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Celebrate, Educate, and Fundraise: Planning Winning AAPI Heritage Month Events

The Modern Nonprofit

But how do you ensure your events not only honor this rich heritage but also captivate and mobilize your community towards meaningful action? Well-planned events enable nonprofits, community groups, businesses and government agencies to showcase AAPI arts, food, performances, and more. Be sure to recruit knowledgeable facilitators.

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How Museum Hack Transforms Museum Tours: Interview with Dustin Growick

Museum 2.0

They were “preaching the museum gospel” in NYC via alternative tours at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. We interacted with the art and with each other through dynamic photo challenges, kinesthetic activities, and conversations. So I went on a tour…and experienced the museum in an entirely new way.

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Case Study: A Participatory Road Trip takes the SJMA on a Wild Ride

Museum 2.0

I was captivated by Chris Alexander 's story about participatory online/onsite efforts at the San Jose Museum of Art (SJMA). It is small and focused and highly repeatable (Chris and Lucy are producing a new YouTube series for the new exhibition on The Art of Cardboard ).

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Talking Through Objects: The Dog Analogy

Museum 2.0

You are the only active agent with an interactive. With a dog, you are both active agents, and the “interactivity” is social. If I approach you in a museum and ask what captivates you about the sculpture in front of us, you might look at me strangely and tell me you were just spacing out. Dogs are outwardly emotive.

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New Models for Community Partnerships: Museums Hosting Meetups

Museum 2.0

On 8.16.08, the Museum of Art and History (Santa Cruz, CA) hosted FreelanceCamp, a free unconference that brought 150 designers and techies from the south bay area together to talk shop. A few suggestions for how to think strategically about hosting them: Provide activities or offerings that align with your desired image.

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The 2016 - 2017 Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar

Everyaction

The Digital Media and Learning Conference is meant to be an inclusive, international and annual gathering of scholars and practitioners in the field, focused on fostering interdisciplinary and participatory dialogue and linking theory, empirical study, policy, and practice. National Arts Marketing Project Conference. 11/10/2016.