Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

4) Art Institute of Chicago Museum Shop :: shop.artic.edu. The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Shop sells unique and beautiful objects from around the world in support of the arts. 8) Field Museum Store :: store.fieldmuseum.org. 13) Helping Rhinos Shop :: helpingrhinos.org/shop. Perfect gifts for the nonprofit techie!

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NOVEMBER 26, 2019

This month, we're thinking about the way we do work in museums. As someone texted me recently, Art History grad school didn't teach us anything about working with others in museums. We all need help to do this better. Sharing articles that work is a great reason to stay on Museum Twitter by the way. . —

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JULY 10, 2019

Or maybe hello museum world! Previously, I had worked at the same museum for 17 years.) I went from lots of change in one place to help many places with their change. So, when you visit more than 300 museums, parks, and historic sites, what do you learn? This week, I wanted to start with us, museum and cultural workers.

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APRIL 6, 2021

Beecher Hicks III, President & CEO of the National Museum of African American Music (NMAAM) in Nashville, TN. NMAAM is the only museum dedicated to preserving and celebrating the many music genres created, influenced, and inspired by African Americans. Even though the museum is now open, the Museum Without Walls will continue.

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MARCH 5, 2024

This Women’s History Month, we celebrate the work that the Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum does each and every day to bring women’s stories alive and into focus. Forum One worked with the Museum to create the 10-minute digital experience, which will be available this Friday on the Museum’s website. January 30, 2024).

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MARCH 14, 2024

Launching a Giving Day can help build a strong, banner campaign, any time of year. Museums can have a hard time soliciting smaller dollar annual gifts tied to mission, rather than a new exhibit, and this is a great place to turn the focus to why donor support matters.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 20, 2019

4) Art Institute of Chicago Museum Shop :: shop.artic.edu. The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Shop sells unique and beautiful objects from around the world in support of the arts. 6) Field Museum Store :: store.fieldmuseum.org. 18) SFMOMA Museum Store :: museumstore.sfmoma.org. One-of-a-kind gifts designed to help St.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 17, 2019

These two adages were both in my mind last week when I asked people for the worst museum trends. In this decade museums worst trends were in labor and tech: 1. Susan Spero brought up the cost tuition rises had to the field: The rise in tuition which in turn has meant that museum studies programs have taken a huge hit.

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JANUARY 4, 2022

An emergency campaign can help you raise the money you need to effectively deal with the problems at hand. Platforms like Amazon Smile , iGive.com, and ShopRaise help your donors passively donate to your organization every time they shop online. Virtual tours for museums. Micro-donation programs. Online networking event.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 7, 2020

Monday, May 18th is International Museum Day , the mission of which is to raise awareness of the fact that, “museums are an important means of cultural exchange, enrichment of cultures and development of mutual understanding, cooperation and peace among peoples.”. 2019 saw more than 55,000 museums across 150 countries participate.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

While many American museums require 37.5 The whole issue of wages gets at the heart of the faulty systems of capitalism, the culture of women’s work, and museums as privilege-concentrating institutions. In the last twenty years, or so, professionalization has changed museum work. Not the work we do, but the ways we do that work.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 7, 2020

As a Historic Interpreter for Telfair Museums, I would lead visitors through the Owens-Thomas House and Slave Quarters on a 45 minute guided tour of antebellum Savannah history discussing politics and urban slavery. When the Museum closed I was expecting the next few weeks to be different. I set up digital lunches.

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Candid

MARCH 27, 2024

Looking at top queries month by month can help identify trends among and within certain types of profiles during specific time periods. For example, arts and culture groups saw month-over-month increases of 111% in January and 61% in February. And some donors filter their results to view organizations that have earned a Seal of Transparency.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 6, 2022

The webinar was led by TechSoup's own Shruti Ramaswami, joined by Microsoft's Catherine Devine, Business Strategy Leader, Libraries and Museums, at Microsoft Worldwide Education. On December 9, 2021, the team at TechSoup ran a webinar to explain what these changes mean for the public libraries we serve.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 23, 2014

A new company in New York, Museum Hack , is reinventing the museum tour from the outside in. They give high-energy, interactive tours of the Metropolitan Museum and the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH). The tours are pricey, personalized, NOT affiliated with the museums involved… and very, very popular.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 10, 2020

Nina Simon, Lauren Bentua, and many others would host us in the halls of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art. When we think about mapping these ideas onto an organization I think about how museum leadership can take these on personally as individuals (CEO, COO) and as departments (Human Resources, Education) and so on.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Forum One has partnered with NRDC to develop its website as well as additional digital assets, such as an immersive storytelling experience to celebrate the organization’s 50th anniversary in 2020 and an offshore drilling position tracking tool to help constituents easily find their legislators’ positions on offshore drilling.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2015

What do Millennials want from a museum experience? Museum development officers and marketing professionals are all wondering if members of the Millennial generation (born after 1979) will support museums like our parents did. The American Alliance of Museums (AAM) seems to think we won’t. The New York Times.

