Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 12, 2011

There's the barrier of artistic quality--funders, trustees, or staff members who argue that work by non-canonical artists is not up to the standards of the institution. Reading the report, I kept thinking of Rick Lowe, the artist and community activist behind Project Row Houses in Houston.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2012

Chalk up my vote for 2011’s “Best Debut Artist” and “Best Supporting Actor.”. He leads the Foundation’s international grant making in four areas: confronting HIV/AIDS stigma and discrimination, advancing worker rights in the apparel industry, helping low-income people save and invest in their futures, and advancing social justice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

It is a useful technique for creating a more responsive, flexible organizational culture as well as coming up with more innovative ideas for programs and grants that are a good fit. Design thinking is a set of principles that includes—empathy with users, a discipline of prototyping, and tolerance for failure. Concept 2: Mission: Possible.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 24, 2011

In my experience, innovation is about flexibility, capacity, and collaborative relationships. Guard staff who are willing to let an artist step between two panes of glass to perform. It's easier to secure grants for community-based programming or exhibitions, but it's not easy to get funding for some of the core work that museums do.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 17, 2012

We invited local artists and community groups to perform. and we've tried to internalize a mindset of perpetual beta and modular support for community collaboration. We make room for interns and artists and people who walk in the door with crazy ideas. We scrounged for free couches. But we got it going anyway.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 8, 2012

A dynamic design team will include developers, designers, artists, strategists, community builders, researchers, and studies on the success or impact created through gameplay. (MB, Farmville and FoldIt (showing the architecture of the AIDS virus) are related in terms of collaboration, crowdsourcing solutions through social play. (JD).

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Bloomerang

APRIL 7, 2022

The following organizations currently offer grant and funding opportunities for women and/or accept letters of inquiry or proposals. Amber Grant Foundation. Amber Grant Foundation. Historically for female entrepreneurs, the Amber Grant can now be awarded to female-led nonprofit organizations with vision and passion.

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Kindful

MARCH 5, 2021

The following organizations currently offer grant and funding opportunities for women and/or accept letters of inquiry or proposals. Amber Grant Foundation. Amber Grant Foundation. Historically for female entrepreneurs, the Amber Grant can now be awarded to female-led nonprofit organizations with vision and passion.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Its funding has skyrocketed as major foundations and technology companies have made multi-million dollar grants and investments in its growth. Many museums produce superb lesson plans, curator interviews and artist interviews for the web. Its multilingual videos have reached almost 200 million viewers since it launched in 2006.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

You can collaborate with other nonprofits in your region or in your issue area to investigate whether you can all offer benefits for each other. Same for any grants, regrants, mini-grants, or loans you offer. Sometimes a nonprofit has access to world-class chefs, celebrities, artists, or architects or well-known lawmakers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 1, 2009

Social media, in particular, offers a day-to-day alternative to annual reports, press releases and grant reports in showing direct impact in a consistent, immediate way. The same constructs which were discussed around combating issue fatigue can be used in creating a cultural movement around an issue.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

What happens when a formal art museum invites a group of collaborative, participatory artists to be in residence for a year? Will the artists ruin the museum with their plant vacations and coatroom concerts? Will the bureaucracy of the institution drown the artists in red tape? No, this is not a reality TV show.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

This role is more about providing London's non-profit sector with a for ICT issues and getting policy-makers and funders to recognise that investing in the ICT of non-profit organisations can actually achieve lots of positives - transforming organisations to work smarter and better, better collaboration and information sharing, and so on.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 3, 2011

The project arose from a grant announcement from MetLife Foundation around community engagement and outreach. There hasn’t been a history of collaboration between the museum and the film center and we wanted the chance to partner more deeply, and build a platform where we could continue to do so. So what did you do next?

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 8, 2010

That means we collect university press, handmade artist books, zines made by sixth graders, poetry chapbooks from big names published in tiny local presses, and self-published poetry chapbooks sold for a dollar on the street. You go online, and that’s why physical culture is at risk.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 31, 2009

I got the grant about a year ago, and then it took us about four to five months to get up and running. The other one I'd say is, I'm a big believer in collaboration, and the future of journalism is collaboration. I often say that, "Collaboration is queen." That said, collaboration is always; it's very tricky.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 27, 2008

The groups can use three different approaches: physical, artistic, or traditional word presentation. Not only does the activity support local artists, it challenges how outsiders and insiders engage with each other and share knowledge in a conference setting. But will the conversations improve the overall experience?

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

And that might involve collaboration, saying, “We acknowledge that there are others in the community that do this better or more effectively. Robin’s asking, “Writing a grant, how can you report impact and add measures to success with looking for funding for a pilot program?” Grant proposals.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Granted, I live in an increasingly narrow world of people who are exploring these topics and want me to work with them, but I still learn a lot from the questions and struggles I hear from colleagues and people who comment on the blog. Feel free to add your own questions and answers in the comments!

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

Granted, I live in an increasingly narrow world of people who are exploring these topics and want me to work with them, but I still learn a lot from the questions and struggles I hear from colleagues and people who comment on the blog. Feel free to add your own questions and answers in the comments!

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Tech Soup

JUNE 7, 2012

It employs volunteer artists who use the arts as a tool for healing. Organizations should also consider repurposing emails, newsletter content, press releases, or sections of grant reports. The success of Project Hope Art's blog has come from understanding what their audience wants and how to move them to action.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 16, 2020

At large, I am proud of the countless hours of cross-departmental and community collaborations that will inspire me forever, hand-in-hand with colleagues who have invested their best efforts on behalf of the people we are committed to serving. Both projects received awards by AAM.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 9, 2016

Collaborative Overload: Collaborative overload is the burnout that results from over use of e-mails, meetings and other collaborative tools that have, ironically, limited our ability to get stuff done. The term was coined by Rob Cross, Adam Grant, and Reb Rebele in this HBR article. Artist Tiles.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

About $500,000 came from unnamed individuals in the early days and in September 2010, Omidyar Network announced a grant of up to $750,000. Its also valuable for small business, artists, and much more. .”- Chris Hughes Jumo has been raising $2 million in funding from individuals and foundations.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 9, 2007

But last week, I took a new job with The Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose, working on a very different kind of project involving collaborative distributed exhibit design. The Open Source Museum project at The Tech is a grant-funded grand experiment. So what does this collaborative platform look like?

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 4, 2010

"To us, it's really about collaboration. This was a collaboration among several organizations, A Single Drop, Crabgrass, ProNet Accra, and Women's Earth Alliance. These women are going to be partnering with the teams who are going back into their communities with seed grants to launch their projects.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 17, 2007

It's an opportunity to see how something is made, to un-take-for-granted the way it works. They were working on a build collaboratively, with one person's computer hooked up to a digital projector, so Second Life was about 4x6 ft on our wall. It involves me, even as an onlooker, in the process. We were there before the record wins.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

BB: What advice do you have for artists who want to use their art for social change? Another thing that I have tried very hard to do is to make my books, not mine , but the result of real collaboration with the people whom I am photographing, and whose work I am documenting. I would never ask that question.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 1, 2006

We've been friends since we were seven, so we already had a very long collaborative history. Louis is a traditional artist and I was in the journalism field. Jonah: I started Free Range with a friend of mine, Louis Fox, when we were 22 years old. We wanted to combine our talents and felt graphic design would be a good place to start.

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