

want to move to Santa Cruz and work at my museum? We are looking for an obsessively detail-oriented, highly resourceful, financially savvy, culture-loving individual to be the Administrative Manager of The Museum of Art & History. Or do you know someone who might be perfect for this job?

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 14, 2011

In 1990, educator and cultural critic Neil Postman described a museum as "an answer to a fundamental question: what does it mean to be a human being?" Without an explicit "I" voice, the museum's perspective on humanity is oblique to say the least. Welcome to Pine Point is not a museum project.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 10, 2010

I spent last week working with staff at the Minneapolis Institute of Art (MIA) on ways to make this encyclopedic art museum more open to visitor participation across programs, exhibitions, and events. Foot in the Door is a straightforward contributory project. The staff did a wonderful job documenting the project.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

s Hawaiian son as applied to museums. While there are some criticisms of its consensus-based model for information-vetting, there's no doubt of its success as a collaborative knowledge-creation project. Consider these two stories of museum-related wikis that struggled. What's a wiki? What makes them succeed? Great idea, right?

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 22, 2008

There are lots of things visitors can’t do in museums. But what about the things that museum professionals can’t (or feel they can’t) do? This week at the ASTC conference, Kathy McLean, Tom Rockwell, Eric Siegel and I presented a session called “You Can’t Do That in Museums!” And so my question is, why are we keeping them away?

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Qgiv

JUNE 9, 2021

You can procure items that encourage residents to explore the city in a fun way, such as local restaurant gift certificates or tickets to museums or sports games. Alumni mixers – If your organization is education-based, a huge chunk of your donations probably come from alumni! Travel auction – Who doesn’t love to travel?

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Ideas Fundraising Virtual Fun 59

Twenty Hats

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Has your museum debated the merits of paid staff over volunteers? Even though a great many museums evolve from volunteer-led organizations to employee-driven ones, the two roles are not interchangeable – we’ll discuss the distinctions in a moment. Volunteering is a powerful point of entry for an individual into a museum.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 6, 2014

Interactive, web-based ebooks are coming and will transform education and publishing in the near future, but until the technology arrives, you can copy and paste the text below in Word document. Write your project summary and set up your crowdfunding campaign(s). ? Send follow-up campaign update emails. Crowdfunding. ?

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