The Storytelling Non-profit

APRIL 18, 2022

When writing a story to raise money, an essential part of the story is a conflict. A problem or conflict in a story naturally builds a case for giving. However, many students and clients I work with compare their cause with others and doubt that they have a compelling enough conflict for a story.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 8, 2021

To mark its anniversary, NRDC launched an immersive storytelling experience featuring powerful stories and moments from the last 50 years. Our team partnered with NRDC to conceptualize how to capture these highlights in an engaging and informative story. Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts. The Frist Art Museum. I’m Determined.

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Forum One

JUNE 9, 2021

To mark its anniversary, NRDC launched an immersive storytelling experience featuring powerful stories from the last 50 years. Our team partnered with NRDC to conceptualize how to capture these highlights in an engaging and informative story. National Air & Space Museum. Canopus – Website for Cultural.

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Forum One

MAY 27, 2021

NRDC launched an immersive storytelling experience featuring powerful stories and moments from the last 50 years to mark its anniversary. Our team partnered with NRDC to conceptualize how to capture these highlights in an engaging and informative story. The Frist Art Museum. The Vilcek Foundation.

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The Modern Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Their stories, brimming with passion, resilience, and a rich cultural legacy, are deserving of more than just passive acknowledgment. Share Their Stories: Launch storytelling campaigns to showcase the success stories and challenges Latinos face in your community. Celebrate their contributions to local culture and economy.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 24, 2010

Last week, I visited the Wing Luke Asian Museum in Seattle. I've long admired this museum for its all-encompassing commitment to community co-creation , and the visit was a kind of pilgrimage to their new site (opened in 2008). I'm always a bit nervous when I visit a museum I love from afar. She told family stories.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

To mark its anniversary, NRDC launched an immersive storytelling experience featuring powerful stories and moments from the last 50 years. Our team partnered with NRDC to conceptualize how to capture these highlights in an engaging and informative story. The Frist Art Museum. Outstanding Website.

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Greater Giving

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Whether you’re representing a school, church, memorial, museum, hospital, sports team, or park, a brick fundraiser offers a unique and enduring way to engage supporters while leaving a lasting mark. Paid Advertising: Consider investing in paid advertising, such as social media ads or local media outlets.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 14, 2013

One of the greatest gifts of my babymoon is the opportunity to share the Museum 2.0 First up is Beck Tench, a "simplifier, illustrator, story teller, and technologist" working at the Museum of Life & Science in Durham, NC. As a person who works for a science museum, I work in an environment that supports play.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 26, 2022

Data is king: We have to know what our data is telling us so we can make decisions about how to allocate resources internally, measure our impact, and tell the stories that need to be told, on the right channel, at the right time, to the right people. Maybe a local school district cut its arts programs due to a lack of funding.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 26, 2022

Always be telling your story — and always be listening 4. Data is king: We have to know what our data is telling us so we can make decisions about how to allocate resources internally, measure our impact, and tell the stories that need to be told, on the right channel, at the right time, to the right people. Embrace partners 6.

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Forum One

JUNE 8, 2022

National Museum of African American History and Culture’s Talking About Race. Since 2014, Forum One has partnered with FNS to uncover and illustrate the most compelling stories emerging from the annual Farm to School Census, which collects and analyzes data on how 18,000 school districts are using local food.

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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

JANUARY 30, 2013

Mary Warner, the Museum Manager at the Historical Society, wrote a series of moving articles for her museum newsletter and later for the AASLH’s Small Museum Online Community about her experiences tackling big issues in a small museum. Really, it was about which stories we had good objects for.

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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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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

I’m looking for a place to donate in honor of my mother’s 90 th birthday, and a gift made to the local symphony orchestra in Myrtle Beach seemed like the right thing to do. You gravitated toward the museum, zoo, gallery, symphony, cultural management organization because of your roots. Fast forward to 2017.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 28, 2013

Earlier in 2013, I was amazed to visit one of the new “Studio” spaces at the Denver Art Museum. The Denver Art Museum is no stranger to community collaborations, but we’ve been dipping in our toe a little more deeply when it comes to developing permanent participatory installations.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 3, 2011

Lots of museums these days have video comment booths to invite visitors to tell their stories, but how many of those booths really deliver high-impact content? Last week, I talked with Tina Olsen, Director of Education and Public Programs at the Portland Art Museum, about their extraordinary Object Stories project.

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Cloud 4 Good

APRIL 21, 2022

During this time you’ll hear inspiring customer and trailblazer stories from speakers including Lorraine Orr, COO at Boys and Girls Club America, Darren Walker, President at the Ford Foundation, and Joan Garry, Principal at Joan Garry Consulting. Org, and David Ragones, SVP & GM, Nonprofit Cloud at Salesforce.org. .