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VQ Strategies

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

collections or exhibit tours at museums, a fire fighting training center for a city, and the control tower at the – you guessed it – the airport [by now, we were all ready to sign up to volunteer at the airport!) Denver International Airport. CREATIVE GRATITUDE MESSAGES Social media posts Kudos cards (i.e.,

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Donorbox

APRIL 19, 2024

Whether your cause is an animal shelter, food bank, museum, or something else entirely, nonprofits can foster civic engagement, drive economic growth, and strengthen communities. Looking to start a nonprofit in Iowa? Starting a new nonprofit is a huge step.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

For libraries, heritage organizations, museums — and any other organization whose work is at its heart extremely physical — Zoom became a lifeline. You'd be hard-pressed to find someone who didn't rely on Zoom during times of restriction: We used it for everything from conferences to virtual happy hours to catch-ups with friends.

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Forum One

AUGUST 31, 2023

American Jazz Museum Best Arts Website Located in the Historic 18th & Vine Jazz District in Kansas City, MO, the American Jazz Museum showcases the sights and sounds of jazz through interactive exhibits and films and features live music in their venues, The Blue Room and Gem Theater. Department of Energy.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 28, 2020

When a board lacks digital savvy, it can’t get a handle on important elements of strategy and oversight and thus can’t play its critical role of helping guide the company to a successful future. ”. I recently discussed what it means to be a “museopreneur” in a feature article published by American Alliance of Museums.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 23, 2019

It’s 2019, and a whole lot is changing in the museum and nonprofit world. That’s not to mention how strained museums already are in terms of resources. According to the American Alliance of Museums, the average museum has 6 volunteers for every paid staff member , a ratio which s oars to 18:1 in museums with budgets under $250,000.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

After our complete closure on March 16, 2020 due to COVID-19 , our museum staff was busier than ever preparing to navigate these uncharted times. These guidelines helped frame the work needed for opening day. Our focus was to maintain a connection with the public and our members. Thursday: open 10 am to 8 pm. Co-Author: Carey Calhoon.

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JULY 13, 2012

Here’s our wrap-up of new, updated, and helpful apps for doing good. This week we’ve found apps from museums. Mobile apps are an interesting way for museums to advance their educational missions beyond people’s expectations. ArtClix from the High Museum of Art, Atlanta. MoMa by the Museum of Modern Art.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 6, 2021

Beecher Hicks III, President & CEO of the National Museum of African American Music (NMAAM) in Nashville, TN. NMAAM is the only museum dedicated to preserving and celebrating the many music genres created, influenced, and inspired by African Americans. Even though the museum is now open, the Museum Without Walls will continue.

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Candid

MAY 18, 2022

About a month ago, Candid was tagged in a social media post from someone who had visited the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. Rubenstein Curator of Philanthropy at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. We reached out to Amanda Moniz, Ph.D., the David M.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

The following post was originally published on the Center for the Future of Museums blog. On Wednesday, August 8, over 300 museum professionals joined CFM director Elizabeth Merritt and Seema Rao, principal of Brilliant Idea Studio , to explore self-care in the museum workplace. But effort and efficacy are not the same.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 26, 2013

That’s a lot of consumer spending power that when spent consciously can help finance nonprofits and good causes worldwide. Field Museum. Getty Museum. Metropolitan Museum of Art. Museum of Modern Art. BeadforLife Store. Best Friends Animal Society. DoGoodBuyUs. First Book. Global Goods Partners.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 19, 2014

Here are a few of the hashtags I''ve seen applied to photographs of museum objects on Instagram lately: #heytherebigfella #biggysmallistheillest #forbrightfuture #myfavorite #instagood #bestday #withmyhomies #whatever #learnedfromthebest #revolutionary #nowicandie These tags all do a great job capturing the magic of exploring a museum.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 1, 2014

Recently, we''ve been talking at our museum about techniques for capturing compelling audio/video content with visitors. It made me dig up this 2011 interview with Tina Olsen (then at the Portland Art Museum) about their extraordinary Object Stories project. We ended up with a gallery in the museum instead. That is more curated.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 1, 2023

18: International Museum Day — #MuseumDay. Fueled by a strong passion for the Internet, Heather spends her days (and some nights) helping nonprofits, charities, and NGOs worldwide utilize the internet as a tool for social good. 3: World Press Freedom Day — #WorldPressFreedomDay. 8: World Ovarian Cancer Day — #WOCD23.

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AUGUST 1, 2019

Museums and nonprofits can also reap huge benefits from employing artificial intelligence, particularly in their membership and development departments. Nonprofits and museums depend on dedicated, but oftentimes limited, development staff to sift through countless prospects to determine which ones are priority.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 1, 2022

There are billions of historical documents housed in archives, museums, and libraries around the world. However, with institutional support and the help of volunteers, these documents can be made available and searchable by anyone on the web. To help transcribe the remaining documents, please visit the Smithsonian Transcription Center.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 4, 2013

Is your museum running on interns? It is a strong, museum-focused complement to an excellent three-parter on Createquity about the ethics and future of unpaid arts internships. I got my first real job in a museum (at the Guggenheim) after a life-changing internship. It''s probably a path you had to navigate too.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 15, 2014

Gretchen Jennings convened a group of bloggers and colleagues online to develop a statement about museums'' responsibilities and opportunities in response to the events in Ferguson, Cleveland and Staten Island. Museums are a part of this educational and cultural network. Where do museums fit in? Here is our statement.

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