Top Nonprofits

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Are there actions you can take now to bring people back? Our participants came from a variety of sectors including museums, advocacy, arts, religion, and education. Using virtual meeting tools, such as chats, polls, and game wheels to engage families and young children in ways beyond a “zoom call” online.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 24, 2021

Not the call to action (which needs to be clear and motivational). Then build the email so that every word, every image, every bit of formatting supports them to take that action. Your fundraising emails have ONE JOB: get people to take action. Nothing about your fundraising email should be left to chance. Time to Write!

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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?" Children of the Lodz Ghetto ).

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Museum Difference Participatory History 29

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 20, 2009

I'm working on a section of my book about sharing social objects and am writing about the most common way that visitors share their object experiences in museums: through photographs. Revenue Streams: Museums want to maintain control of sales of "officially sanctioned" images of objects via catalogues and postcards.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 15, 2020

But here are some of my reflections from this year in museum work: Camp Life: I came to camping late and through my children. The long-term ramifications of this year on museums will transform the field. What’s your museum trigger word? So, if you’re not quite ready to learn from 2020, that’s fine. Others didn’t.

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Neon CRM

JUNE 16, 2023

To see how this works in action, we can use a common scenario as an example. In one common scenario, a parent gets their children involved in an organization and that child continues their support into the next generation. Finally, you have her son Tim, who is 25 years old and works as a curator at a museum.

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Database Guide Nonprofit Gift 52

Connection Cafe

MARCH 16, 2020

While it’s not our place to predict the outcomes we might see in the wake of this virus, nor can we provide health or legal advice, we hope that offering the following ideas and resource s ( by no means a comprehensive guide ) might help you and your staff approach the COVID-19 situation with a degree of calm and a plan of action.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 16, 2019

Visitor (though, really my child) at the Maritime Museum, Greenwich, UK As I said, last week, I’ve been to a travelin’ girl for the last couple of years. So, instead, I am offering 3 posts this month about what I learned from visiting more than 300 museums. Last week, I talked about what I learned about museum workers.

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Neon CRM

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Members-as-Advocates The members-as-advocates membership model focuses on producing action behind a particular cause. This type of organization’s primary concern isn’t fundraising but advancing their cause through meaningful action, such as influencing policy change and mobilizing supporters to volunteer, advocate in court, etc.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 6, 2014

MuseumCamp is an annual professional development event at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History in which teams of diverse, creative people work on quick and dirty projects on a big theme. The goal was to explore new ways to measure "immeasurable" social outcomes like connectedness, pride, and civic action. How do you measure that?

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Experiment Impact Social Museum 52

NTEN

JULY 14, 2011

For the social web to come alive and really spark change, users need to be given other actions to take beyond standard sharing. We’re constantly exploring new and improved ways to mobilize communities; here are three sites that ask users to do more than simply hit share, but instead to take an action and to be part of something real.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 20, 2021

For example, last year I was delighted to receive an email from the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco including information informing supporters about new tax deduction benefits made possible through the CARES Act. For an example of how to share IRA gifting information with donors, see the Phoenix Children’s Foundation website. .

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Whole Whale

MARCH 29, 2022

Spring Into Action on the Equinox (March 20). Use the first day of spring as a call for volunteers, asking your supporters to “spring into action” on the first day of the new season. It’s also a time for gifts and new clothes, making this a great chance to raise funds or donations of new clothing, especially for children.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 27, 2013

I've written about different structures for participatory processes (especially in museums), and recently, I've been interested in how we can apply these structures to the design of public space. Children are easy to applaud, and easy to ignore. a school garden project) Children may still have a sense of real ownership of the project.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 2, 2018

This behavior can be identified by a person who says “yes”, but then undermines that statement with tongue-in-cheek comments or actions that can be described as sabotage. Disa McAlister, MNLM, is the founder of the Museum of Science and Sustainability, a portable museum serving the Greater Phoenix area. The culprit?

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Museum 2.0

JULY 9, 2009

Seb Chan has a lovely, long interview up at Fresh+New with Helen Whitty about the Powerhouse Museum's new mini-exhibition, the Odditoreum. The Odditoreum is another wrinkle in the study of visitors' understanding and interpretation of authenticity in museums. I enjoyed listening to it (virtually, not at the museum).

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Qgiv

JANUARY 4, 2022

Virtual tours for museums. Your local museums may not be open for admission, but that doesn’t mean you can’t explore all they have to offer. Partner with your local museums to offer virtual tours to your donors, complete with fun, educational facts and some behind-the-scenes action. Silent disco. VIP game packages.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 12, 2011

There's the barrier of the concern that this work is "social work" and not art--and therefore doesn't belong in a museum or a theater. He got to see the museum process from the inside. Almost 20 years later, Project Row Houses is a powerhouse organization combining art, civic action, public housing, and social change.

