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The Top 54 Auctioneers for Nonprofit Fundraising Events

Nonprofit Tech for Good

With an impressive portfolio that includes collaborations with celebrities like Melissa McCarthy, Jimmy Fallon, Jerry Seinfeld, and recently teaming up with Oscar winner Brendan Fraser for a fundraising collaboration, Brett’s influence extends across the globe. She is also a 3rd generation auctioneer focusing on benefits.

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Year Three as a Museum Director. Thrived.

Museum 2.0

I''ve now been the executive director of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History for three years. I arrived in 2011 with the explicit directive to execute a turnaround. We talk a lot at our museum about empowering our visitors, collaborators, interns, and staff by making space for them to shine. Building an amazing team.

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Guest Post: Infusing “Social” into Social Justice Organizations

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Infusing Social Into Social Justice Organizations – Guest Post by Daniel Jae-Won Lee, Executive Director of the Levi Strauss Foundation. Time Magazine provocatively named “The Protester” as its 2011 “Person of the Year” for its riveting influence on last year’s social and political events.

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Guest Post: Community and Civic Engagement in Museum Programs

Museum 2.0

Stacey Marie Garcia came to the MAH first as a graduate intern in the summer of 2011. Museum programs need to then actively respond to their communities through a variety of ongoing discursive, collaborative and inclusive formats that address needs and assets but also invite communities to be active participants in this process.

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Which New Audiences? A Great Washington Post Article and its Implications about Age, Income, and Race

Museum 2.0

Executive Director Nina Simon, who was hired in 2011, says that in the years following the global financial crisis, the facility was struggling. “At The whole second half of the article was dedicated to our work: Smaller museums can be especially scrappy in finding ways to connect with the community.

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Dreaming of Perpetual Beta: Making Museums More Incremental

Museum 2.0

From 2006-2011, I focused almost entirely on #1 and #2, playing with ways to invite visitors to actively participate with professionals to co-create powerful experiences around museum objects. But in the past year and a half as a museum director, I find myself increasingly interested in #3 and #4. We scrounged for free couches.

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Our Museum: Extraordinary Resources on How Museums and Galleries Become Participatory Places

Museum 2.0

Dr. Bernadette Peters' provocative 2011 report, Whose Cake is it Anyway? And in several cases, the projects constituted "empowerment lite" for participants rather than true collaboration, co-creation, or transformation. Five years later, project director Dr. Piotr Bienkowski's final report for Our Museum tells a different story.

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