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 11, 2011

Here are some ideas: Share Community History – Non-organizational community groups and nonprofits that focus on a specific locality can create hyperlocal community engagement through pictures and documentation. So how can social good organizations take advantage of an innovative tool like this?

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The Pacific Science Center (PacSci) is an independent, non-profit museum in Seattle with a mission to ignite curiosity and fuel passion for discovery, experimentation, and science for people of all ages and backgrounds. Pacific Science Center. GOLD – Science Website. Truman Scholarship Foundation. Gold – Government Website. The Harry S.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Have you ever been to a museum with no permanent exhibits ? On a recent trip to Chicago, I checked out the Museum of Contemporary Art. Plus, I know the next time I’m in Chicago, the museum will be a totally different experience, so I’m highly motivated to go back. Many museums and zoos offer summer camps for children.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 27, 2021

They take care of your facility, give tours of your museum, welcome attendees to your annual gala, and pass out medals at fundraising races. Additionally, board members often have high-level connections in business, education, or even local and state government. Collaborate with local businesses. Connect with civic groups.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 5, 2019

Geoffrey Dunn, a fabulous writer and collaborator, just published a big cover interview with me in our local weekly, the Good Times. I was proud to work with amazing colleagues to lead major change at the museum. For a museum to survive and thrive today, it must be relevant and meaningful for many people from many backgrounds.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 22, 2010

These are some thoughts on a very small museum called the Brazos Valley African American Museum. I was fortunate enough to visit it during the Texas Association of Museums conference, and it brought up some reactions and emotions that I wanted to share with you. It wasn’t even 100% clear which stories went with each photo.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Our county board of supervisors had brought their official meeting to the museum. The supervisors toured the exhibition with some of the 100+ local partners who helped create it. Then, for an hour, former foster youth who helped design the exhibition shared their stories with supervisors. Nine years later, I still believe this.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 24, 2021

Once you identify the message of your fundraising email, you can add the stories, photos, and videos that drive the message home. The mom has a job at a museum cafe, the older kids are in school, and the youngest attends a wonderful daycare center we are so fortunate to partner with. Jamie’s success story. Time to Write!

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 6, 2009

This post was written by Jaime Kopke , the founder/director of the Denver Community Museum , a pop-up community-generated institution that ran from Oct 2008-April 2009. The Denver Community Museum (DCM) was a grassroots operation in almost every sense. It did not matter if the memories/stories represented were real or imaginary.

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Qgiv

MARCH 30, 2022

She’s known for tackling seemingly impossible fundraising efforts and turning them into success stories. It was then that I began working at a local art museum as a volunteer. You can tell the story about your nonprofit’s work through its budget. Q: What are the best grant writing courses?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2014

“As Miami continues to evolve, Give Miami Day acts as a gateway for new members of the community to learn more about local causes they are passionate about and contribute to the overall success of our city,” said Miami Foundation CEO Javier Alberto Soto. Bahia Ramos, Knight Foundation’s director of community foundations, agreed.

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VQ Strategies

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

They did after 9/11, during the financial crisis in 2009, after local disasters, and they are doing so again. Once you have a few compelling pieces of research and your own organizational assessment and story of impact, the responsibility – and opportunity – to share it is on your shoulders. How have you pivoted? Make the Case.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 3, 2014

During a workshop on museum visitor participation, someone spoke up and objected: "this might work in California, but it will never work in Texas." I saw how participatory techniques were working in diverse museums around the world. In Asia, I''ve noticed museum visitors are willing--enthusiastic, even--to take photos with strangers.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

We did three things to supplement Belle''s paintings (installation shots here , peopled shots here ): We issued a call to locals who are immigrants, or whose family immigrated, to share an artifact and story with us. We mounted those objects and stories alongside visitor-contributed suitcases. The clotheslines were always full.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

In all scenarios, audiences experience the National Council impact story, strengthening the connection and interest they have in the institution and the important work it is doing. Pacific Science Center. Silver – Science Website. Support Children’s Colorado Foundation. Silver – Health Care Services Website. Participants?

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

In all scenarios, audiences experience the National Council impact story, strengthening the connection and interest they have in the institution and the important work it is doing. Pacific Science Center. Silver – Science Website. Support Children’s Colorado Foundation. Silver – Health Care Services Website. Participants?

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CauseVox

JUNE 9, 2021

The emails should include an emotional story , appropriate imagery, and a call to action that expresses urgency. Get local businesses involved for prize sponsorships, and make it a public, fun event that everyone can come and watch. It should include a need that has urgency, a story your donors can connect to, and a call to action.

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Tech Soup

JULY 13, 2015

The Mary Ball Washington Museum and Library (MBWML) was established in 1958 and named to honor the mother of America's first president. The museum and library preserves the rich history of the Northern Neck through its collections, exhibits, tours, and educational programs. Images: Mary Ball Washington Museum and Library.

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