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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. Most of my work involves museums, but these categories can be useful in any project that involves user participation. I've purchase a two copies, one for me and one to give away. I’ve added one more category to the mix called hosted.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 4, 2012

Museums have been grappling with this question for years ( here's a 2007 roundup of such projects ), most aggressively in zoos and natural history museums where staff hope to inspire conservation and in history/concept museums that focus on civic engagement and activism. No small task for a museum exhibition.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 26, 2009

On a recent trip to DC, an old friend showed me around a new exhibit at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM), From Memory to Action: Meeting the Challenge of Genocide. It's a small space that features stories of recent and current genocides and encourages visitors to "take action" via an interactive pledge wall.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 28, 2020

Even in physics, every action has an equal and opposite reaction, right? Megan Smith incisively covered the sad state of staffing in the museum industry pre-coronavirus, as well as her fears for staffers post-coronavirus, in a previous post for Museum 2.0 , so I won’t belabor this one.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 15, 2008

The presumed answer is "yes" your museum needs a blog, a pony, or a set of comfy couches. Does your museum need a custom online social network? Many museums have been experimenting in these spaces by creating institutional profiles, museum affinity groups, and connecting with visitors and other museum professionals individually.

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Qgiv

MAY 26, 2021

Given that they were the children of the financial crisis of 2008-2009, they didn’t have the income to support significant giving. Our specialty is generating empathy for a cause and then using that empathy to convert someone to take action to support an organization. Q: What types of organizations do you work with?

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Florida Social Media Technique Indianapolis 52

Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

There are great examples of this kind of thing focusing solely on the participant--for example, the Chicago Children's Museum practice of inviting kids to write postcards home to themselves from the museum. These kinds of messages help people be more aware of how their actions impact others, helping them move from "me" to "we."

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Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2014

Pogo Park is transforming three neglected parks in Richmond California into magical play spaces for 8,000 at-risk children. Having grown out of the Chicano Movement of the 1970’s, it is still an activist organization that is leading collective action to reduce violence in the Mission district of San Francisco.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2010

The whole idea got started a year ago when James Leventhal who is Deputy Director for the Contemporary Jewish Museum asked me if I would design some trainings for the local arts community. Contemporary Jewish Museum. Trainings that involved “action learning&# together can be a powerful way to build social media capacity.

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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. Faith in Action used online giving for their year end campaign and had great success. It should include a need that has urgency, a story your donors can connect to, and a call to action. Donation Matching Drive.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

This month we’ve been thinking about “What is a museum?” (I'm I’ve been visiting museums my whole life. Does that make me the best judge of museums? People are the defining characteristics of museums. I’ve worked with and at plenty of museums that can sometimes feel empty. I'm not alone there.

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Tech Soup

JULY 16, 2013

In early education, children learn the fundamentals of reading and writing in order to communicate, collaborate, and contribute in the world. According to the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), a staggering 100 million Americans don't have a broadband connection in their households. The Role of Nonprofits.

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Digital Literacy Community Build 66

Connection Cafe

MAY 12, 2017

For example, ask them to “Give clean water”, “Feed hungry children”, “Stop human trafficking, etc. Ask for action. Seize the moment to ask for action! If you’re not sure what topics or events you should broadcast, check out this list of 35 Facebook Live ideas for museums, animal shelters, youth organizations, and more.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 8, 2011

Nikki created "The Ministry of Rules" --a shadow organization that existed for one week during half-term break, staffed by visitors who served as "Inspectors" investigating, exploring, and poking fun at the rules that make museums and galleries go. How did the museum staff respond to this experience? How did this project come about?

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Exhibit labels in science centers ask more questions than any other kinds of museums, and yet the questions are often awful--teacherly, overly rhetorical, and totally meaningless. asked by a cop or mother, garners the full attention of asker and askee alike, museum questions like "what is nanotechnology?,"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 3, 2008

but I couldn't find an extensive list of twenty-something bloggers who focus on nonprofits, social change, and social action. She covers nonprofit technology, social actions, and social change. His blog covers social technology, social action, philanthropy - with a UK perspective. Nonprofit Programs and Social Actions.

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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 13, 2017

She is an expert in developing and teaching practical, ready-made tools that inspire people to take action. Paul is also a children’s book author who collaborates with his twin brother and NY Times #1 Best-Selling Author/Illustrator, Peter H.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 2, 2009

How would you design a recommendation system for a museum? When it comes to museums, recommendation systems are a natural solution for the problem of the customized tour. When it comes to museums, recommendation systems are a natural solution for the problem of the customized tour.

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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 project took home six awards this year!

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