sgEngage

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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 26, 2013

The National Retail Federation is projecting that the average American holiday shopper will spend on $738 this holiday season generating more than $602 billion in total sales. That’s a lot of consumer spending power that when spent consciously can help finance nonprofits and good causes worldwide. Field Museum. First Book.

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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There are billions of historical documents housed in archives, museums, and libraries around the world.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

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

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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Forum One

MAY 23, 2024

Passing the design ball” on projects similarly builds skills amongst team members. While I was at the Philadelphia Museum of Art working on a website redesign, we recognized the need to be transparent with our internal audiences and started hosting a series of monthly open forum presentations called “Website Wednesdays.”

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Forum One

AUGUST 3, 2023

With that being said, we couldn’t be more proud to share some information about our dotComm Award winning projects. Forum One helped the AARP Livability Index meet the needs of their audiences with an easier-to-use website and accessible data that informs consumer and policy decisions nationwide. Endowed by Dr. Ruth J.

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

February is Black History Month in many countries in the United States and Canada, an annual observance dedicated to honoring and acknowledging the valuable contributions of Black people in both nations. Woodson believed that it was important to establish a theme to help focus the attention of the public.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 7, 2022

The arts and culture focus areas in this list include performing arts, artists, art education programs, museums, visual arts, and beyond. These organizations are currently offering grant and funding opportunities and/or accepting letters of inquiry or project ideas. . Learn more at the link above. Areas served: Worldwide. The Andrew W.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 20, 2019

Proceeds benefit Amnesty International, a nonprofit that works for the human rights of all people – no matter who they are or where they are. 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.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Explore the March of Dimes case study Smithsonian NMAAHC’s Freedmen’s Bureau Search Portal The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture’s Freedmen’s Bureau Search Portal now makes more than 400,000 pages of volunteer-transcribed records and previously-unavailable data sets accessible for anyone to search.

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Forum One

MAY 13, 2022

Honored for her experience helping mission-driven organizations accomplish impact through digital strategy, Molly Mattessich , Forum One’s Managing Director of Project Delivery, has been named to the Women We Admire list of Top 50 Women Leaders of Virginia. It’s wonderful to see Molly’s hard work and dedication recognized.

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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

JULY 23, 2014

But not enough people care about it anymore, and the museum is fading into disrepair. The Silk Mill is part of the Derby Museums , a public institution of art, history, and natural history. Many people would look at the world''s oldest mechanized silk mill and say that the core content of the museum is silk.

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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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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. Their own north-stars.

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Care2

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. Frogloop has you covered.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 10, 2020

This month's topic was about the people who make up the ecosystem of work. People holding collective gathering spaces are working hard to make the best call about how to proceed. And, then onto the people at work.this whole month's topic started, because of a colleague. Last week, I rambled about how work is a system.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 21, 2014

LinkedIn has a new feature where people can congratulate each other on work anniversaries. It has some of the same feel as the disconnected affection of people wishing you a happy birthday on Facebook, with professional reflection baked in. I helped them find funding and partners and time to make amazing work happen.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

Every day for the past two months, a man has entered the largest gallery in my museum. His project, Is It Necessary? It also complicates the question of what is acceptable in a museum. If an artist can come into a museum and smash stuff, what does that tell visitors? But art museums are coming back from the dead.

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Connection Cafe

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

JUNE 9, 2021

Since 1970, the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) has been working to safeguard the earth—its people, its plants and animals, and the natural systems on which all life depends. National Air & Space Museum. NRDC’s “Fighting Polluters Since 1970”. Canopus – Website for Environmental Awareness. The Vilcek Foundation.

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Award Colorado Drupal Museum 88

Museum 2.0

JUNE 25, 2014

A man walks into a museum. Two years ago, we mounted one of our most successful participatory exhibits ever at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History: Memory Jars. Over three months, about 600 people filled mason jars with personal memories and put them on display. THE BASICS The Memory Jar project was simple.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 24, 2020

For the last, some help with the path forward, I was recently asked to speak on a webinar. Many people more qualified than I joined the call as listeners. When I agreed, I honestly did it because I like the people who asked me—they’re good guys. It’s the way that people share their real feelings on social.

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Kindful

AUGUST 12, 2021

The arts and culture focus areas in this list include performing arts, artists, art education programs, museums, visual arts, and beyond. These organizations are currently offering grant and funding opportunities and/or accepting letters of inquiry or project ideas. . Learn more at the link above. Areas served: Worldwide. The Andrew W.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 11, 2012

I get excited about a lot of things in my work at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. That's how I felt when artist Ze Frank got in touch to talk about a potential museum exhibition to explore a physical site/substantiation for his current online video project, A Show (s ee minute 2:20, above).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2013

You can also look for colleague organizations that done a great job in a particular area and learn from them. Stowe Boyd wrote about this “ bench learning ” and there are a few examples from Aquariums and Museums. Social Media Benchmarking: Gauging Success for Project and Organizations in Global Health and Development.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Since 1970, the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) has been working to safeguard the earth—its people, its plants and animals, and the natural systems on which all life depends. The City Health Dashboard ’s goal is to improve the health and well-being of people in communities throughout the United States. I’m Determined.

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Tech Soup

JULY 18, 2017

Drawing from experience, we have a few ideas about why that could be, and how Drupal can help. The big problem is that most nonprofit web design projects are considered a one-time expense, instead of a long-term investment. It sets goals and expects that the investment will eventually enjoy returns that will help the company grow.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 2, 2012

Today is my one-year anniversary as the executive director of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. A year ago, I put my consultant hat on the shelf and decided to jump into museum management (a sentence I NEVER would have imagined writing five years ago). It is incredibly rewarding work. In the meantime, here are some of the.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 14, 2011

Dear Museum 2.0 As of May 2, I will be the executive director of the Museum of Art & History at McPherson Center in Santa Cruz, CA (here's the press release ). I am closing down my consulting business at the end of April, but the Museum 2.0 Here are a few things that make the MAH an exciting museum to me: It's small.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

This morning, I checked in on the Pocket Museums on our museum's ground floor. This simple participatory project invites visitors to contribute their own small objects in little alcoves in our bathrooms. But people have participated in completely different ways. The participation is almost 100% on-topic and appropriate.

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Forum One

MAY 27, 2021

Since 1970, the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) has been working to safeguard the earth—its people, its plants and animals, and the natural systems on which all life depends. The Frist Art Museum. The Frist Art Museum is a destination for art, culture, and community in the heart of Nashville, TN. City Health Dashboard.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Since 1970, the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) has been working to safeguard the earth—its people, its plants and animals, and the natural systems on which all life depends. The Frist Art Museum. The Frist Art Museum is a destination for art, culture, and community in the heart of Nashville, TN. Outstanding Website.

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Twenty Hats

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Right now I have a great project – I’m working with a museum client to create a Volunteer Engagement Strategic Plan. We’ll have an additional nine months to implement, assess, and adjust our priorities to meet the real life demands of the volunteers, the visitors, and the museum. Better still, the participants are motivated.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

We are posting short museum-based exercise videos each week. While it's a silly project, #museumfitness is also a small attempt to break down unproductive divisions between "art people" and "sports people." Some of my museum friends seem viscerally uncomfortable with athletics. Played beach volleyball.

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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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